Professional Documents
Culture Documents
4
Creation/purchase of IS consumes
significant resources and has financial
resource implications.
Quality of AISs and their output rests
directly on SDLC activities that produce
them.
5
As Users
As members of
development team
As Auditors
6
Systems Strategy
◦ Help reduce risk of creating unneeded,
unwanted, inefficient, ineffective systems
Conceptual Design
◦ Control implications
◦ Auditability of system
Systems Selection
◦ Economic feasibility
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IN HOUSE DEVELOPMENT
COMMERCIAL SYSTEMS
TRENDS IN COMMERCIAL SYSTEM
◦ Low Cost
◦ Emergence of Software Industry
◦ Growing Demand of Businesses
◦ Downsizing/ DDP IT Environment
General
Turnkey Special Purpose
Accounting
Systems Systems
Systems
Office Vendor
Backbone
Automation Supported
Systems
Systems Systems
•Independence
•Implementation Time •The need for customized
•Cost systems (becomes dependent
•Reliability on vendor)
•Maintenance
Programming Test Results
& Testing
MAINTENANCE
Objective of Systems Planning is to link individual projects or
applications to the strategic objectives of the firm.
STEERING COMMITTEE & RESPONSIBILITIES (6)
Transaction
Data Flows Controls
Volumes
Bottlenecks
Error Rates Resource Costs and redundant
operations
Observation Task Participation
Personal Interviews
• OPEN ENDED (allows to Reviewing Key
elaborate)
Documents
• QUESTIONNAIRES (more
specific, more detailed)
Systems Analysis Report (pg 195)