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Flashcards by Michelle Gregory, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Michelle Gregory
about 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What are the benefits of being an informed IS user? | Provide input into IT applications Participate in selection of IT applications Keep up with rapid developments Understand impacts and make recommendations Play role in managing IS Use IT in own business |
| What are the types of computer-based information systems in an organisation? | Transaction Processing Systems Functional Area IS Interorganisational IS Enterprise resource planning ERP e-Commerce Office Automations systems Business Intelligence Expert systems |
| Potential IT impacts on managers | May reduce the number of middle managers Real-time or near real-time information therefore less time to make decisions Managing geographically dispersed employees |
| IT impacts on non-managerial workers | Eliminate jobs Loss of identity Job stress Physical problems eg RSI |
| Positive societal effect of IT | opportunities for people with disabilities Flexibility Automate mundane chores Improve health care |
| Negative societal effects of IT | Health problems eg RSI or sedentary lifestyle Constant contact and related stress Isolation |
| Business Intelligence System | Provide computer-based support for complex, non-routine decisions, primarily for middle managers and knowledge workers. |
| Data Items | Elementary descriptions of things, events, activities and transactions that are recorded, classified and stored but are not organised to convey any specific meaning. |
| Enterprise Resource Planning ERP systems | An IS that correct a lack of communication among functional area information systems by tightly integrating the functional area ISs via a common database. |
| Expert Systems | Attempt to duplicate the work of human experts by applying reasoning capabilities, knowledge and expertise within a specific domain. |
| Functional Area Information System FAIS | ISs that support a particular functional area within the organisation. |
| Information | Data that have been organised so that they have meaning and value to the recipient. |
| Information System | Collects processes, stores, analyses and disseminates information for a specific purpose. |
| Knowledge | Data and/or information that have been organised 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. |
| Office Automation Systems OAS | Typically support clerical staff, lower and middle managers, and knowledge workers to develop documents, schedule resources and communicate. |
| Transaction Processing System | Supports the monitoring, collection, storage and processing of data from the organisation's basic business transactions, each of which generates data. |
| AJAX | A web development technique that allows portions of web pages to reload with fresh data rather than requiring the entire web page to reload. |
| Collaborative consumption | Peer-to-peer sharing or renting |
| Crowdsourcing | The process of taking a job traditionally performed by an employee or consultant and outsourcing it to an undefined group of people in the form of an open call. |
| Mashup | Website that takes different content from a number of other websites and mixes them together to create a new kind of content. |
| 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 websites. |
| Social Computing | A type of information technology that combines social behaviour and information systems to create value. |
| Social Intelligence | The monitoring, collection and analysis of socially generated data and the resultant strategic decisions. |
| Affinity Portal | A website that offers a single point of entry to an entire community of affiliated interests. |
| Backbone Networks | High-speed central networks to which multiple smaller networks (such as LANs and smaller WANs) connect. |
| Client/Server computing | Form of distributed processing in which some machines (servers) perform computing functions for end-user PCs (clients) |
| Corporate Portal | A website that provides a single point of access to critical business information located inside and outside of the organisation. |
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