Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Information systems -- Strategy and information systems -- Business information technology -- Distributed systems, networks and the organization -- The Internet and the world wide web -- Electronic commerce and business -- Decision support and end user computing -- File organization and databases for business information systems -- Information systems: control and responsibility -- Information systems development: an overview -- The Systems project: early stages -- Process analysis and modeling -- Systems design -- Detailed design, implementation and review -- Systems development: further tools, techniques and alternative approaches -- Expert systems and knowledge bases.

"Business Information Systems 5th edition offers today's BIS students a comprehensive understanding of how information systems can aid the realisation of business objectives." "Equipped with a wide variety of long, short and extended case studies from across the UK and Europe as well as examples, review questions and exercises throughout the text, students can easily check their understanding and see how their new-found knowledge applies to real-world situations."--BOOK JACKET.