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| A set of data, facts, numbers, and words that has been organized in such a way that it provides its users with knowledge. |
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| What a person percieves, recognizes, identifies, or discovers from analyzing data and information. |
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| An increase in the store or stock of people's expertise or knowledge. |
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| The many different kinds of computer and communications hardware and software and the skills of their designers, programmers, managers, and technicians who create and manage it. |
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| Managing information and knowledge to achieve a better fit between a company's business model and the forces in its environment. |
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| A situation in which managers have to process so much information it actually reduces their understanding of the situation. |
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| Information that is constantly updated. |
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| Chief Information Officer |
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| The top manager of a company's IT function. |
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| Transaction Processing System |
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| An It system designed to collect, record, and manipulate the data related to a company's day-to-day business operations. |
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| Knowledge Management System |
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| An IT system that analyzes the information collected from the TP system but filters and analyzes it to make it more useful to managers. |
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| The set of skill-based competencies that allow a particular function to perform at its optimal level. |
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| Expert employees who use their knowledge and learning to solve their customers' IT problems. |
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| An advanced IT system that can reason through a company's information, diagnose problems, and suggest solutions. |
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| An IT system that reasons and learns like a human being. |
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| Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems |
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| Multimodule applications that coordinate all of a company's functional activities. |
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| Trade that takes place between companies, and between companies and idividual customers, via the Internet. |
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| An industry-specific trading platform set up to connect buyers and sellers using the internet. |
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| A Company's internal system of computers and Web sites accessible only by its employees. |
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| The hardware and software components of a company's IT system at any one point in time. |
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| Hardware and software that electronically transfers data between networks to tis intended destination, such as a specific web pade or computer. |
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| A local area communication trechnology that transmits information between computers at speeds between 10 and 10 million MBP's using coaxial or fiber optic cable. |
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| A type of communicatons hardware that allows for the rapid transmission of vast amounts of information. |
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| The highest performing IT hardware or software application currently available for managing a particular information processing or multimedia task. |
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| A predominant type of technology used in an industry. Other technologies must be compatible with teh industry standard in order to be widely adopted. |
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| Software that gives a company's PCs safe access to the Internet but that blocks computers from outside the firm from gaining access to the company's internet. |
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| People who seek to invade a company's databases and steal the information for mailicious or illegal reasons. |
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| Software code deliberately written to harm hardware and software and corrupt files and databases. |
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