Information technology lives all around us - in how we communicate, how we do business, how we shop, how we learn, even how we register for classes. Smart phones, iPods, PDAs, and wireless devices dominate our lives, and yet it'ss all too easy to take information technology for granted.

Now, Rainer, Turban, and Potter's Introduction to Information Systems helps make information technology come alive in the classroom. This text takes students where IT lives - in today's businesses and in our daily lives - and helps them undersyand how valuable information technology is to their future carers. Throughout, the text connects IT to accounting, finance, marketing, human resources, and operations, so students can discover how critical IT is to each functional area and every businesses.



Table of Contents:

Chapter 1 Information Systems: Concepts and Management

1.1 Information Systems: Concepts and Definitions

1.2 Types of Information Systems

1.3 Examples of Information systems

1.4 Managing Information Resources

1.5 The Plan of This Book

Chapter 2 The Modern Organization in the Digital Economy

2.1 Doing Business in the Digital Economy

2.2 Business Pressures, Organizational Responses, and IT Support

2.3 Competitive Advantage and Strategic Information Systems

2.4 Why Should You Learn about Information Technology?

Chapter 3 Ethics, Privacy, and Information Security\

3.1 Ethical Issues

3.2 Threats to Information Security

3.3 Protecting Information Resources

Chapter 4 Data and Knowledge Management

4.1 Managing Data

4.2 The Database Approach

4.3 Database Management Systems

4.4 Data Warehousing

4.5 Data Visualization

4.6 Knowledge Management

Chapter 5 Network Computing

5.1 Managing Data

5.2 The Database Approach

5.3 Database Management Systems

5.4 Data Warehousing

5.5 Data Visualization

5.6 Knowledge Management

Chapter 6 E-Business and E-Commerce

6.1 Overview of E-Business and E-Commerce

6.2 Business-to-Consumer (B2C) Electronic Commerce

6.3 Business-to-Business (B2B) Electronic Commerce

6.4 Electronic Payments

6.5 Ethical and Legal Issues in E- Business

Chapter 7 Wireless, Mobile Computing, and Mobile Commerce

7.1 Wireless Technologies

7.2 Wireless Computer Networks and Internet Access

7.3 Mobile Computing and Mobile Commerce

7.4 Pervasive Computing

7.5 Wireless Security

Chapter 8 Organizational Information Systems

8.1 Transaction Processing Systems

8.2 Functional Information Systems

8.3 Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

8.4 Customer Relationship Management

8.5 Supply Chain Management Systems

8.6 Electronic Data Interchange and Extranets

Chapter 9 Managerial Support Systems

9.1 Managers and Decision Making

9.2 Decision Support Systems

9.3 Enterprise and Executive Decision Support Systems

9.4 Intelligent Systems

Chapter 10 Acquiring IT Applications

10.1 Planning for and Justifying IT Applications

10.2 Strategies for Acquiring IT Applications

10.3 The Traditional Systems Development Life Cycle

10.4 Alternative Methods and Tools for Systems Development

10.5 Outsourcing and Application Service Providers

10.6 Vendor and Software Selection

Technology Guide 1 Computer Hardware

TG1.1 Introduction

TG1.2 The Central Processing Unit

TG1.3 Computer Memory

TG1.4 Computer Hierarchy

TG1.5 Input and Output Technologies

TG1.6 General Technological Trends

TG1.7 Strategic Hardware Issues

Technology Guide 2 Computer Software

TG 2.1 Significance of Software

TG 2.2 Systems Software

TG 2.3 Application Software

TG 2.4 Software Issues

TG 2.5 Programming Languages