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◉ World Wide Web. Answer: Client-server system
◉ Client-server. Answer: A client that makes a request, and a server
that receives and attempts to fulfill the request.
◉ Hardware/Software Layer Cake. Answer: You can think of
software as being part of a layer cake, with hardware at the bottom;
the operating system controlling the hardware and establishing
standards, the applications executing one layer up, and the users at
the top.
◉ Examples of a computing devices that use operating systems.
Answer: Enterprise-class server computers, PCs, phones, set-top
boxes, video games, cars, the Mars Rover
◉ Application Server. Answer: Software that houses and serves
business logic for use (and reuse) by multiple applications.
, ◉ What 7 business functions can an ERP system impact?. Answer:
Sales
Inventory
Manufacturing
Human Resources
Purchasing
Order Tracking
Decision Support
◉ Web Services. Answer: Software systems designed to support
interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network and
when computers can talk together (instead of people), this often
results in fewer errors, time savings, cost reductions, and can even
create whole new ways of doing business!
◉ Application programming interfaces (APIs). Answer: Each Web
service defines the standard method for other programs to request it
to perform a task and defines the kind of response the calling client
can expect back.
◉ Service-oriented architecture (SOA). Answer: Organizations that
have created a robust set of Web services around their processes
and procedures