Information Technology in Action : Trends and Perspectives (Computing Ser.)

The experts agree: The best way to understand the IT industry is to listen to the leading practitioners who put IT into action. Now, in one volume, Dr. Richard Y. Wang has elicited from the top IT players their perspectives on this rapidly changing industry.
Information Technology in Action: Trends and Perspectives provides readers with a general understanding of the IT industry, a good sense of its emerging trends, and a broad understanding of the driving forces shaping the IT industry. Written by an expert, each chapter explores an individual area impacting IT, including the entity-relationship approach, distributed and client/server DBMS, object databases in action, CASE and application development technologies, database computers, massively parallel processing, developing strategic business systems using object technology, visual information access systems, towards total data quality management, the media's perspective, the investor's perspective, the consultant's perspective, the CIO's perspective and more.
Information Technology in Action: Trends and Perspectives is a must-read for anyone interested in IT.

Written by well-known industry participants, this book offers a unique presentation on the trends and perspectives of the information technology industry. It covers the ER approach; the object database in action; visual access systems; data quality management; and more.