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{"title":"Couger selected by DPMA for man-of-the-year award","authors":"James S. Ketchel","doi":"10.1145/1040720.1040725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1040720.1040725","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152518,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigmis Database","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127299443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Review of \"Database Processing Fundamentals, Modelling, Applications by David Kroenke\"; Science Research Association, Inc., 1977","authors":"I. Benbasat, R. Goldstein","doi":"10.1145/1040710.1040714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1040710.1040714","url":null,"abstract":"Database Processing is an introductory level book on data base systems written in a clear, easily understood style. It contains a large number of diagrams and flowcharts which are well-integrated with the text and help to clarify some of the complex ideas that are presented. The book is divided into four major sections, following an introductory chapter on the advantages and disadvantages of the data base approach and its relation to earlier methods of file handling.","PeriodicalId":152518,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigmis Database","volume":"131 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121482876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Review of \"Management Data Bases, by R. Clay Sprowls\"; Wiley/Hamilton, 1976","authors":"Jeffrey A. Lasky","doi":"10.1145/1040710.1040715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1040710.1040715","url":null,"abstract":"This text is heavily oriented toward having readers design and implement a data base for a defined business activity, such as sales. Chapters One, \"The Developing Data Base Environment,\" Five, \"Logical Structures or Why Data Bases,\" and Eight, \"Some Design Guidelines,\" contain excellent material for motivating the reader to think about the data base approach in a context of supplying informa- tion to business managers. The latter part of Chapter Five contains the initial definition of the purchase order example which is used throughout the text. Chapter Eight exposes the student to the reasoning which supports the author's solution to the purchase order design problem. A normalizing procedure is used as an integral part of the design process.","PeriodicalId":152518,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigmis Database","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127787178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Review of \"Strategic Planning for MIS, by Ephraim R. McLean & John V. Soden\"; Wiley-Interscience, 1977","authors":"Gene Altshuler","doi":"10.1145/1040710.1040716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1040710.1040716","url":null,"abstract":"With all my prejudices showing, I approached Strategic Planning for MIS. When the book was presented to me for review, I was told that it was a collection of selected readings. This caused me to want to reject it out-of-hand, for I could not stomach another collection of essays or monographs, connected loosely with an all-encompassing title, and where the editors, at best, appended a hundred words or so at the beginning of each chapter alleging to put it into context. I felt I could not psych myself up to struggle through a dozen different styles of writing, often times photo-reproduced from the original, thus displaying a dozen different type fonts replete with hand-drawn diagrams. I just was not in the mood for another \"cheap shot\" at a book by two editors.","PeriodicalId":152518,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigmis Database","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131390925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Review of \"The Conquest of Will: Information Processing in Human Affairs, by Abbe Mowshowitz.\" Addison Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1976","authors":"T. C. Willoughby","doi":"10.1145/1017601.1017606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1017601.1017606","url":null,"abstract":"When you pick up this book you may suspect that the title is presumptuous. Business systems? In one volume? On the other hand, the book is heavy and the table of contents seems comprehensive: Part I Information Systems in Organizations, Part II the Systems Project, Part Ill Information Analysis, Part IV System Design, Part V Systems Implementation and Part VI Systems Control and Minor Maintenance. Not only that, but the chapter headings sound good and they fit, too. So far so good, but we've all seen plenty of books that don't live up to the promises of the table of contents. Well, BDP fans, you have a surprise in store. Wil loughby and Senn have done an impressive job. The book is aimed directly at the practical processes and problems of system analysis, and it begins precisely where it should: the organizational setting within which systems analysis must function. The book goes on to cover the processes of systems analysis and a wide array of applicable tools and techniques. The authors use an interesting device in presenting system tools. They present a matrix with tools represented as rows and the phases of the systems process as columns. They then indicate, by number, where the tools are most used (1), frequently used (2), occasionally used (3) and infrequently used (4). The tool is then introduced in the text at the point or phase where it first sees extensive use. This book has many good features not the least of which is an obviously extensive practical experience in systems analysis on the part of the authors. The chapters are many (30) and relatively short, which will make it highly adaptable for use as a textbook. There is a substantial bibliography at the end of each chapter, which will be a useful guide to the reader who would like to pursue a subject further. While this book may not be the last word in textbooks on applied systems analysis, it is certainly going to be a tough one to beat. I also recommend it to those who would like to be systems analysts or those who are systems analysts and are not quite sure what they should be doing.","PeriodicalId":152518,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigmis Database","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127573714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Review of \"Business Systems, by Theodore C. Willoughby and James A. Senn.