Special features

• Special features
  • Demonstration software
  • Videos
  • Animations
  • Technology extras

Demonstration software

There are several packages you can try. There's an example of every major type of software mentioned in the text, including a transaction processing system, a decision tool, a document center, and a virtual community.

If you have suggestions for things to add, either specific software or a category of software you would like to see, please let me know. Use the orange feedback tab on the left, or add something to the Book feedback forum. (If you have registered, there's a forum link on the right.)

Videos

Here is a list of pages that have videos (I may have missed some). Most are from YouTube.

• Of processes and transactions
• System functions not system types
• Introduction to MIS -Exercises
• Networks - Exercises
• Security threats
• Preventing security breaches, part 1
• Security - Exercises
• Process modeling
• Why model business processes?
• Modeling modeling
• Statistical analysis
• Virtual community - Exercises

Animations

Animations are better than static images at showing how processes work over time. I've included a number of reader-controlled animations. That is, you click something or type something to control the animation.

Here are some pages with animations:

• Book features
• Document center technology models (three animations)

Technology extras

These are supplements designed to interest MIS majors.

• Programming in Scratch
• Building a Web site with Google Sites?