Systems Development Handbook, Fourth Edition

The Systems Development Handbook provides practical guidance for the range of new applications problems, featuring contributions from many industry experts. The book provides step-by-step charts, tables, schematics, and a comprehensive index for easy access to topics and areas of related interest. Topics include cooperative processing; the transition to object-oriented development; rapid application development tools and graphical user interfaces (GUIs); database architecture in distributed computing; development tools and techniques, including design, measurement, and production; and more.

Database. Functionality. and. Design. Enterprise Data Management has become
a crucial concept in the overall strategy of leveraging information as a corporate
asset. Isolated, autonomous, and proprietary data structures used in the past are
no longer acceptable repositories for most organizations. Instead, there is a
mandatory requirement for accessing all corporate data via simple, expedient
and comprehensive techniques. The ongoing pursuit of "distributed databases"
and "data ...