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| refers to the extent of detail within the information (fine and detailed or coarse and abstract) |
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| transactional information |
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| encompasses all of the info contained within a single business process or unit of work, and its primary purpose is to support daily operational tasks |
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| encompasses all organizational information and its primary purpose is to support the performing of managerial analysis tasks(important when deciding whether or not make a new manufacturing plant or hire additional sales personnel) |
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| immediate, up to date info |
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| provides real time info in response to requests; used to uncover key corporate transactional information |
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| information inconsistency |
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| occurs when the same data element has different values |
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| information integrity issues |
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| occurs when a system produces incorrect, inconsistent, or duplicate data; can cause managers to consider the system reports invalid and will make decisions based on other sources |
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| 4 primary traits of the value of information |
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information type
information timeliness
information quality
information governance |
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individual, department, enterprise
(knowledge, goals, strategies) |
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| document, presentation, spreadsheet, database |
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| information granularities |
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detail (fine), summary, aggregate (coarse)
(reports for each sales person, sales personnel, reports across departments) |
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| examples of transactional info |
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sales receipts
airline ticket
packing slip |
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| examples of analytical information |
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product statistics
sales projections
future growth
trends |
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| 5 common characteristics of high-quality information |
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| accurate, complete, consistent, timely, unique |
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refers to the overall management of the availability, usability, and integrity, and security of company data
a company who follows this has specified who is accountable for various portions or aspects of the data, including its accuracy, accessibility, consistency, timeliness, and completeness |
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| maintains information about various types of objects (inventory), events (transactions) , people (employees), and places (warehouses) |
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| database management system (DBMS) |
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| creates, reads, updates, and deletes data in a database while controlling access and security |
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| helps users graphically design the answer to a question against a database |
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