\" The Association for Systems Management, Cleveland, 1975","authors":"W. Cotterman","doi":"10.1145/1017601.1017605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1017601.1017605","url":null,"abstract":"When you pick up this book you may suspect that the title is presumptuous. Business systems? In one volume? On the other hand, the book is heavy and the table of contents seems comprehensive: Part I Information Systems in Organizations, Part II the Systems Project, Part Ill Information Analysis, Part IV System Design, Part V Systems Implementation and Part VI Systems Control and Minor Maintenance. Not only that, but the chapter headings sound good and they fit, too. So far so good, but we've all seen plenty of books that don't live up to the promises of the table of contents. Well, BDP fans, you have a surprise in store. Wil loughby and Senn have done an impressive job. The book is aimed directly at the practical processes and problems of system analysis, and it begins precisely where it should: the organizational setting within which systems analysis must function. The book goes on to cover the processes of systems analysis and a wide array of applicable tools and techniques. The authors use an interesting device in presenting system tools. They present a matrix with tools represented as rows and the phases of the systems process as columns. They then indicate, by number, where the tools are most used (1), frequently used (2), occasionally used (3) and infrequently used (4). The tool is then introduced in the text at the point or phase where it first sees extensive use. This book has many good features not the least of which is an obviously extensive practical experience in systems analysis on the part of the authors. The chapters are many (30) and relatively short, which will make it highly adaptable for use as a textbook. There is a substantial bibliography at the end of each chapter, which will be a useful guide to the reader who would like to pursue a subject further. While this book may not be the last word in textbooks on applied systems analysis, it is certainly going to be a tough one to beat. I also recommend it to those who would like to be systems analysts or those who are systems analysts and are not quite sure what they should be doing.","PeriodicalId":152518,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigmis Database","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115380648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Review of \"Readings in Management Information Systems, by Gordon B. Davis and Gordon C. Everest.\" McGraw-Hill, 1976","authors":"F. F. Newpeck","doi":"10.1145/1017601.1017607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1017601.1017607","url":null,"abstract":"When you pick up this book you may suspect that the title is presumptuous. Business systems? In one volume? On the other hand, the book is heavy and the table of contents seems comprehensive: Part I Information Systems in Organizations, Part II the Systems Project, Part Ill Information Analysis, Part IV System Design, Part V Systems Implementation and Part VI Systems Control and Minor Maintenance. Not only that, but the chapter headings sound good and they fit, too. So far so good, but we've all seen plenty of books that don't live up to the promises of the table of contents. Well, BDP fans, you have a surprise in store. Wil loughby and Senn have done an impressive job. The book is aimed directly at the practical processes and problems of system analysis, and it begins precisely where it should: the organizational setting within which systems analysis must function. The book goes on to cover the processes of systems analysis and a wide array of applicable tools and techniques. The authors use an interesting device in presenting system tools. They present a matrix with tools represented as rows and the phases of the systems process as columns. They then indicate, by number, where the tools are most used (1), frequently used (2), occasionally used (3) and infrequently used (4). The tool is then introduced in the text at the point or phase where it first sees extensive use. This book has many good features not the least of which is an obviously extensive practical experience in systems analysis on the part of the authors. The chapters are many (30) and relatively short, which will make it highly adaptable for use as a textbook. There is a substantial bibliography at the end of each chapter, which will be a useful guide to the reader who would like to pursue a subject further. While this book may not be the last word in textbooks on applied systems analysis, it is certainly going to be a tough one to beat. I also recommend it to those who would like to be systems analysts or those who are systems analysts and are not quite sure what they should be doing.","PeriodicalId":152518,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigmis Database","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1977-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127906938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"User needs discussed","authors":"A. Merten","doi":"10.1145/1017576.1017579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1017576.1017579","url":null,"abstract":"a consensus among the panelists that high-quality software is the key to successful mini systems (especially on-line ones), audience questions were focused on how the inexperienced or potential mini user can get the first-class system definition and detailed specifications needed to produce a successful system. Consultants can fill this rote well and should