Systems design

Systems design is the process or art of defining the hardware and software architecture, components, modules, interfaces, and data for a computer system to satisfy specified requirements. One could see it as the application of systems theory to computing. Some overlap with the discipline of systems analysis appears inevitable.

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Hardware - Software - Data - Computer system - Requirement - Systems theory - Computing - Systems analysis

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Prior to the standardisation of hardware and software in the 1990s which resulted in the ability to build modular systems, systems design had a more crucial and respected role in the data processing industry. The increasing importance of software running on generic platforms have enhanced the discipline of software engineering at systems design's expense.

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Standardisation - Modular - Data processing - Software engineering

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Object-oriented analysis and design methods are becoming the most widely used methods for system design. The

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UML has become the standard language used in Object-oriented analysis and design. It is widely used for modeling software systems and is e increasingly used for designing non-software systems and organizations.

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UML - Object-oriented analysis and design

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