ADM1370

• Application


  a computer program designed to support a specific task or business process
• Business Intelligence System


  A system that provides computer-based support for complex, non-routine decisions, primarily for middle managers and knowledge workers.
• Computer-based information system


  system that uses computer technology to process data, information, and create knowledge
• Dashboard


  Present structured, summarized information about aspects of business important to executives
• Data


  description of things, events, activities, interactions that are reordered, classified, and stored, but not organized to convey any specific meaning
• Electronic commerce systems


  A type of interorganizational information system that enables organizations to conduct transactions, called business-to-business electronic commerce, and customers to conduct transactions with businesses, called business-to-consumer electronic commerce.
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems


  Information systems that correct a lack of communication among the functional area ISs by tightly integrating the functional area ISs via a common database
• Expert Systems


  A system that attempts to duplicate the work of human experts by applying reasoning capabilities, knowledge, and expertise within a specific domain
• functional area information systems


  A system that supports a articular functional area within the organization
• information


  data that have been organized so that they have meaning and value to the recipient
• Information System


  A system that collects, processes, stores, analyzes, and disseminates information for a specific purpose.
• Information Technology (IT)


  Any computer-based tool people use to work with information and to support an organization's information and information-processing needs.
• Information Technology infrastructure

  IT components plus IT services
• information technology services


  services performed by IT personnel - using IT components - such as developing information systems, overseeing security and risk, and managing data
• informed user


  understand more what is behind the applications, know who the IT/IS developers, designers, and administrators are and what they do.
• interorganizational information systems


  information systems that connect two or more organizations
• network


  a connecting system (wireline or wireless) that permits different computers to share resources
• software


  a program or collection of programs that enable the hardware to process data
• supply chain


  the flow of materials, information, money, and services from suppliers of raw materials through factories and warehouses to the end customers
• Transaction Processing System (TPS)


  a system that supports the monitoring, collection, storage, and processing of data from the organization's basic business transactions, each of which generates data
• Management Information Systems (MIS)


  the function that plans for, develops, implements, and maintains IT hardware, software, and applications that people use to support the goals of an organization
• Decision Support System (DSS)


  Models data and information to support managerial decisions
• blog


  a personal website, open to the public, in which the site creator expresses his or her feelings or opinions with a series of chronological entries
• blogosphere

  the millions of blogs on the web
• collaborative consumption


  peer-to-peer sharing or renting (crowdfunding, solar panels)
• mashup

  website that takes different content from a number of other websites and mixes them together to create a new kind of content
• Microblogging

  A form of blogging that allows users to write short messages (or capture an image or embedded video) and publish them.
• Really Simple Syndication (RSS)


  Allows you to receive the information you want, when you want it, without having to surf thousands of websites.
• social advertising


  advertising formats that make use of the social context of the user viewing the ad
• Social Capital


  the number of connections a person has within and between social networks
• Social Commerce


  The delivery of electronic commerce activities and transactions through social computing
• Social Computing


  A type of information technology that combines social behaviour and information systems to create value
• Social Network


  a social structure composed of individuals, groups, or organizations linked by values, visions, ideas, financial exchange, friendship, kinship, conflict, or trade
• Social Networking


  Activities performed using social software tools (e.g., blogging) or social networking features (e.g., media sharing).
• Social Shopping


  A method of electronic commerce that takes all of the key aspects of social networks—friends, groups, voting, comments, discussions, reviews, etc.—and focuses them on shopping.
• tag


  a keyword or term that describes a piece of information
• Web 2.0


  Encourages user participation, social interaction, and collaboration.Facilitate information sharing, user-centered design, and collaboration.Harness collective intelligence (wikis), deliver functionality of services.
• Web 2.0 media


  any website that provides user-generated media content and promotes tagging, rating, commenting, and other interactions among users and their media contributions
• wiki


  a website on which anyone can post material and make changes
• Web 1.0


  - the user is not involved-special skills and tools needed to author websites-brochure service