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| The number of transistors per square inch on an integrated chip doubles every 18 months. The cost of data communications and data storage is essentially zero. |
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| the ability to make and manipulate models |
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| the ability to model the components of the system, to connect the inputs and outputs among those components into a sensible whole that reflects the structure and dynamics of the phenomenon observed. |
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| the activity of two or more people working together to achieve a common goal, result, or work product. |
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| making a reasoned analysis of an opportunity, envisioning potential solutions, evaluating those possibilities, and developing the most promising ones, consistent with the resources you have. |
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| the management and use of information systems that help businesses achieve their strategies |
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| a group of components that interact to achieve some purpose. |
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| a model of the components of an information system: computer hardware, software, data, procedures, and people. |
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| the products, methods, inventions, and standards that are used for the purpose of producing information. |
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| is knowledge derived from data, whereas DATA is defined as recorded facts or figures. |
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has nine or more characters
does not contain your user name, real name, or company name
does not contain a complete dictonary word, in any language
is different from previous passwords you have used
contains both upper- and lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters |
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| group of people working together, all doing essentially the same type of work, to accomplish a job. |
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| a group of people working together to achieve a common goal "via a process of feedback and iteration. |
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| are those that support operational, day-to-day activities |
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| are decisions about allocation and utilization of resources. |
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| are those that support broad-scope, organizational issues |
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| process is one for which there is an understood and accepted method for making the decision |
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| process is one for which there is no agree-on-decision-making method |
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| is a perceived difference between what is and what ought to be. |
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| is an information system that supports collaboration |
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| is data that is part of the collaboration's work product. |
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| is data that is used to manage the projects |
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| is the program component of a collaboration system |
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| Synchronous communication |
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| occurs when all team members meet at the same time, such as with conference calls or face-to-face meetings. |
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| Asynchronous communication |
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| occurs when team members do not meet at the same time. |
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| in which participants do not meet in the same place, and possibly not at the same time |
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| Screen-sharing applications |
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| enable users to view the same whiteboard, application, or other display. |
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| is a virtual meeting in which attendees view one of the attendees' computer screens fora more formal and organized presentation |
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| one group member posts an entry, perhaps an idea, a comment, or a question, and other group members respond. |
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| one team member creates a list of questions and other team members respond. |
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| which is simply a computer that stores files. |
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| track changes to documents and provide features and functions to accommodate concurrent work. |
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| is a free, thin-client application for sharing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, and other types of data. |
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| Microsoft's answer to google docs. it provides the ability to store and share Office documents and other files and offers free storage. |
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| the process that occurs when the collaboration tool limits, and sometimes even directs, user activity. |
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| share documents are placed in shared directories. |
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| manage activities in a pre-defined process |
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| is a suite of programs that offers the collaboration facilities. |
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| is an industrial-strength product for content sharing. |
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bargaining power of customers
threat of substitutions
bargaining power of suppliers
threat of new entrants
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| the strategy an organization chooses as the way it will succeed in its industry. According to Porter, there are four fundamental competitive strategies: cost leadership across an industry or within a particular industry segment and product differentiation across an industry or within a particular industry segment. |
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| the amount of money that a customer is willing to pay for a resource, product, or service. |
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| the difference between the value that an activity generates and the cost of the activity |
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| is a network of value-creating activities |
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| in Porter's value chain model, the fundamental activities that create value: inbound logistics, operations, outbound logistics, marketing/sales, and service |
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| in Porter's value chain model, the activities that contribute indirectly to value creation: procurement, technology, human resources, and the firm's infrastructure. |
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| which are interactions across value activites |
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| is a network of activities that generate value by transforming inputs and outputs. |
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| Cost of the business process |
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| is the cost of the inputs plus the cost of the activities. |
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| is a business function that receives inputs and produces outputs. |
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| a collection of something; a database is a repository of data and a raw material repository is an inventory of raw materials |
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| Business process management |
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| a systematic process of modeling, creating, implementing, assessing business processes. |
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| organizations can lock in customers by making it difficult or expensive for customers to switch to another product. This strategy is sometimes called establishing high switching costs. |
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| those who have internet access and those who do not |
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| consists of electronic components and related gadgetry that input, process, output, and store data according to instructions encoded in computer programs or software. |
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| keyboard, mouse, document scanners, and bar-code scanners like those used in grocery stores. |
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| Central Processing Unit (CPU) |
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| called the "brain" of the computer. CPU selects instructions, processes them, performs arithmetic and logical comparisons, and stores results of operations in memory. |
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| main memory is sometimes called RAM, for random access memory |
