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Chapter 13 Flashcards

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Information Technology (IT)

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includes the equipment and techniques used to manage and process information

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Chief Information Officer (CIO)

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is responsible for managing all information resources; immense important responsibility

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Knowledge Worker

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develop or use knowledge; contribute to and benefit from information they use to perform planning, acquiring, searching, analyzing, organizing, storing, programming, producing, distributing, marketing, or selling functions

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Trading Hubs; E-Marketplace

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facilitate electronic commerce between businesses in specific industries

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Electronic Barter

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auction and exchange of goods

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Management Information Systems

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methods and equipments that provide information about all aspects of a firm’s operations

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Database

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an electronic filing system that collects and organizes data and information

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Database Management System (DBMS)

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quickly and easily enter, store, organize, select, and retrieve data in a database

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Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERP)

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bring together human resources, operations, and technology

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Computer Network

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is a group of two or more computer systems linked together by communications channels to share data; information networks include clients and servers

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Enterprise Software

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large programs with integrated modules that manages all of the company’s internal operations

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Local Area Network (LAN)

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lets people at one site exchange data and share the use of software and hardware from a variety of computer manufacturers

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Wide Area Network (WAN)

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connects computers at different sites via telecommunications media such as phone lines, satellites, and microwaves; Internet

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Modem

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connects the computer or a terminal to the telephone line and transmits data almost instantly, in less than a second

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Wireless Wide Area Networks (WWAN)

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used by telecommunications

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Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN)

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radius of 500ft indoors and 1,000ft outdoors can be extended with antennas, transmitters, and other devices; Wi-Fi

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Intranet

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private corporate networks; operates behind a firewall that prevents unauthorized access

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Enterprise Portal

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an internal website that provides proprietary corporate information to a defined user group

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Virtual Private Networks (VPN)

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connects two or more private networks over a public network

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Application Service Providers (ASP)

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provides Enterprise applications, collaborative applications, and applications for personal use

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Managed Service Providers (MSP)

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represents the next generation of ASPs, offers greater customization and expanded capabilities that include business processes and complete management of the network servers

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Management Information Systems

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users, hardware, and software that support decision-making

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Management Support Systems (MSS)

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a dynamic system that allows users to analyze data to make forecasts, identify business trends, and model business strategies; uses the internal master database to perform high-tech analysis

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Transaction Processing System (TPS)

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receives raw data from internal and external sources and prepares these data for storage in a database similar to a microcomputer database but vastly larger

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Batch Processing

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where data are collected over some time period and then processed together

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Online, real-time, Processing

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processes data as soon as they become available

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Data Warehouse

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combines many databases across the whole company into one central database that supports management decision-making

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Data Marts

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special subsets of a data warehouse that each deal with a single area of data

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Information Reporting System

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uses summary data collected by the TPS to produce both regularly scheduled and special reports

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Decision Support System (DSS)

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helps managers make decisions using interactive computer models that describe real-world processes

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Executive Information Systems (EIS)

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customized for an individual executive; provide specific information for strategic decisions

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Expert System

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gives managers advice similar to what they would get from a human consultant

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Knowledge Management (KM)

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focuses on researching, gathering, organizing, and sharing an organization’s collective knowledge to improve productivity, foster innovation, and gain a competitive advantage

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Key Logging Software

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copies and transmits a users keystrokes form selected sites to thieves

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Viruses

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destory the contents of a computers hard drive or damage files

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Worm

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spreads itself automatically from computer to computer ; doesn’t require email replicate and transmits itself into other systemsn

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Trojan Horse

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programs that look harmless and legitimate and trick the user into installing them; do no infect other files or self-replicate

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Piracy

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using software without a license takes revenue away from the company that developed the program

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Firewall

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hardware or software designed to prevent unauthorized access to or from a private network

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Data Mining

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sophisticated database applications that look for hidden patterns in a group of data

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Digital Forensics

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digital evidence taken from an individual’s computer or corporate networks - web pages, documents, email, pictures

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Digital Forensics Software

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safeguards electronic evidence used in investigations by creating a duplicate of a hard drive that an investigator can search by keywords, file type, or access date

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Grid/Cloud Computing (Utility or Peer-to-Peer Computing)

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provides a way to divide the job into many smaller tasks and dispute them to a virtual supercomputer consisting of many small computers linked into a common network

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