Includes index.

Contents: Information systems in the digital age: Business information systems in your career -- E-Business: how businesses use information systems -- Achieving competitive advantage with information systems -- Information technology infrastructure: IT infrastructure: hardware and software -- Achieving competitive advantage with information systems -- Telecommunications, the internet, and wireless technology -- Securing information systems -- Key system applications for the digital age: Achieving operational excellence and customer intimacy: enterprise applications -- E-Commerce: digital markets, digital goods -- Improving decision making and managing knowledge -- Building and managing systems: Building information systems and managing projects -- Ethical and social issues in information systems.