Product Description: Business Information Systems provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to information systems and their application in organisations.   Essential elements:• Business-focused – concise but comprehensive coverage of the core material for business students• Grounded in theory – provides a strong foundation in the subject• Coherent and integrated – builds concepts systematically, showing the connections between subjects and leading to a more sophisticated understanding of how different areas interrelate• Fully up-to-date – with the latest developments and cutting edge ideas from the field• Practical – demonstrates the application of theory to real-world situations through over 30 specially-written case studies with global appeal plus new online 'Careers in IS' videos • Supported – by a vast array of quality resources online at www...read more

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Product Description: This fantastic jigsaw storybook includes six puzzles with press-out pieces that neatly fit back into the book to be used again and again.

Product Description: Signs are critically important in all forms of activity, including business, because they establish what it is to be human. Without signs we could not think, we could not communicate what we think and we could not ensure that we collaborate together in our work, home and leisure...read more

Most modern-day organizations have a need to record data relevant to their everyday activities and many choose to organize and store some of this information in an electronic database. This text is an introduction to modern database technology and the development of database systems.

Product Description: Knowledge engineering has always been portrayed as remote from most other disciplines relating to information systems. This book recognizes that knowledge engineering is in fact an important part of the information systems regime and demonstrates the practical application of this methodology to industry...read more

Product Description: This text provides a pragmatic discussion of relational database design and offers a rounded introduction to the vast amount of material written on the subject. It discusses the application of a set of graphic techniques for the analysis and design of database systems...read more

Product Description: This book has been designed as a tutorial guide to relational databases. The text contains illustrative examples, problems and sample solutions and a detailed case study. The approach emphasizes the practical applications of relational databases...read more