ADM1370- cassie_garagan (2020)

• 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


  an information system that uses computer technology to perform some or all of its intended tasks
• Dashboard (or digital dashboard)


  a special form of IS that supports all managers of the organization by providing rapid access to timely information and direct access to structured information in the form of reports
• data items


  an elementary description of things, events, activities, and transactions that are recorded, classified, and stored but are not organized to convey any specific meaning
• database


  a collection of related files or tables containing data-serves many applications by centralizing data and controlling others
• 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
• Ergonomics


  the science of adapting machines and work environments to people; focuses on creating an environment that is safe, well lit, and comfortable
• 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
• Hardware


  A device such as a processor, monitor, keyboard, or printer. Together, these devices accept, process, and display data and information.
• 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.-the acquisition, processing, storage, and distribution of voice, graphics, test, and numbers, and other information by a combination of computers and telecommunication networks
• Information Technology (IT)


  the acquisition, processing, storage, and distribution of voice, graphics, test, and numbers, and other information by a combination of computers and telecommunication networks
• information technology components


  hardware, software, databases, and networks
• Information Technology infrastructure

  IT components plus IT services
• information technology platform


  Formed by the IT components of hardware, software, networks (wireline and wireless), and databases.
• 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


  a person knowledgeable about information systems and information technology
• interorganizational information systems


  information systems that connect two or more organizations
• knowledge


  Data and/or information that have been organized and processed to convey understanding, experience, accumulated learning, and expertise as they apply to a current problem or activity.
• knowledge workers


  Professional employees such as financial and marketing analysts, engineers, lawyers, and accountants, who are experts in a particular subject area and create information and knowledge, which they integrate into the business.
• network


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


  software that supports the daily work activities of individuals and groups, such as software in order to process information and generate the desired output
• procedures


  The set of instructions for combining hardware, software, database, and network components in order to process information and generate the desired output.
• 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-handles data for the operational level-performs OLAP for transactional 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 -performs OLAP
• Executive information system (EIS)


  -highly aggregated data for strategic decisions-highly interactive IT system that allows you to first view highly summarized information and then choose how you would like to see greater detail
• 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
• 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)


  -A technology that allows users to receive the information they want, when they want it, without having to surf thousands of Web sites.-a standardized data format to publish frequently updated works such as blog entries and news headlines-made available to end-users through web feeds
• web feeds


  is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content
• social advertising


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