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| maintains information about various types of objects (inventory), events (transactions), people (employees), and places (warehouses) |
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| Relational Database Model |
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| a type of database that stores information in the form of logically related two-dimensional tables |
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| a person, place, thing, transaction, or event about which information is stored |
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| are characteristics or properties of an entity class--also called columns |
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| is a field (or group of fields) that uniquely identifies a given entity in a table |
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| a primary key of one table that appears as an attribute in another table and acts to provide a logical relationship between the two tables |
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| a primary that is made up with two or more fields |
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| is a logical collection of information--gathered from many different operational databases--that supports business analysis activities and decision-making tasks |
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| the process of analyzing data to extract information not offered by the raw data alone |
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| use a variety of techniques to find patterns and relationships in large volumes of information and infer rules from them that predict future behavior and guide decision making (i.e. query tools, reporting tools, statistical tools) |
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| Decision Support System (DSS) |
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| models information to support managers and business professionals during the decision-making process--typically contains data from internal sources |
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| Artificial Intelligence (AI) |
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| simulates human intelligence such as the ability to reason and learn |
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| computerized advisory programs that imitate the reasoning processes of experts in solving difficult problems--most commonly used form |
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| attempts to emulate the way the human brain works--most common types involve pattern or image recognition |
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| is a mathematical method of handling imprecise or subjective information |
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| Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) |
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| integrating all departments and functions throughout an organization into a single IT system so that managers and leaders can make enterprisewide decisions on all business operations |
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| Random Access Memory (RAM) |
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| the computer's primary working memory, in which program instructions and data are stored so that they can be accessed directly by the CPU via the processor's high-speed external data bus |
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| the portion of a computer's primary storage that does not lose its contents when one switches off the power |
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| roughly 1,000,000,000 bytes |
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| a group of eight bits represents one natural language character |
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| an omnidirectional wireless technology that provides limited-range voice and data transmission over the unlicensed 2.4-GHz frequency band, allowing connections with a wide variety of fixed and portable devices that normally would have to be cabled together |
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| Management Information Systems (MIS) |
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| a general name for the business function and academic discipline covering the application of people, technologies, and procedures - collectively call information systems - to solve business problems |
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| a computer that is designed to request information from a server |
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| a computer that is dedicated to providing information in response to external requests |
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| an intelligent connecting device that examines each packet of data it receives and then decides which way to send it onward toward its destination |
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| a device that modulates an analog carrier signal to encode digital information |
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| a link between two computer programs allowing them to share information and bypass certain protocols on a host computer |
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| a form of advertising on the World Wide Web delivered by an ad server |
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| the set of rules that define the combinations of symbols that are considered to be correctly structured programs in that language |
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| the space where interaction between humans and machines occurs |
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| any small application that performs one specific task that runs within the scope of a larger program, often as a plug-in |
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| designed to search for information on the World Wide Web |
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| a unit of information roughly corresponding to a grapheme |
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| the basic unit of information stored by a digital device (8 bits= 1 byte) |
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