eBook By Category (Information Systems)

When you invest in expensive technology and systems, you want to get the most out of them...

This book focuses on recent developments in representational and processing aspects of complex data-intensive applications...

Advances in the Economics of Information Systems provides a wide perspective on the issues related to applications of economics to information systems area...

Distributed business component computing--the assembling of business components into electronic business processes, which interact via the Internet--caters to a new breed of enterprise systems that are flexible, relatively easy to maintain and upgrade to accommodate new business processes, and relatively simple to integrate with other enterprise systems...

This is an A-Z compendium of over 200 information technology terms written for the non-technical executive...

In any software design project, the analysis stage - documenting and designing technical requirements for the needs of users - is vital to the success of the project...

Information security teams are charged with developing and maintaining a set of documents that will protect the assets of an enterprise from constant threats and risks...

Building and Managing Enterprise-Wide Portals discusses the technology behind portals and grid networks, gives information to the history behind grid technology evolution, and supplies the reader with the knowledge to make qualified managerial decisions...

Many organizations are already well equipped to implement successful business intelligence (BI) decision-support applications, such as data warehouses, data marts, and other business analytics applications...

Cases on Information Technology Planning, Design and Implementation brings together a variety of real-life experiences showing how other companies and organizations have successfully, or not so successfully, planned, designed, and implemented different applications using information technology...

From the senior management to the clerical and support group levels, this study addresses the possible pitfalls and triumphs of implementing information technology (IT) into organizations in terms of organizational strategies, structures, and communication methods...

When designing an information system, conceptual modeling is the activity that elicits and describes the general knowledge the system needs to know...

Conceptual modeling has always been one of the cornerstones for information systems engineering as it describes the general knowledge of the system in the so-called conceptual schema...

The world moves on Critical Information Infrastructures, and their resilience and protection is of vital importance...

While implementing IS and IT in support of their business strategies, companies are looking for ways to bridge the gap between their competitive position and technological investment, including ways to use this investment to the advantage of the organization...

Design of Industrial Information Systems presents a body of knowledge applicable to many aspects of industrial and manufacturing systems...

E-Health Care Information Systems is a comprehensive collection written by leading experts from a range of disciplines including medicine, health sciences, engineering, business information systems, general science, and computing technology...

Healthcare, a vital industry that touches most of us in our lives, faces major challenges in demographics, technology, and finance...

The Encyclopedia of Information Systems provides essential answers to questions increasingly asked by people in all walks of life...

Based on an extensive research project done by the author in the United States, Britain, Germany, France, Switzerland, Sweden, and Austria from December 1999 to June 2001, Enterprise Architecture and New Generation Information Systems focuses on four main themes: · Next Generation Information Technology · The Likely Technologies of this Decade · Enterprise Computing · The Internet as the 21st Century's Answer to Merchandising While the majority of books presently available on information systems are written from the viewpoint of system analysis, programming, or common applications, this text: · Brings to the reader's attention the importance of organization and infrastructure · Presents a wealth of case studies to explain the need for reengineering and restructuring · Details the latest advances which influence the implementation of advanced technology Written in a simple, comprehensive manner without specific prerequisites and data processing jargon, with concepts and case studies properly explained, this book addresses itself to practitioners in computer technology, telecommunications and software development, who are interested in acquiring skills through knowledge of the most advanced applications, tools, and methods, both present and coming...

Enterprise Information Systems Assurance and System Security: Managerial and Technical Issues brings together authoritative authors to address one of the most pressing challenges in the IT field – how to create secure environments for the application of technology to serve future needs...

The purpose of the 5th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS'2003) was to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the advances and business applications of information systems...

The sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS) held in Porto in 2004, brought together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the advances and business applications of information systems...

The adoption of Information Technology (IT) and Information Systems (IS) represents significant financial investments, with alternative perspectives to the evaluation domain coming from both the public and private sectors...

This important Handbook provides a unique overview of information systems (IS) research by focusing on the increasing interest in critical-related issues...

Web information systems engineering resolves the multifaceted issues of Web-based systems development; however, as part of an emergent yet prolific industry, Web site quality assurance is a continually adaptive process needing a comprehensive reference tool to merge all cutting-edge research and innovations...

This volume offers a comprehensive overview of architectures, languages, methods, and techniques for analysing, modelling, and constructing information systems in organisations...

The handbook's goal is to enable the reader to gain a deep understanding of past, current and future research and applications in the field of educational technology...

This Handbook contains surveys of state-of-the-art concepts, systems, applications, best practices as well as contemporary research in the intersection between IT and finance...

This is the only book that covers all the topics that any budding security manager needs to know! This book is written for managers responsible for IT/Security departments from mall office environments up to enterprise networks...

