Information Technology in Action: Trends and Perspectives (Yourdon Press Computing Series) - Hardcover

Wang, Richard Y.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0132210290 ISBN 13: 9780132210294

Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR, 1993

Synopsis

The experts agree: The best way to understand the IT industry is to listen to the leading practitioners who put IT into action. Now, in one volume, Dr. Richard Y. Wang has elicited from the top IT players their perspectives on this rapidly changing industry.
Information Technology in Action: Trends and Perspectives provides readers with a general understanding of the IT industry, a good sense of its emerging trends, and a broad understanding of the driving forces shaping the IT industry. Written by an expert, each chapter explores an individual area impacting IT, including the entity-relationship approach, distributed and client/server DBMS, object databases in action, CASE and application development technologies, database computers, massively parallel processing, developing strategic business systems using object technology, visual information access systems, towards total data quality management, the media's perspective, the investor's perspective, the consultant's perspective, the CIO's perspective and more.
Information Technology in Action: Trends and Perspectives is a must-read for anyone interested in IT.

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Synopsis

Offers a presentation of the trends and perspectives of the industry written by well-known industry participants. This work includes coverage of the ER approach, the object database in action, visual access systems and data quality management.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0132210290
• ISBN 13: 9780132210294
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288