A Management Approach to Database Applications - Softcover

Avison, David; Cuthbertson, Christine

 
9780077097820: A Management Approach to Database Applications

Synopsis

By describing database applications within the context of industry and commerce, the authors provide an understanding of practical issues designed to serve the student well in their professional career. The book also includes material relevant to database applications development at all levels from a home PC to large-scale corporate database structures. It covers all aspects of database applications including modeling and development, hardware and software environments, and management and human resource issues. Although there is emphasis on web-related technologies, the text also addresses issues raised in call-centres, ERP systems, GIS, and in data warehousing and mining.

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Synopsis

"A Management Approach to Database Applications" takes the best aspects of David Avison's earlier text and combines them with a new approach and new material. By presenting the mathematics required in a clear and palatable manner with solid management and IS content, "A Management Approach to Database Applications" is suitable for a range of degree courses. More than four-fifths of the text is new and designed to facilitate cross-discipline learning between Computer Science, Information Systems, Business or Management students.

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