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| consists of video displays, printers, audio speakers, overhead projectors, and other special-purpose devices, such as large flatbed plotters. |
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| Universal Serial Bus (UBS) |
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| simplified the connection of peripheral gear to computers for both manufacturers and users and are widely used |
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| computer represent data using binary digits called bits. a bit is either zero or one. |
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| bits are grouped into 8-bit chunks called bytes. |
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| CPU keeps frequently used instructions in the cache. Having a large cache makes the computer faster, but cache is expensive. |
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| which is a program that controls the computer's resources. |
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| If there is not enough memory, it will remove something, perhaps the block of memory labeled More Excel, and then it will place the just-requested program or data into the vacated space. |
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| used for word processing, spreadsheets, database access, and so forth. Most client computers also have software that enables them to connect to a network. |
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| provide some service. process emails, websites, large shared databases |
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| servers are organized into a collection of servers |
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| resides on more than 85 percent of the world's desktops, and, if we consider just business users, the figure is more than 95 percent |
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| Apple touts it as the world's most advanced desktop operating system |
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| It has been the workhorse of the scientific and engineering communities. |
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| Developed by the open source community. |
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| is a mobile client operating system, popular on phones in europe and the far east |
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| was one of the most successful early mobile operating systems and was used primarily by business users on blackberry devices. |
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| is the operating system used on the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. |
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| is a mobile operating system licensed by google. |
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| is a version of Windows that been specifically designed and configured for server use. |
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| which is a flat fee that authorizes the company to install the product (operating system or application) on all of that company's computers or on all of the computers at a specific site. |
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| is the process by which one computer hosts the appearance of many computers. |
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| runs one or more operating systems as applications. |
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| a personal computer, such as a desktop or portable computer, host several different operating systems. |
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| a server computer hosts one or more, other server computers. |
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| performs a service or function. Some application programs are general purpose, such as Microsoft Excel or Word. |
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| Horizontal-market application |
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| provides capabilities common across all organizations and industries. Word processors, graphics programs, spreadsheets, and presentation programs. |
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| Vertical-Market Application |
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| serves the needs of a specific industry. |
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| One-of-a-kind application |
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| developed for a specific, unique need. IRS has needs that no other organization has. |
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| Client-server applications |
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| process code on both the client and the server |
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| program that must be preinstalled on the client. |
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| on that runs within a browser and does not need to be preinstalled. |
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| is a computer software that is installed into devices such as printers, print servers, and various types of communication devices. Read-only memory of devices. |
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| a self-referential acronym meaning GNU Not Unix for creating a free Unix-like operating system |
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| is computer code written by humans and that is understandable by humans. |
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| not understandable by humans and cannot by modified |
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| highly protected and only available to trusted employees and carefully vetted contractors |
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| business professionals work their way through airport security, unpacking and packing their computer loads. |
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| The cache and main memory are volatile, meaning their contents are lost when power is off. |
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| a self-describing collection of integrated records |
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| bytes are grouped into columns. Columns are also called fields |
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| columns or fields grouped. also called records |
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| is a column or group of columns that identifies a unique row in a table |
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| keys of a different (foreign) table than the one in which they reside |
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| databases that carry their data in the form of tables and that represent relationships using foreign keys |
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| database management system (DBMS) |
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| is a program used to create, process, and administer a database. Examples DB2 from IBM, Access and SQL Server from Microsoft |
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| Structured Query Language(SQL) |
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| is an international standard language for processing a database |
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| a collection of forms, reports, queries, and application programs that process a database. |
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| used to read, insert, modify, and delete data |
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| show data in a structured context |
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| a request for data from a database |
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| process large organizational and workgroup databases. |
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| products designed for smaller, simpler database applications. fewer then 100 users, and normally fewer than 15 users |
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| developers construct a logical representation of database data |
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| entity-relationship (E-R) data model |
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| a tool for constructing data models. Developers, use it to describe the content of a data model. |
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| something that the users want to track. Examples like order, customer, salesperson, and item. |
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| describe characteristics of the entity |
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| which is an attribute (or group of attributes) whose value is associated with one and only one entity instance |
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| entities have relationships to each other. An order, for example, has a relationship to a customer entity and also to a Salesperson entity |
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| process of converting a poorly structured table into two or more well-structured tables. |
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| maximum number of entities that can be involved in a relationship |
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| transforming a table into a normal form to remove duplicated data and other problems is called normalizing the table. |
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