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MIS Exam 1 Flashcards

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What are the 3 sides to the IS triangle?

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  1. ) People
  2. ) Processes
  3. ) IT
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What are the 2 drivers for the IS triangle?

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  1. ) Strategic Level

2. ) Operational Level

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What are the 3 types of IS?

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  1. ) Enterprise Systems (ES)
  2. ) Collaboration Systems (CS)
  3. ) Business Intelligence (BI)
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The Business Analyst is the link between __________________________ and _______________________

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Business Requirements (the client) and the Software Solutions (the development team)

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What is a business Process?

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A predefined way in which an organization performs its functions

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What is an Information System?

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A set of interrelated business components that create, collect, process, store, distribute, and produce information

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What does SDLC stand for?

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System Development Lifecycle

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What is the Goal of MIS?

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Integrating people, processes, and technology to solve business problems, create business opportunities, and enable strategy

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Do MIS professionals focus on the business or technology side of IT?

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Business

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What does effective Project Management help to ensure?

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Meeting of customer expectations and satisfying of budget and time constraints

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What is a project?

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A planned undertaking of related activities to reach an objective that has a beginning and an end

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What are projects constrained by?

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  1. ) Time
  2. ) Cost
  3. ) Scope
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What is the difference between projects and operations?

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projects are objective driven and are bound by time. Operations continually create and complete objectives using projects over time

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What are the 3 Project Characteristics?

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  1. ) Temporary
  2. ) Unique (Product, Service, Result)
  3. ) Progressive Elaborations
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What is a Deliverable?

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An end product of each phase

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What is Project Management?

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A controlled process of initiating, planning, executing, and closing down a project

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What are the 5 factors characterizing a project environment?

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  1. ) Cultural
  2. ) Physical
  3. ) Political
  4. ) Economic
  5. ) Social
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What are the Five Phases of the Project Management Process?

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  1. ) Initiation
  2. ) Planning
  3. ) Execution
  4. ) Monitoring
  5. ) Closedown
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What happens in the Initiation phase of the Project Management Process?

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Assess size, scope, and complexity, and establish procedures

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What is a Project Repository?

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An online or hard-copy repository that is used for performing audits, orienting new team members…

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What happens in the Project Planning phase of the Project Management Process?

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Define clear, discrete activities and the work needed to complete each activity

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When is the Work Breakdown Structure developed?

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In the Project Planning phase of the Project Management Process

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What is the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)?

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Division of project into manageable and logically ordered tasks and subtasks

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What happens in the Project Execution phase of the Project Management Process?

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Plans created in prior phases are put into action

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What happens in the Project Monitoring phase of the Project Management Process?

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This phase focuses on the measurement of project performance. All activity results within the project are compared to the project plan

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What happens in the Project Closedown phase of the Project Management Process?

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This brings the project to an end. You close down the project, conduct post-project reviews, and closes the contract

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What are the 10 steps in the Ten Step Project Management Structure?

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  1. ) Define the Work
  2. ) Build the Schedule and Budget
  3. ) Manage the Schedule and Budget
  4. ) Manage Issues
  5. ) Manage Scope
  6. ) Manage Communication
  7. ) Manage Risk
  8. ) Manage HR
  9. ) Manage Quality and Metrics
  10. ) Manage Procurement
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What are large-scale software programs?

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Enterprise Systems

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Examples of benefits of enterprise systems

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  1. ) Increased efficiency by eliminating numerous redundant systems
  2. ) Integration of business processes across the enterprise
  3. ) Automating or eliminating manual data entry to reduce errors
  4. ) Tighter controls on inventory and other assets
  5. ) Providing businesses with the opportunity to integrate its systems with its customers and suppliers
  6. ) Facilitating stronger customer relationships through better marketing and customer service
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What does ERP stand for?

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Enterprise Resource Planning

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What does CRM stand for?

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Customer Relationship Management

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What does SCM stand for?

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Supply Chain Management

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What are Computational Systems?

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Out of date systems that only perform one task

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What are Functional Systems?

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They grew from Computational Systems and included general functional areas

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What are Enterprise Systems?

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Integrate All key organizational functions across functional areas, breaking down traditional departmental silos. Involves the consolidation of data into one centralized database

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What type of Enterprise System is used for internal integration?

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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

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What type of enterprise systems integrate the various functional systems across the primary activities in business processes that interact with customers?

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Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

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What two type of enterprise systems are internal?

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What Type of Enterprise Systems are external?

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What type of system integrates functional systems into a single system that services all areas in a business?

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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

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What do ERP systems strive to do from a process standpoint?

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  1. ) Standardize business processes across the enterprise
  2. ) Reduce costs due to better inventory planning and labor need forecasting
  3. ) Promote better financial management
  4. ) Reduce overall production costs
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Examples of CRM benefits

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  1. ) Provide better customer service
  2. ) Make call centers more efficient
  3. ) Support sales force as they attract and secure new customers
  4. ) Retain existing customers
  5. ) Provide appropriate products and services to their customers
  6. ) Simplify marketing and sales processes
  7. ) Discover new customers
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Challenges of CRM

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It takes time to make all of the business processes customer centric

44
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What type of systems integrate inbound and outbound logistics activities across the various suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and customers?

