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Informed User - Answer A person knowledgeable about information systems and information
technology
Why you should be an informed user - Answer 1. Benefit more from your organization's IT
applications
2. Be in a position to enhance the quality of your organization/s IT applications with your output
3. Quickly be in a position to recommend- and perhaps help select-the IT applications that your
organization will use
4. Keeps you abreast of both new information technology and rapid developments in existing
technologies
5. Understand how using IT can improve your organization's performance and teamwork as well
as your productivity
6. Entrepreneur
Data Items - Answer Refers to an elementary description of things, events, activities, and
transactions that are recorded , classified, and stored but are not organized to convey any
specific meaning.
Information - Answer Data that have been organized so that they have meaning and value to
the recipient
Knowledge - Answer Data and/or information that have been organized and processed to
convey understanding
Computer-based information system - Answer Information system that uses computer
technology to perform some or all of its intended tasks
Information technology components - Answer Hardware, Software, Database, network
Hardware - Answer Devices such as the processor, monitor, keyboard, and printer. Accept,
process and display data and information
Software - Answer Program or collection of programs that enable the hardware to process
data
,Database - Answer Collection of related files or tables containing data
Network - Answer Connecting system (wireless or wireline) that permits different computers
to share resources
Procedures - Answer Instructions for combining hardware, software, database and networks
to process information and generate the desired output
Information Technology Platform - Answer Use these components to develop information
systems, oversee security and risk, and manage data
Computer based information system capabilities - Answer -Perform high speed, high volume
numerical computations
-Provide fast, accurate communication and collaboration within and among organizations
-Store huge amounts of information in an easy-to-access, yet small space
-Allow quick and inexpensive access to vast amounts of information world wide
-Interpret vast amounts of data quickly and efficiently
-Automate both semiautomatic business processes and manual tasks
Application (App) - Answer Computer program designed to support a specific task or business
process
Departmental Information System - Answer Collection of apps in a single department
Product Analysis - Answer Developing new goods and services
Site Analysis - Answer Determining the best location for production and distribution facilities
Promotion Analysis - Answer Identifying the best advertising channels
Price Analysis - Answer Setting product prices to obtain the highest total revenues
Transaction Processing System - Answer Supports monitoring, collection, storage, and
processsing of data from the organization's basic business transactions, each of which generates
data
, Interorganizational Information Systems - Answer Support many interorganizational
operations, of which supply chain management is best known
Supply Chain - Answer Flow of materials, information, money, and services from suppliers of
raw materials through factories and warehouses to the end customers
Electronic Commerce Systems - Answer Enable organizations to conduct transactions, called
business to business electric commerce, and customers to conduct transactions with business,
called business to consumer
Knowledge Workers - Answer Professional employees such as financial and marketing
analysts, engineers, lawyers, and accountants.
Office Automation Systems (OASs) - Answer Typically support the clerical staff, lower and
middle managers, and knowledge workers
Business Intelligence Systems - Answer Provide computer-based support for complex,
nonroutine decisions, primarily for middle managers and knowledge workers
Expert Systems - Answer Attempt to duplicate the work of human experts by applying
reasoning capabilities, knowledge, and expertise within a specific domain
Dashboards - Answer Special form of IS that support all managers of the organiztion
Industries IT Impacts - Answer Book
Music
Video
Software
Videogame
Photography
Marketing
Recruiting
Financial Services
Motion Picture
Automobile
Agriculture
National Defense