Brief Contents: PART 1 THE TOOL FOR NEW CAREERS: 1. The Computer Solution: End-Users and the Informations Age, 2. Overview of Business Information Systems and Computer systems: How the Two can Work Together; PART 2 THE USE OF SOFTWARE: 3. Personal Software You Can Use: Word Processing, Speardsheets, Data Base, Graphics, Communications, Integrated, and Other Packages, 4. Applications, Software Development Making the Computer Work for You, 5. Programming languages: The Different Ways of Communicating with the Computer; PART 3 THE USES OF HARDWARE AND TECHNOLOGY: 6. Input and Output: Problems In, Solution Out, 7. Processors and Operating Systems: Report from Behind the Scene, 8. Storage and File Organization: Facts at Your Fingertips, 9. Data Base Management System: Facts Every Which Way, 10. Network and Data Communications: Bringing Us together; PART 4 COMPUTER-BASED INFORMATION SYSTEMS: 11. Systems Analysis : Putting Things in Order, 12. Systems Design and Implementations: The New Look, 13. Transaction Processing Information Systems: Keeping Track of Detail 14 Management Information Systems and Decisions Support Systems: Making Information Useful to Managers, 15. Arificial Intelligence and Expert Systems: Wisdom in a Machine; PART 5 THE REWARDS AND RISK OF THE INFORMATION AGE : 16. Managing Information Resources: More Integration, More Ease, More Power, 17 Privacy, Security, and Ethics: Keeping Information Safe, 18. The Future: Information - The Main Resource.//yeni