05 Dec Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019)
Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019)
Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019)
Information systems, their use in business, and the larger impact they are having on our world.
DAVID BOURGEOIS
JOSEPH MORTATI, SHOUHONG WANG, AND JAMES SMITH
Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019) by David Bourgeois is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
This book was initially developed in 2014 by Dr. David Bourgeois as part of
the Open Textbook Challenge funded by the Saylor Foundation. This 2019
edition is an update to that textbook.
This book was produced with Pressbooks (https://pressbooks.com) and
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Information Systems for Business and Beyond
Updated edition: August 1, 2019
DAVID T. BOURGEOIS, PH.D.
JAMES L. SMITH, PH.D.
SHOUHONG WANG, PH.D.
JOSEPH MORTATI, MBA
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Copyright
Information Systems for Business and Beyond (2019) by David Bourgeois is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
vi | Copyright
Book Contributors
Information Systems for Business and Beyond was originally
developed in 2014 by David T. Bourgeois Ph.D.
Updates for the 2019 edition were graciously contributed by:
• James L. Smith Ph.D. (all chapters)
• Shouhong Wong, Ph.D. (chapters 4 and 8)
• Joseph Mortati, MBA (chapter 10)
Book Contributors | vii
Changes from Previous Edition
Information Systems for Business and Beyond was written by Dr.
David Bourgeois and originally published in 2014 as part of the
Open Textbook Challenge at the Saylor Foundation. Since then, it
has been accessed thousands of time and used in many courses
worldwide. This 2019 update to the textbook brings it up to date
and adds many new topics. True to its open textbook roots, many
of the updates have come from the community of instructors and
practitioners who are passionate about information systems. See
the page Book Contributors to see the primary contributors to this
edition. A majority of the changes listed below were made by Dr.
James Smith, who did a revision to this text in 2018.
Here is a summary of the changes made:
Overall
• New and updated images, especially those related to statistics,
in order to bring them up to date.
• References brought up to date.
• Added labs for every chapter.
• Added an index.
• Editing for consistency.
Chapter 1: What is an information system?
• Added video: Blum’s fibre optic TED Talk
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Chapter 2: Hardware
• Removed text which discussed increasing dependency on
tablets and decreasing use of desktops
• Clarification of bit vs. byte, binary vs. digital. Added tables to
Understanding Binary sidebar
• Added Huang’s Law on graphics processor units
• Modified text regarding Moore’s Law to state that his law is no
longer able to be maintained
Chapter 3: Software
• Added information about Ubuntu Linux
• Added Eclipse IDE
• Added information about Tableau
• Supply Chain Management: added an emphasis on use of
Information Systems up and down supply chain by Walmart to
gain competitive advantage
Chapter 4: Data and Databases
• Database schemas redesigned
• Data types added
• SQL examples include output
• NoSQL described
• Data Dictionary re-ordered to column name
• New section on “Why database technology?”
• Differentiation of data, information, and knowledge
• Section on Data models
• Changed illustrative example of database tables and
relationships.
Changes from Previous Editio
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