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Essentials of Systems Analysis and Design, 2/E
Joseph S. Valacich, Washington State University
Joey F. George, Florida State University
Jeffrey A. Hoffer

ISBN-10: 0131016059
ISBN-13: 9780131016057

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2004
Format: Paper; 496 pp
Published: 03/03/2003

This item has been replaced by Essentials of System Analysis and Design, 4/E.

Written Primarily for undergraduates in CIS and MIS programs.

This briefer text is particularly appropriate for SAD courses where a streamlined approach is necessary due to lab assignments, projects, contact time, and/or outside reading requirements.

System Development Life Cycle Framework—The SDLC, central in the development of an information system.
- Provides the students with a strong conceptual and systematic framework. Each chapter opens with an SDLC figure and shows how each step of the SDLC builds on each other. This text uses a 4 step SDLC.

ECommerce issues explored—In the running case, Pine Valley Furniture WebStore.
- Beginning in Chapter 3 the authors explore how a team of Analysts work together to develop, propose, implement, and maintain a WebStore.

CASE Technology—Used throughout the text to illustrate typical systems analysis and design documents and CASE (computer-aided software engineering)-based systems development is discussed.

Broadway Entertainment Company, Inc. —This end-of-chapter case illustrates how a fictional video and record retailer develops a web-based customer relationship management system. This case first appears at the end of chapter 2 and concludes at the end of chapter 10.

Electronic Commerce and Internet Application Development Coverage—Offered in each chapter via an integrated illustrative case (Pine Valley), end-of-chapter case (Broadway Entertainment Company, Inc.) and a margin feature.

Net Search—The CW www.prenhall.com/valacich includes links to sites noted in the Net Search exercises found in the text's margins—in addition to an online Study Guide, Student Resources and Instructor downloads.

Text can be packaged with Visible Analyst, Oracle 9i, MS Visio, or MS Project, or Systems Architect.

I. FOUNDATIONS FOR SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT.

1. The Systems Development Environment.

2. Managing the Information Systems Project.

II. SYSTEMS PLANNING AND SELECTION.

3. Systems Planning and Selection.

III. SYSTEMS ANALYSIS.

4. Determining System Requirements.

5. Structuring System Requirements: Process Modeling.

6. Structuring System Requirements: Conceptual Data Modeling.

7. Selecting the Best Alternative Design Strategy.

IV. SYSTEMS DESIGN.

8. Designing the Human Interface.

9. Designing Databases.

V. SYSTEMS IMPLEMENTATION AND OPERATION.

10. Systems Implementation and Operation.

Appendix A: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design.

Appendix B: Rapid Application Development and CASE Tools.

References.

Glossary of Acronyms.

Glossary of Terms.

Index.

Systems Analysis and Design (Computer Science)

Essentials of System Analysis and Design, 4/E
Valacich, George & Hoffer
©2009 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 464 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0136084966 | ISBN-13: 9780136084969
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For undergraduate and graduate course in structured systems analysis and design.

This text is a briefer version of the authors’ successful Modern System Analysis and Design, designed for courses seeking a streamlined approach to the material due to course duration, lab assignments, or special projects. It features the “systems development life cycle model” which is used as an organizing tool throughout the book.

CourseCompass, 2/E
Valacich
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WebCT, 2/E
Valacich
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ISBN-10: 0131400436 | ISBN-13: 9780131400436
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Interwrite Personal Response System
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Companion Website - Valacich, 2/E
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ISBN-10: 013140038X | ISBN-13: 9780131400382
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