A spectacular dialogue of the deaf has been on-going for many years...

Tourism is one of the leading industries worldwide...

In today's competitive environment, manufacturing and service companies are intensifying their customization processes...

Geared for managers and business practitioners operating in a web-centric environment, this text presents the most current research on information management in conjunction with support systems and multimedia technology...

nformation Security Policies and Actions in Modern Integrated Systems is an overview of current research in theoretical and practical aspects of security in distributed systems, in particular in information systems and related security tools...

Despite people's best efforts information systems are particularly prone to failure...

Discussion of the precise nature of the Information System discipline has raged for more than twenty years and continues fiercely today...

Information Systems and Data Compression presents a uniform approach and methodology for designing intelligent information systems...

This volume is comprised of the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Systems Development held August 26th-28th, 2004, at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania...

When an IT project goes wrong, everyone wants to blame the project manager...

The strategic importance of information systems is now widely accepted, and over the last three decades these systems have received considerable investment...

Information Technology for Management 7/e prepares students how to take an active role in the design, use, and management of information systems and technology by providing a broad treatment of issues relating to an organization, the technology used, and how systems are developed...

A completely revised update of the First Edition, this book focuses exclusively on outsourcing information technology—such as data processing, computer systems, and specialized software programs—essentially an intellectual property transaction...

Organizations enjoy two kinds of strategic advantages...

On September 11, 2001 the World became completely cognizant of the security challenges it faces on an international scale...

This book introduces the inter-organizational information system for managing inter-organizational activities of virtual organizations, extended enterprises, and trans-enterprise systems...

IT management and staff are called upon to perform the almost-impossible tasks of evaluating, purchasing, integrating, and maintaining complex IT systems, and directing these systems to meet the ever-changing goals of an organization...

The forces of Lean and Information Technology are complementary...

Legal Programming: Designing Legally Compliant RFID and Software Agent Architectures for Retail Processes and Beyond provides a process-oriented discussion of the legal concerns presented by agent-based technologies, processes and programming...

Managing Corporate Information Systems Evolution and Maintenance addresses the recent developments of systems maintenance research and practices ranging from technicality of systems evolution to managerial aspects of the topic...

Recent years have witnessed an increase in the use of information technology in manufacturing, so much so that it has rapidly permeated the organization at every level...

Mass customization is a business strategy aimed at satisfying an individual customers needs with near mass production efficiency...

Currently, there is neither a commonly-accepted definition of information systems (IS) quality nor a convergence of perspectives on quality approaches...

Medical Informatics and biomedical computing have grown in quantum measure over the past decade...

The nature of governance is rapidly changing, due to new technologies which expand public sector capabilities...

This handbook gives an overview on engineering of business information systems with agent technology...

Outsourcing is currently one of the hottest topics in business practices and in particular in the field of management information systems (MIS) education...

Taking the recent discussions on the status of information systems as a discrete discipline as its starting point, The Past and Future of Information Systems draws together many of the pioneers of IS research, to give their own perspectives and insights to the debate...

Information systems have five main areas of research and practice in which humans relate to information and communications technology...

A unifying foundation to design and implement process-aware information systems This publication takes on the formidable task of establishing a unifying foundation and set of common underlying principles to effectively model, design, and implement process-aware information systems...

The book brings together recent qualitative research studies in enterprise-wide implementations...

Published in conjunction with the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), Statistical Applications for Health Information Management, Second Edition covers the basic biostatistics, descriptive statistics, and inferential statistics that are unique to health information management (HIM)...

Strategic Planning for Information Systems explores the impact that information systems (IS) and information technology (IT) have on business performance and the contribution that they make to the strategic options of organisations...

The material collected in Technologies for Business Systems covers a broad range of applications of computer science methods and algorithms in business practice...

Technology Paradise Lost View Larger Image Erik Keller Manning Publications, Hardcover, Published April 2004, 243 pages, ISBN 1932394133 List Price: $24...

Terrorism informatics has been defined as the application of advanced methodologies, information fusion and analysis techniques to acquire, integrate process, analyze, and manage the diversity of terrorism-related information for international and homeland security-related applications...

Information systems (IS) are the backbone of any organization today, supporting all major business processes...

• “This book clearly shows how today’s industry pressures and business challenges mandate renewal of the contract between organizations and their IT assets and people–and it illustrates how a service-oriented approach to IT can help organizations go through the necessary transformation...

This interdisciplinary text gives a full, coherent, and up-to-date account of the modern theory of neural information processing systems...

Intelligent systems are necessary to handle modern computer-based technologies managing information and knowledge...

The concept of content delivery has become increasingly more important due to rapidly growing demands for efficient distribution and fast access of information from the Internet...