Section 1a
People who work with information.
Who are knowledge workers
Consists of a set of standards that have made the Internet accessible to the average person.
What is the World Wide Web, WWW or Web?
The name given to the data storage systems over widely dispersed Internet networks.
What is a cloud?
The top computer executive.
Who is the Chief information officer or CIO?
Combines and summarizes ongoing transactions within the company to provide top-level executives with information needed to make decisions affecting the goals and direction of an organization.
What is Executive Information System (EIS)?
The process of using data in databases to find relationships between individuals and their behavior or preferences.
What is Data mining?
A website owner’s unique name that identifies the site.
What is a domain name?
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12.1 Describe the role of information in a modern business
12.2 Describe how internet provides information to users
12.3 Describe the basic technology and infrastructure used by businesses
What are the learning outcomes for Chapter 12?
The facts and figures that businesses generate, and must be collected, processed, stored, and retrieved
What is data
The movement of information from one location to another electronically.
What is telecommunications?
A private company network that allows employees to share resources across various locations
What is intranet?
A collection of data organized in a way that makes the data easy to find, update, and manage
What is a database?
Using the Internet for telephone services.
What is voice over internet protocol, or VoIP?
A virtual community that allows users to post information about themselves and share that information with others.
What is a Social network?
A program that keeps track of shoppers’ selections as they shop, provides an order form for them to complete, and submits the form to the company through the Internet.
What is an electronic shopping cart?
Data processed in a meaningful way.
What is information?
A network of linked computers that serves users in a single building or building complex.
What is Local area network (LAN)
A secured, private network that companies use to share certain information with selected people outside the organization, such as suppliers and major customers.
What is Extranet?
A computer system that processes data into meaningful information.
What is a information system?
Uses special software that screens people who enter a network by requesting specific information such as passwords.
What is a firewall?
Uses communication technology to support business operations
What is an E-business?
Occurs when the median nerve, which runs through a tunnel in the wrist, is compressed or irritated.
What is carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS)?
the prediction that the amount of data that a computer chip could process would double about every 18 months.
What is Moore's Law?
A computer that stores data and application software for all workstations.
What is a server?
A program that helps users locate information on networks
What is a search engine?
Integrates data from various departments to make the information available to help managers with day-to-day business operations.
What is Management Information System (MIS)?
A computer that contains the software and stores the data for networks.
What is a Web Server?
The science of adapting equipment to the work and health needs of people.
What is ergonomics?
A worldwide network of linked computers that allows users to transfer data and information from one computer to another anywhere in the world
What is net or internet?
A network of linked computers that covers users in a geographic area such as a city, state, or country.
What is wide area network (WAN)?
Helps managers consider alternatives in making specific decisions.
What is Decision Support System (DSS)?
A private business that maintains the websites of individuals and organizations on its web servers for a fee.
What is a Web-hosting service?