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| Management Information Systems |
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| Transaction Processing Systems |
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Managment Information System
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| ...an organized integration of hardware and software technologeies, data, processes, and human elements designed to produce timely, integrated, relevant, accurate, and useful infomation for decision-making purposes. |
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| ...understanding the role of information in generating and using business intellegence |
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Business Intelligence
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| ...provides historical, current, and predictive views of business operations and enviornments and gives organizations a competitive advantage in the market place. |
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Transaction Processing Systems
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| focus on the data collection and processing; the major reason for using them is cost reduction. |
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| ...is skill in using productivity software, such as word processors, spreadsheets, database managments systems, and presenbtasion software, as well as having a basic knowledge of hardware and software, the internets, the google and collaboration tools and technologies. |
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...consists of raw facts and is a component of an information system.
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| ...is a collection of all relavant data organized in a series of integrated files. |
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| ...consists of facts that have been analyzed by the process component and is an output of an information system. |
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| ...support information systems and use the Internet, computer networks, database systems, POS systems, and radio-frequency-identification (RFID) tags. |
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| Micheal Porter's Business Strategies |
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...Segmentation Strategy
...Differentiation Strategy
...Cost Leadership |
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Central Processing Unit
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| the heart of a computer. It's devided into two components: the arithmetic logic unit (ALU) and the control unit. |
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Arithmetic Control Unit
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| ..preforms arithmetic operations (+, −, ×, ÷), and comparison or relational operations (<, >, =) are used to compare numbers. |
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| ...a link between devices connected to the computer. It can be parallel or serial, internal (local) or external. |
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| ...the main circuit board containing connectors for attaching additional boards. It usually contains the CPU, BIOS, memory, storage interfaces, serial and parallel ports, expansion slots, and all the controllers fo rhte standard peripheral devices, such as the display monitor, disk drives, and keyboard. |
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| Basic input/output system which loads the operating system. |
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| ...a single value of 0 or 1 |
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| ...resides on the processor. Because memory acces from the main RAM stroage takes several clock cycles (a few nano seconds), cache RAM stores recently accessed memory so that the processor isn't waiting for the memory transfer. |
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| ...is nonvolatile; data cannot be written to this form of data storage. |
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| ...is a volatile memory, in which data can be read from and written to; it is also called read-write memory (seriously no one is calling it that, so don't.) |
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| ...is nonvolatile, holds data when the computer is off or durring the course of a programs's operation, it also serves as a archival storage. |
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| ...Redundant array of independent disks |
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Redundant array of independent disks
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| ... is a collection of disk drives used for fault tolerance and improved performance, typically in large network systems. |
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Storage Area Network
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| ...is a dedicated high -speed network consisting of both hardware and software used to connect and manage shared storage devices, such as disk arrays, tape libraries, and optical storage devices. |
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| ...a set of programs for controlling and managing computer hardware and software. Provides an interface between the computer and the user and increases computer efficiency by helping users share computer resources and by preforming repetitive tsks for users. |
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| ...can be commercial software or software developed in house and is used to perform a veriety of tasks on the personal computer. |
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| Fourth-generation languages |
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| Fifth-generation languages |
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Forth-generation languages
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| ...use some macro codes that can tke the place of several lines of programming. The comands are powerful and easy to learn, even for people with little computer training |
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Fifth-generation languages
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| ...use some of the artificial intelligence technologies, such as knowlage-based systems, natural language processing (NLP), visual programming, and a graphical approach to programming. These languages are designed to facilitate natural conversations between you and the computer. |
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| ...the secong generation of computer languages, is a higer-level language then the machine language but is also machine dependent. It uses a series of short codes, or mnemonics, to represent data or instructions. |
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| ...The supervisor program responsible for controlling all other programs in the OS, such as compilers, interpreters, assemblers, and utilities for preforming special tasks. |
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| ...consists of a series of 0s and 1s representing data or instructions. Machine language depends on the machine, so code written for one type of computer dose not work on another type of computer. |
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| Hyper Text Markup Language |
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| Extensible Markup Language |
