Description

For undergraduate and graduate systems analysis and design courses.

This Global Edition has been edited to include enhancements making it more relevant to students outside the United States

Modern Systems Analysis and Design uses a practical, rather than technical, approach to help students learn the methods and principles of systems development. This text covers the concepts, skills, methodologies, techniques, tools, and perspectives essential for systems analysts to successfully develop information systems.

Teaching and Learning Experience
This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience—for you and your students. It provides:

• Fully Engaged Students : Three fictional cases illustrate connections.
• A Clear Understanding of Systems Development: The authors use the systems development life cycle (SDLC) model as an organizing tool throughout the text.
• Better Critical Thinking: A traditional, linear approach to teaching systems analysis and design.

Features

• NEW! A new appendix on business process modeling (Appendix 7D) based on the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), which is maintained by the Object Management Group (although BPMN is not part of UML).
• NEW! A new section on Microsoft’s Security Development Life Cycle (Chapter 1) has been added.
• NEW! A new section on choosing the right enterprise resource planning (ERP) system (Chapter 2) has been added.

A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT

• The Systems Development Life Cycle. The authors use the systems development life cycle (SDLC) model as an organizing tool throughout the book to provide students with a strong conceptual and systematic framework. The SDLC in this edition has five phases and a circular design.
• Object-Orientation Approach. This text has retained its approach by keeping object-orientation in brief appendices after related chapters. This separation allows instructors who are not teaching object-orientation to bypass the subject, while helping instructors who want to expose their students to this approach to do so with minimal effort.

New to this Edition

NEW! The Broadway Entertainment Company end-of-chapter case has been replaced with Petrie’s Electronics (following all chapters except 1 and 14), which focuses on finding an existing system and adapting it to the company’s needs.
NEW! A new appendix on business process modeling (Appendix 7D) based on the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), which is maintained by the Object Management Group (although BPMN is not part of UML).
NEW! A new section on Microsoft’s Security Development Life Cycle (Chapter 1) has been added.
NEW! A new section on choosing the right enterprise resource planning (ERP) system (Chapter 2) has been added.
UPDATED! Throughout the book, the content in each chapter has been updated where appropriate:

• Expanded coverage of cloud computing (Chapter 2).
• Revised information on the information services (IS)/information technology job market (Chapter 1).
• Updated table on the top 10 software companies in the world. (Chapter 2)
• Updated information about the various aspects of the global software industry. (Chapter 2)
• Updated examples of system implementation failure and the leading security risks companies have reported. (Chapter 13)
• All screenshots come from current versions of leading software products.
• Throughout the book, figures, tables, and related content have been updated and refreshed.

Table of Contents

I. FOUNDATIONS FOR SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT
2. The Origins of Software
3. Managing the Information Systems Project
Appendix: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design: Project Management

II. PLANNING
4. Identifying and Selecting Systems Development Projects
5. Initiating and Planning Systems Development Projects

III. ANALYSIS
6.  Determining System Requirements
7.  Structuring System Process Requirements
Appendix 7A: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design: Use Cases
Appendix 7B: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design: Activity Diagrams
Appendix 7C: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design: Sequence Diagrams
Appendix 7D: Business Process Modeling
8. Structuring System Data Requirements
Appendix: Object-Oriented Analysis and Design: Object Modeling–Class Diagrams

IV. DESIGN
9.  Designing Databases
10. Designing Forms and Reports
11. Designing Interfaces and Dialogues
12. Designing Distributed and Internet Systems

V. IMPLEMENTATION AND MAINTENANCE
13. System Implementation
14. Maintaining Information Systems