It provides comprehensive coverage of managerial aspects, methodologies and technologies including: Management decisions before and during the IS acquisition, development and engineering project management implementation requirements and design using UML, implementation, testing and customization of software architecture and platform support tools (CASE tools, IDE, collaboration tools) Books into account that for most organizations today, the development of in-house is just one of several options to get the IS. A good many of the IS development has moved to software vendors both domestic software companies, foreign or multinational.