be able to offer objectivity in evaluating and implementing hardware and software offerings, Vic Poor said. But he pointed out that qualified consultants of integrity are so few and far between that exploding demand for software applications will require most users to depend on reliable hardware manufacturers offering total systems capability. Pan-elists from systems and software firms, however, felt that independently supplied software has filled a vendor support void, can satisfy users particular needs more precisely and can employ the hardware best suited to a particular job. In summary, minis are already providing a surprisingly powerful range of low-cost solutions for major business problems. The seminar on transferability of application programs and data bases at NCC 76 included presentations by Robert Marion of the Defense Communications Agency, Elmer Bartels of Honeywell and James Fry of the University of Michigan. The session highlighted the users' needs for translation aids, currently available software provided by the manufacturers and results and directions of related research activities. The paper presented by Fry and coauthored by Edward Birss was selected as the best technical paper of NCC 76. \"Relational data base\" is a term which is slowly beginning to be used in business data processing circles. Most practitioners still feel that there is something vaguely ivory-towerish, esoteric and probably impractical about the whole concept. After all, EDP people had to rapidly adjust to the linear, to hierarchical, to network transitions; now we are throwing yet another data base model at them. That was the theme advanced for a seminar on relational data bases at NCC 76. The discussion, however, suggested that relations are not esoteric, they can be practical, real people are solving real problems in the area. Three papers were presented: one on the University of Ontario's virtual memory system (RAP), one on General Motor's combination of DB, graphic and statistical package (REGIS) and one on IBM's fill-in-the-blanks (Query by Example). Though at first glance, it seemed that the three topics were quite divergent, they did have a unifying message, that relational data bases are real, they are usable and there …","PeriodicalId":152518,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigmis Database","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133458678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Relational concept explored","authors":"Susan Brewer","doi":"10.1145/1017576.1017580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1017576.1017580","url":null,"abstract":"a consensus among the panelists that high-quality software is the key to successful mini systems (especially on-line ones), audience questions were focused on how the inexperienced or potential mini user can get the first-class system definition and detailed specifications needed to produce a successful system. Consultants can fill this rote well and should be able to offer objectivity in evaluating and implementing hardware and software offerings, Vic Poor said. But he pointed out that qualified consultants of integrity are so few and far between that exploding demand for software applications will require most users to depend on reliable hardware manufacturers offering total systems capability. Pan-elists from systems and software firms, however, felt that independently supplied software has filled a vendor support void, can satisfy users particular needs more precisely and can employ the hardware best suited to a particular job. In summary, minis are already providing a surprisingly powerful range of low-cost solutions for major business problems. The seminar on transferability of application programs and data bases at NCC 76 included presentations by Robert Marion of the Defense Communications Agency, Elmer Bartels of Honeywell and James Fry of the University of Michigan. The session highlighted the users' needs for translation aids, currently available software provided by the manufacturers and results and directions of related research activities. The paper presented by Fry and coauthored by Edward Birss was selected as the best technical paper of NCC 76. \"Relational data base\" is a term which is slowly beginning to be used in business data processing circles. Most practitioners still feel that there is something vaguely ivory-towerish, esoteric and probably impractical about the whole concept. After all, EDP people had to rapidly adjust to the linear, to hierarchical, to network transitions; now we are throwing yet another data base model at them. That was the theme advanced for a seminar on relational data bases at NCC 76. The discussion, however, suggested that relations are not esoteric, they can be practical, real people are solving real problems in the area. Three papers were presented: one on the University of Ontario's virtual memory system (RAP), one on General Motor's combination of DB, graphic and statistical package (REGIS) and one on IBM's fill-in-the-blanks (Query by Example). Though at first glance, it seemed that the three topics were quite divergent, they did have a unifying message, that relational data bases are real, they are usable and there …","PeriodicalId":152518,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigmis Database","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1976-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125813611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Review of \"The Program Development Process: The Individual Programmer, by Joel D. Aron.\" Addison Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1974","authors":"T. C. Willoughby","doi":"10.1145/1017617.1017622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1017617.1017622","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":152518,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigmis Database","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1975-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115334286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}