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| ...is a collection of related data that can be stored in a centeral location or in multiple locations. |
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| ...is the structure and organization of data, which involves fields, records, and files. |
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| Database management system |
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Database Management System
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| ...is software for creating, storing, maintaing, and accessing database files. A dBMS makes using databases more efficient. |
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| Sequential file structure |
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| ... records in files are organized and processed in numerical or sequential order, typically the order in which they were entered. |
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| Indexed Sequential Acces Method |
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| Random Access File Structure |
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| ...records can be accessed in any order, regaurdless of their physical location in storage media. This method od access is fast and very effictive when a small number of records need to be processed daily or weekly. |
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Indexed Sequential Acces Method
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| ...records cna be accessed sequentially or randomly, depending on the number being accessed. For a small number, random access is used, for a large number, sequential access is used. |
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| ...involves how information appears to users and how it can be organized and retrieved. |
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| ...involves how information appears to users and how it can be organized and retrieved. |
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| ...determines how data is created, represented, organized, and maintained. It usually contains data structure, operations, and integrity rules. |
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| ...the relationship between records from a treelike structure (hierarchyI). Records are called nodes, and relationships between records are called branches. The node at the top is called the root, and every other node (called a chicld) has a parent. Nodes with the same parents are called twins or siblings. |
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| ...is similar to the hierachucal model, but records are organized differently. Unlike the hierarchical model, each record in the network model can have multiple parent and child records. |
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| ...uses a two-demensional table of rows and columns of data. ROws are records (also called tuples), and columns are fields (also referred to as attributes). |
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| ...uniquely identifies every record in a relational database. Examples include: Student ID Numbers and invoice numbers. |
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| ...is a field in a relational table that matches the primary key column of another table. It can be used to cross-reference tables. |
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| ...improves database efficiency by eliminating redundant dsata and ensuring that only related data is stored in a table. |
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| Structured Query Language |
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Structured Query Language
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| ...is a standard fourth generation query language used by many DBMS packages, such as oracle 11g. This language consists of several keywords specifiying actions to take. |
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| ...is a collection of data from a variety of sources used to support decisionmaking applications and generate business intelligence. |
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| ...refers to new objects being created faster and more easily by entering new data atributes. |
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| refers to the grouping into a class of various objects along with their attributes and methods - i.e., grouping related items into a single unit. This helps handle more complex types of data, such as images and graphs. |
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| Object-oriented databases |
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| ...both data and their relationships are contained in a single object. An object consists of attributes and methods that can be preformed on the object's data. |
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| ...users' workstations (clients) are linked in a local area network (LAN) to share the services of a single server. |
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| ...stores data on multiple servers throughout an organization. |
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| Extraction, transformation and loading |
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Extraction, transformation and loading
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| ...refers to the processes used in a data warehouse. It includes extracting data from outside sources transforming it to fit the operational needs, and loading it into the end target (database or data warehouse). |
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| Online transaction processing |
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Online transaction processing
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| ...systems are used to facilitate and manage transcation-oriented applications, such as POS, data entry, and retrieval transaction processing. They usually utilize internal data and respond in real time. |
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| Online analytical processing |
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Online analytical processing
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| ...generates business intelligence. It uses multiple sources of information and provides multidimensional analysis, such as viewing data based on time, product, and location. |
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| ...is used to discover patterns and relarionships. |
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| is an American multinational computer technology corporation headquartered in Redwood City, California, United States. The company specializes in developing and marketing computer hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly its own brands of database management systems. |
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| ...is usually a smaller version of a data warehouse, used by a single departmetn or function. |
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| ...stores definitions, such as data types for fields, default values, and validation rules for data in each field. |
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| A data organization system lacking relation between files, hierarchy. Archaic |
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| Charts showing a prgression or movment of data or process. |
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