Helps students to gain a comprehensive understanding of how information systems can aid the realisation of business objectives. The book covers BIS from a business, a technical and a systems development perspective.

With balanced and clear coverage of the technical systems aspects of BIS and the more managerial topics, this well-established text provides a solid coverage of the topic from systems analysis design and planning to data mining, business intelligence and knowledge management.

Companion website includes multiple choice questions, hints to the questions in the book, weblinks, online glossary and additional case studies

Suitable to students taking a BIS degree or a BIS module on a business or computing degree.

For over a decade, students and instructors alike have praised the broad coverage and clear exposition in the leading text Computer Science: An Overview. Glenn Brookshear draws on years of success in the classroom in this practical, language-independent approach to the introduction of core computing science topics.

The book has a very clear identity.

It takes a truly objects first approach to teaching problem solving using Java. These are complicated concepts so the book uses the development environment BlueJ to help the student’s understanding. BlueJ has a strong emphasis on visualization and interaction techniques, and allows the students to manipulate objects and call methods as a first exercise. BlueJ is free and freely available, and has been developed specifically for teaching.