Introduction to Information Systems: An Internetworked Enterprise Perspective - Hardcover

O'Brien, James A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0256251967 ISBN 13: 9780256251968

Publisher: Irwin Professional Publishing, 1998

Synopsis

This alternative edition of "Introduction to Information Systems, 8/e" has an added focus on Internet and telecommunications technology (such as intranets, extranets and Java), and includes a five-part continuing case study on business on the Internet, which runs throughout the book.

About this title

From the Publisher

2 brand new chapters 6 - The Internet and Electronic Commerce and 7 - Intranets, Extranets, and Electronic Collaboration;
All new real world cases (2 per chapter) and real world problems (4 per chapter) from 1997 sources like Computerworld, Fortune, and other business/IT publications. O'Brien vs. competition always has the most up-to-date and current case material;
All new 5-part continuing real world case found at the end of each module called Business on the Internet, featuring companies like Amazon.com books, Yahoo, Excite, and others.
Simple five-level framework - as with all O'Brien texts, the 2nd Alt. Ed. is organized around the five-level framework (foundation concepts, technology, applications, development, management) that emphasizes the IS knowledge a managerial end user needs to know.
Distributes and integrates IS theory throughout, instead of concentrating it in early chapters.

About the Author

James A. O'Brien (Haiku, HI) is a professor at Northern Arizona University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Irwin Professional Publishing
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0256251967
• ISBN 13: 9780256251968
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 639