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| A computer program designed to support a specific task or business process |
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| Business Intelligence (BI) systems |
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| Information systems that provide computer-based support for complex, nonroutine decisions, primarily for middle managers and knowledge workers |
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| Chief Information Officer (CIO) |
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| The executive in charge of the information systems department in an organization |
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| An advantage over competitors in some measure such as cost, quality, or speed; leads to control of a market and to larger-than-average profits |
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| A business framework devised by Mochael Porter, which analyzes competitivemeness by recognizing 5 major forces that could endanger a company's position |
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| Computer-based information systems (CBIS) |
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| An information system that uses computer technology to perform some or all of its intended tasks |
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| Information systems that support all managers of the organization by providing rapid access to timely information and direct access to structured information in the form of reports |
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| A collection of related files, tables, relation, and so on that stores data and the associations among them |
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| Electronic Commerce System |
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| A type of interorganizational information system that enables organizations to conduct transactions with other business and with customers |
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| Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems |
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| Systems that tightly integrate the functional area information systems via a common database |
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| Product or service feature that customers expect from organization in a certain industry; an organization trying to enter this market must provide this product or service at a minimum to be able to compete |
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| The science of adapting machines and work environments to people, focusing on creating and environment that is safe, well lit, and comfortable |
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| Information systems that attempt to duplicate the work of human experts by applying reasoning capabilities, knowledge and expertise within a specific domain |
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| Functional Area Information Systems (FAIS) |
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| Information systems designed to summarize data and prepare reports for the functional areas, such as accounting and marketing |
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| A set of devices (for example, processor, monitor, keyboard, printer) that together accept data and information, process them, and display them |
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| A process that collects, processes, stores, analyzes, and disseminates information for a specific purpose; most ISs are computerized |
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| Interorganizational Information Systems (IOSs) |
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| Information systems that connect two or more organizations |
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| Professional employees who are experts in a particular subject area and create information and knowledge |
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| A connecting system (wireline or wireless) that permits different computers to share their information |
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| Office Automation Systems (OASs) |
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| Information systems that typically support the clerical staff, lower and middle managers, and knowledge workers |
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| Those individuals who use the hardware and software, interface with it, or use its outputs |
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| Those business activities related to the production and distribution of the firm's products and services, thus creating value |
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| The set of instructions about how to combine components of information systems in order to proces information and generate the desired output |
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| A set of programs that enables the hardware to process data |
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| Strategic Information Systems (SISs) |
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| Systems that help an organization gain a competitive advantage by supporting its strategic goals and/or increasing performance and productivity |
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| The flow of materials, information, money, and services from raw material suppliers through factories and warehouses to the end customers |
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| Business activities that do not addcalue directly to a firm's product or service under consideration but support the primary activities that do add value |
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| Transaction Processing System (TPS) |
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| An information system that supports the monitoring, collection, stroage, processing, and dissemination of data from the organization's basic business transactions |
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| System that includes the producers, suppliers, distributors, and buyers, all with their value chains |
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