MIS Infrastructures
Mobile Business
100

What is an MIS Infrastructure?

Includes the plans for how a firm will build, deploy, use, and share its data, processes, and MIS assets

100

What is a Bandwidth?

The max amount of data that can pass from one point to another in a unit of time

200

What're the benefits of a solid MIS infrastructure?

Supporting Operations

Supporting Change

Supporting the Environment

200

What are the 3 Network Categories?

Local Area Network (LAN)

Wide Area Network (WAN)

Metropolitan Area Network (MAN)

300

What is Backup & Recovery?

The exact copy of a system’s information and the ability to get a system up and running in the event of a system crash or failure

300

What're the 3 Network Providers?

National Service Providers (NSPs)

National Access Points (NAPs)

Regional Service Provider (RSPs)

400

What are the 3 MIS Infrastructures?

Information MIS Infrastructure

Agile MIS Infrastructure

Sustainable MIS Infrastucture

400

What're the Benefits of a Connected World?

Sharing Resources

Providing Opportunities

Reducing Travel

500

What are the benefits of an Agile MIS Infrastructure? (name 4/7)

•Accessibility

•Availability

•Maintainability

•Portability

•Reliability

•Scalability

•Usability

500

Name 3/6 benefits of Business Mobility

Enhances mobility

Provides immediate data access

Increasing location and monitoring capability

Improves workflow

Provides mobile business opportunity

Provides alternative to writing