Created by Sonam Bhuka
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Question | Answer |
IT management | activities which direct to increasing the stability of the system and ensuring that information is secure and backed-up |
COTS | commercial off-the-shelf: a product which is available in a standard form, not designed for a particular customer |
ICT | = information and communication technology |
open-source platforms | platforms which are designed and improved by users, owned by no-one |
pervasive | durchdringend, allgegenwärtig |
the convergence | Annäherung |
a) a brick-and-mortar b) a clicks-and-mortar company | a) business with no online presence b) mixed, business with some part of their business on the web, but also physical premises (=Räumlichkeiten) |
e-commerce | refers to the part of e-business related to buying and selling. it means setting up an electronic shop front, shoppers put their items in an electronic trolley and checkout |
fraud | Betrug, Missbrauch |
piracy | Piraterie: companies have to protect their intellectual property against it |
a database server | stores customer data and product information |
an application server | is responsible for calculations and program logic; it retrieves data from the database server and feeds it to the web server |
a web server | is responsible for the interface and graphics; it presents the web page to the user |
a browser | a software application: allows the customer to interact with the company's web server |
CRM | term of marketing: customer relationship management |
MRP & CIM | a term of production/operations: material requirements planning & computer integrated manufacturing |
ERP | enterprise resource planning: manages all stages in the supply chain |
a data warehouse | place where all the databases and documents from across the organization are stored |
MIS | part of the ERP; management information system: a decision-making tool which allows managers to extract useful knowledge (identifies pattern and trends by retrieving data from the data warehouse) |
a) LAN b) WAN | a) local area network: allows single-user workstations to share data, eg inside a company building b) wide area network: a geographically dispersed LAN |
a legacy system | an old IT system which is still in use |
the bandwidth | the rate at which data can pass through a communication channel |
to embed | = einbetten: to incorporate something physically into another object |
datamining | process of retrieving date from the data warehouse in order to turn it into useful information |
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