Rainer & Cegielski's new edition of "Introduction to Information Systems: Enabling and Transforming Business" includes updated coverage, refined cases, more illustrations, and a new "Weekly Updates" resource. Its concise chapters, many cases and examples, and online quizzing provide smooth and straightforward information and provide many hands-on activities. In general, the text is more engaging, compelling and relevant with a broader table of contents, pedagogically innovative structure, integrated activities, Excel and Access projects. The 5th Edition includes a new chapter on ERP, more emphasis placed on business processes and cloud computing, and videos of author lectures for each section of the text.
This was an incredibly dry read. It was not only difficult to go through, but it was hard to identify what was information I needed to remember and what was overly detailed examples.