Thursday, June 18, 2009

The World of the Modern Systems Analyst

Information Systems
  • Crucial to success of modern business organizations
  • Constantly being developed to make business more competitive
  • Impact productivity and profits

Keys to successful systems development

  • Thorough systems analysis and design
  • Understanding what business requires

Systems analysis – what system should do

Systems design – how components of information system should be physically implemented

Systems analyst – uses analysis and design techniques to solve business problems with information technology


The Analyst as a Business Problem Solver
  • Has computer technology knowledge and programming expertise
  • Understands business problems
  • Uses logical methods for solving problems
  • Has fundamental curiosity
  • Wants to make things better
  • Is more of a business problem solver than technical programmer

Systems That Solve Business Problems
  • System – interrelated components functioning together to achieve outcome
  • Information systems – collection of interrelated components that collect, process, store, and provide as output information needed to complete tasks
  • Subsystems – part of larger system
  • Supersystem – larger system contains subsystem
  • Functional decomposition – dividing system into smaller subsystems and components

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