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| The combination of people, information technology, and business processes to accomplish a business objective. |
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| Describes how best to represent information—especially quantitative information—so that it communicates clearly and truthfully. |
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| systems development life cycle (SDLC) |
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| A method for designing information systems. The life cycle proceeds through the following stages: an analysis of the current state, development of requirements, design of a solution, development from the design and finally to implementation or roll out of the solution. |
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| information systems architecture |
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| The high level view of corporate systems—usually divided into enterprise systems, knowledge management/collaboration systems and business intelligence systems. |
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| Systems that manage day to day transactions of the business. |
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| enterprise resource planning |
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| The largest systems of all. ERP systems tie together all aspects of the business from accounting to the shop floor. |
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| A form of Business Intelligence that automatically looks for trends or patterns in the data. |
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| knowledge management systems |
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| Capture and index knowledge from past projects usually in text form. |
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| The opposite of contrast. Layouts demonstrating affinity show subtle variations in color or brightness. |
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| A way to categorize groups of people using age, income level, gender, education level, home ownership, and so forth. |
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| A group of potential customers for a product or service. Segments are typically identified by demographics. |
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| The idea that a brand’s power depends on its uniqueness |
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| Accessing development software that lives in the cloud. The major advantage is that the development process tends to be greatly simplified. |
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| An unfortunate reuse of the word template—page template refers to whether or not a given page will have collaboration elements on it—e.g., allowing users to post comments on the page. By contrast, the site template described earlier refers to the layout and pages of the entire site. |
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| The ability to capture and store information gathered from a form into a database. Database integration also refers to the ability to extract and display information from a database on a website. |
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