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| Computer-Based Information System | An information system that uses computer hardware and software to perform its information processing activities. |
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| Control | (1) The systems component that evaluates feedback to determine whether the system is moving toward the achievement of its goal and then makes any necessary adjustments to the input and processing components of the system to ensure that proper output is produced. (2) A management function that involves observing and measuring organizational performance and environmental activities and modifying the plans and activities of the organization when necessary. |
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| Data | Facts or observations about physical phenomena or business transactions. More specifically, data are objective measurements of the attributes (characteristics) of entities such as people, places, things, and events. |
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| Electronic Business (e-Business) | The use of Internet technologies to internetwork and empower business processes, electronic commerce, and enterprise communication and collaboration within a company and with its customers, suppliers, and other business stakeholders. |
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| Electronic Commerce (e-Commerce) | The buying and selling, marketing and servicing, and delivery and payment of products, services, and information over the Internet, intranets, extranets, and other networks, between an internetworked enterprise and its prospects, customers, suppliers, and other business partners. Includes businessto- consumer (B2C), business-to-business (B2B), and consumer-to-consumer (C2C) e-commerce. |
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| Enterprise Collaboration Systems | The use of groupware tools and the Internet, intranets, extranets, and other computer networks to support and enhance communication, coordination, collaboration, and resource sharing among teams and workgroups in an internetworked enterprise. |
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| Extranet | A network that links selected resources of a company with its customers, suppliers, and other business partners, using the Internet or private networks to link the organizations’ intranets. |
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| Feedback | (1) Data or information concerning the components and operations of a system. (2) The use of part of the output of a system as input to the system. |
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| Hardware resources | Media: All tangible objects on which data are recorded. |
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| Information | Data placed in a meaningful and useful context for an end user. |
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| Information System | (1) A set of people, procedures, and resources that collects, transforms, and disseminates information in an organization. (2) A system that accepts data resources as input and processes them into information products as output. |
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| Information system activities | Input: Pertaining to a device, process, or channel involved in the insertion of data into a data processing system. Opposite of Output. Output: Pertaining to a device, process, or channel involved with the transfer of data or information out of an information processing system. Opposite of Input. Storage: Pertaining to a device into which data can be entered, in which they can be held, and from which they can be retrieved at a later time. Same as Memory. Control: (1) The systems component that evaluates feedback to determine whether the system is moving toward the achievement of its goal and then makes any necessary adjustments to the input and processing components of the system to ensure that proper output is produced. (2) A management function that involves observing and measuring organizational performance and environmental activities and modifying the plans and activities of the organization when necessary. |
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| Information System Model | A conceptual framework that views an information system as a system that uses the resources of hardware (machines and media), software (programs and procedures), people (users and specialists), and networks (communications media and network support) to perform input, processing, output, storage, and control activities that transform data resources (databases and knowledge bases) into information products. |
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| Information Technology (IT) | Hardware, software, telecommunications, database management, and other information processing technologies used in computer based information systems. |
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| Intranet | An Internet-like network within an organization. Web browser software provides easy access to internal Web sites established by business units, teams, and individuals, and other network resources and applications. |
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| Knowledge Workers | People whose primary work activities include creating, using, and distributing information. |
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| Management Information System (MIS) | A management support system that produces pre-specified reports, displays, and responses on a periodic, exception, demand, or push reporting basis. |
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| People resources | IS specialists: A person whose occupation is related to the providing of information system services. For example, a systems analyst, programmer, or computer operator. End User: Anyone who uses an information system or the information it produces. |
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| Software resources | Programs: A set of instructions that causes a computer to perform a particular task. Procedures: Sets of instructions used by people to complete a task. |
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| System | (1) A group of interrelated or interacting elements forming a unified whole. (2) A group of interrelated components working together toward a common goal by accepting inputs and producing outputs in an organized transformation process. (3) An assembly of methods, procedures, or techniques unified by regulated interaction to form an organized whole. (4) An organized collection of people, machines, and methods required to accomplish a set of specific functions. |