
Systems design
6 To permit managers to retrieve summary information about
orders during a given time period or by customer type, etc.
The other stages really subserve the output requirements. You may
decide to consider next the procedural elements, namely the rules
whereby the output requirements are met. But you will also need to
have designed the logical inputs so that you can relate the rules to those
inputs, and you will find the need for file design to be considered, too.
Design of the outputs from the system
This,
as mentioned previously, must be the first stage in the logical
design. Essentially, this is about the
presentation
of information. ...