| 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 inter-network 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 inter-networked enterprise and its prospects, customers, suppliers, and other business partners. Includes business to- 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 inter-networked 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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| Information | Data placed in a meaningful and useful context for an end user.
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| Information Processing | A concept that covers both the traditional concept of processing numeric and alphabetic data and the processing of text, images, and voices. It emphasizes that the production of information products for users should be the focus of processing activities.
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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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| 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 prespecified reports, displays, and responses on a periodic, exception, demand, or push reporting basis.
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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.
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