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What are the 3 main things that SCM systems track?

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  1. ) Materials flow from suppliers and their “upstream” suppliers at all levels
  2. ) Transformation of materials into semi-finished and finished products through the organization’s own production process
  3. ) Distribution of products to customers and their “downstream” customers at all levels
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3 Benefits of SCM systems

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  1. ) Better able to forecast sales and adjust inventory and labor needs accordingly
  2. ) Able to provide customers with better service
  3. ) Able to identify inefficiencies in their processes and eliminate costly suppliers and customers
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Challenge of SCM

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Getting all areas of the supply chain to work together

48
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What system handles inventory management and logistics?

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Who are the primary users of CRM?

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Sales, marketing, customer service

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What are the primary business benefits of crm?

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Sales forecasts, Sales strategies, marketing campaigns

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Who are the primary users of SCM?

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Customers, Resellers, Partners, Suppliers, Distributors

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what are the primary business benefits of SCM?

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Market demand, resource and capacity constraints, real-time scheduling

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Who are the primary users of ERP?

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Accounting, Finance, Logistics, Production

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What are the primary business benefits of ERP?

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Forecasting, Planning, purchasing, material management, warehousing, inventory, distribution

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Who are the largest 3 players in CRM? (Biggest to smallest)

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  1. ) Salesforce
  2. ) SAP
  3. ) Oracle
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What are the 2 types of CRM?

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  1. ) Business -to-Business (B-to-B)

2. ) Business-to-consumer (B-to-C)

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What are the 4 main Functional areas of CRM?

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  1. ) Social Networks
  2. ) eCommerce
  3. ) Inside Sales
  4. ) Outside Sales
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What is a business process?

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A set of logically related business activities that combine to deliver something of value to a customer

59
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What are examples of functional departments?

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Sales, Marketing, Accounting, Finance

60
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Which is a better process flow, vertical, or horizontal through a company?

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Horizontal because the process can go seamlessly from department to department

61
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What is Business Process Design?

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The method by which an organization understands and defines the business activities that enable it to function

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What are the 5 Common drivers behind a business process design project?

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  1. ) The need to increase efficiency
  2. ) The need to evaluate business practice as part of an organizational development project
  3. ) The need to evaluate potential new business ventures or business offerings
  4. ) The need to manage the company’s knowledge resources
  5. ) The need to manage human resources
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What are the two phases of business process design?

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  1. ) Analysis

2. ) Design

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What are the 5 key components of a typical business process model?

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  1. ) The set of processes and activities that take place within the organization
  2. ) A text description of each process or activity
  3. ) Drawings
  4. ) Inputs and Outputs
  5. ) Key Performance Indicators
65
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What does Business Process Management (BPM) try to streamline tasks and activities to do?

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Deliver value to customers and drive more revenue

66
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What is the first tool that fosters ongoing collaboration between IT and business users to jointly build applications that effectively integrate: people, process and information.

67
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What is Business Process Definition (BPD)?

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A method of analyzing and documenting a process

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What is the goal of BPM?

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To understand the “As-Is” Process and to define the “To-Be” Process

69
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What are the 5 phases in which MIS professionals do their work?

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  1. ) Planning
  2. ) Analysis
  3. ) Design
  4. ) Development
  5. ) Implementation
70
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What are 3 reasons to Change Business Processes?

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  1. ) Improve the quality of the outcome or product of the process
  2. ) Improve the efficiency of the process
  3. ) Improve Agility
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How do you measure the success of a Process Change?

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Key Performance Indicators (KPI)

72
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In what phase of Process Changes do you look at the “as-is” and “to-be” analyses?

73
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What are the 3 types of KPI’s?

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  1. ) Cost
  2. ) Quality
  3. ) Time
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What is a Modeling Technique?

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Graphical Representation of processes that capture, manipulate, store, and distribute information between a system and users and among system components

75
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Why use Business Process Modeling?

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  1. ) Makes a process transparent

2. ) Maps and represents the links between business and technical architectures

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What are the 5 reasons we use activity Diagrams?

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  1. ) Depict flow of control from activity to activity
  2. ) Understand what actions need to take place
  3. ) Identifying extensions in a use case
  4. ) Model work flow and business processes
  5. ) Model the sequential and concurrent steps in a computation process
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What are the 5 elements of Activity Diagrams?

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  1. ) Activity
  2. ) Transition
  3. ) Branch
  4. ) Synchronization Bar
  5. ) Swimlanes
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What is Activity in Activity Diagrams?

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A behavior that an object carries out while in a particular state

79
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What is Transition in Activity Diagrams?

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A movement from one activity or state to another

80
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What is Branch in Activity Diagrams?

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A diamond symbol containing a condition whose results provide transitions to different paths of activities

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What is Synchronization Bar in Activity Diagrams?

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Horizontal or vertical bars denoting parallel or concurrent paths of activities

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What are Swimlanes in Activity Diagrams?

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Columns representing different organizational units of the system

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