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Business Information Systems Chapter 1
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- 1What 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 - 2What 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 - 3Potential IT impacts on managersMay reduce the number of middle managers
Real-time or near real-time information therefore less time to make decisions
Managing geographically dispersed employees - 4IT impacts on non-managerial workersEliminate jobs
Loss of identity
Job stress
Physical problems eg RSI - 5Positive societal effect of ITopportunities for people with disabilities
Flexibility
Automate mundane chores
Improve health care - 6Negative societal effects of ITHealth problems eg RSI or sedentary lifestyle
Constant contact and related stress
Isolation - 7Business Intelligence SystemProvide computer-based support for complex, non-routine decisions, primarily for middle managers and knowledge workers.
- 8Data ItemsElementary descriptions of things, events, activities and transactions that are recorded, classified and stored but are not organised to convey any specific meaning.
- 9Enterprise Resource Planning ERP systemsAn IS that correct a lack of communication among functional area information systems by tightly integrating the functional area ISs via a common database.
- 10Expert SystemsAttempt to duplicate the work of human experts by applying reasoning capabilities, knowledge and expertise within a specific domain.
- 11Functional Area Information System FAISISs that support a particular functional area within the organisation.
- 12InformationData that have been organised so that they have meaning and value to the recipient.
- 13Information SystemCollects processes, stores, analyses and disseminates information for a specific purpose.
- 14KnowledgeData 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.
- 15Knowledge WorkersProfessional 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.
- 16Office Automation Systems OASTypically support clerical staff, lower and middle managers, and knowledge workers to develop documents, schedule resources and communicate.
- 17Transaction Processing SystemSupports the monitoring, collection, storage and processing of data from the organisation's basic business transactions, each of which generates data.
- 18AJAXA web development technique that allows portions of web pages to reload with fresh data rather than requiring the entire web page to reload.
- 19Collaborative consumptionPeer-to-peer sharing or renting
- 20CrowdsourcingThe 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.
- 21MashupWebsite that takes different content from a number of other websites and mixes them together to create a new kind of content.
- 22Really Simple Syndication RSSA technology that allows users to receive the information they want, when they want it, without having to surf thousands of websites.
- 23Social ComputingA type of information technology that combines social behaviour and information systems to create value.
- 24Social IntelligenceThe monitoring, collection and analysis of socially generated data and the resultant strategic decisions.
- 25Affinity PortalA website that offers a single point of entry to an entire community of affiliated interests.
- 26Backbone NetworksHigh-speed central networks to which multiple smaller networks (such as LANs and smaller WANs) connect.
- 27Client/Server computingForm of distributed processing in which some machines (servers) perform computing functions for end-user PCs (clients)
- 28Corporate PortalA website that provides a single point of access to critical business information located inside and outside of the organisation.