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The number of transistors per square inch on an integrated chip doubles every 18 months.
Because of Moore's Law, the cost of data processing, communications and storage is essentially zero. |
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| the ability to make and manipulate models |
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| the ability to model the components of the system to connect the inputs and outputs among those components into a sensible whole that reflects the structure and dynamics of the phenomenon observed. |
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| the activity of two or more people working together to achieve a common goal, result, or work product. |
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| making a reasoned analysis of an opportunity, envisioning potential solutions, evaluating those possibilities, and developing the most promising ones, consistent with the resources you have. |
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| a group of components that interact to achieve some purpose. |
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| an assembly of hardware, software, data, procedures and people that produces information. |
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| Information Technology (IT) - |
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| refers to the products, methods, inventions and standards that are used for the purpose of producing information. |
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| a network or activities for accomplishing a business function. |
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| a graphical arrangement in which all of the activities for a given role (job type) are shown in a single vertical lane. |
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| specific task to be accomplished in a process |
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| questions to be answered yes or no |
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| person, group, department, organization or information system. |
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| people, or facilities, or computer programs assigned to roles. |
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| collection of business records (data that is stored) |
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| the amount of money that a customer is willing to pay for a resource, product or service. |
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| a network of value-creating activities. |
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| The idea that objects are becoming connected to the internet so that they can interact with other devices, applications or services. |
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| Hierarchy of Data Elements |
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1-Table or File
2-Records or Rows
3-Field or Columns
4-Bytes of characters |
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| a column or group of columns that identifies a unique row in a table. |
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| keys of a different table than the one in which they reside. |
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| database management system (DBMS) |
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| a program used to create, process, and administer a database |
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| Structured Query Language (SQL) |
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| an international standard language for processing a database. |
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| a collection of forms, queries, reports and application programs that serves as an intermediary between users and database data. |
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| view data; insert new, update existing, and delete existing data. |
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| structured presentation of data using sorting, grouping, filtering and other operations. |
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| search base upon data values provided by the user. |
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| provide security, data consistency, and special-purpose processing, e.g., handle out-of-stock situations. |
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| Database administration functions |
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-backing up database data
-adding structures to improve performance of database applications
-removing data that are no longer wanted or needed. |
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| the elastic leasing of pooled computer resources over the internet. |
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| platform as a service (PaaS) |
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-vendors provide hosted computers, an operating system, and possibly a DBMS.
example...Microsoft azure, Oracle on Demand |
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| software as a service (SaaS) |
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| a cloud based service offering, providing hardware infrastructure, an operating system and application programs. Example..salesforce.com, google grid, onedrive, Apple iCloud |
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| Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) |
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| most basic cloud offering, cloud hosting of a bare server computer or data storage. example...Amazon EC2, Amazon S3 |
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| Virtual Private Network (VPN) |
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| uses the internet to create the appearance of private, secure connections. |
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| Personal information systems |
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| information system used by a single individual. one user |
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| workgroup information system |
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| facilitates the activities of a group of people. 10-100 users |
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| Enterprise information system |
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| -information systems that span an organization and support activities of people in multiple departments.100-1000's of users, procedures formalized; difficult to change |
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| - information systems that are shared by two or more organizations. 1000's of users (PRIDE), procedures formalized; problem solutions affect multiple organizations; difficult to change |
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| a condition that exists when data are isolated in separated information systems. |
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| business process re-engineering |
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| the activity of altering existing and designing new business processes to take advantage of new information systems. |
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| a group of people working together to achieve a common goal. |
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| a process for which there is not agreed-on decision-making method. |
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| a process for which there is an agreed upon decision-making method. |
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| track changes to documents and provide features and functions to accommodate concurrent work. Google Drive |
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| the process that occurs when the collaboration toll limits, and sometimes even directs, user activity. Microsoft sharepoint |
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| enterprise resource planning ERP |
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| a suite of applications, called modules, a database and a set of inherent processes for consolidating business operations into a single, consistent computing platform. |
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