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Summary
Summary
The evolving technology known as ``computer-aided software engineering'' has allowed more and more organizations to incorporate information engineering principles into systems planning and development approaches. This valuable guide provides a framework for integrating these principles into an effective approach that can be customized to meet the requirements of individual projects. It describes the key characteristics that distinguish information engineering from other systems development approaches and introduces the four phases of the information engineering processs: systems planning, business area analysis, system design, and construction. Emphasizing the technical aspects of the process, this guide establishes the context, purpose, and special issues related to each activity. Illustrated with flow diagrams.
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Choice Review
This volume introduces new terms and concepts and poses problems of how the field will accept the innovations couched as they are in promotional rhetoric. What are ``GAMMA'' or ``Information Engineering''? Do the terms ``Business Area Analysis (BAA)'' and ``Business Area Information Model'' and the field to which they apply replace the concept of management information system? James Martin has developed ``Information Engineering'' and GAMMA is a code generator. Martin's company, Knowledgeware, Inc., and the Arthur Young Company, an international management firm, have converged to develop this book. Martin, alone or with coauthors, has written 25 to 30 books in the past decade. This book is clear in its presentation, if redundant, especially in its presentation of GAMMA. The index points to system design with its many implications; the glossary is outstanding. The book may be on the cutting edge of change-at present, it should be read critically.-D.B. Lilley, East Texas State University
