Business Cases

Many computer books contain long laundry lists of software features, with hastily scribbled explanations of how they work. If you're lucky, the discussion of software relates the software to the real world in some way.

In contrast, in this book we present the software in terms of business solutions. Accordingly, many of the chapters contain at least one business case, in which a fictional company pursues the elusive goal of office automation in dealing with common real-world business problems. Most of the business cases in this book follow the exploits of Jones Novelties, Incorporated, a small business just breaking into the retail souvenir, novelty, and party-tricks business.

Business Case 1.1: Introducing Jones Novelties, Incorporated

The company's CEO, Brad Jones, recognizes that, for Jones Novelties, Incorporated, to succeed, it must automate many of its transactions. These include customer contacts, inventory, and billing systems, and implementation must be tailored to the business and flexible enough to change over time.

Jones recognizes that the company will rise or fall on the basis of its access to information, so he decides to use a relational database system to manage the company's information. The design and functionality of such a database is the focus of the rest of this chapter.



Database Access with Visual Basic. NET
Database Access with Visual Basic .NET (3rd Edition)
ISBN: 0672323435
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 97

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