A business function, like accounting and human re-
sources, which moves information about people, products
and processes across the company to facilitate decision
Management Information Systems (MIS) making and problem solving
Commonly used for running credit cards, looking up
showtimes and online banking
Responsible for collecting, maintaining and distributing
Chief Knowledge Oflce (CKO)
company knowledge
Responsible for ensuring the security of the business sys-
Chief Security Oflce (CSO) tems and developing strategies and safeguards against
attack by hackers and viruses
Responsible for overseeing all uses of MIS and ensuring
Chief Information Oflcer (CIO) that MIS strategically aligns with business goals and ob-
jectives
Responsible for determining the types of information the
Chief Data Oflcer (CDO)
enterprise will capture, retain, analyze and share
Responsible for ensuring the speed, accuracy, availability
Chief Technology Oflcer (CTO)
and reliability of the MIS
Responsible for ensuring the ethical and legal use of in-
Chief Privacy Oflcer (CPO)
formation within a company
Accounting Records, measure and reports monetary transactions
Sales Performs the function of selling goods or services
Tracks strategic financial issues, including money, bank-
Finance
ing, credit investment and assets
Maintains policies, plans and procedures for the ettective
Human Resoruces
management of employees
Marketing
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Supports sales by planning, pricing and promoting
goods/services
Manages the process of converting or transforming re-
Operations Management
sources into goods or services
Raw facts that describe the characteristics of an event or
object
Data
Ex. Order date, amount sold, customer number, quantity
ordered
Data converted into meaningful and useful context
Information
Ex. Best selling product, best customer, worst selling prod-
uct, worst customer
Information collected from multiple sources that analyzes
patterns, trends and relationships for strategic decision
making
Business Intelligence
Ex. Lowest sales per week compared with the economic
interest rates, best selling product compared to sports
season and city team wins and losses
Behavioral Analysis uses data about behavior to predict actions
Correlation Analysis determines relationship between variables
Exploratory Analysis Finding patterns in sets of data
Classifies and labels a pattern in the machine learning
Pattern recognition
process
Social Media Analysis analyzing text flowing across internet
Analyzes recorded calls to gather info of where to send
Speech analysis
caller
Text Analysis Patterns in words and sentences