What is an I.S.?
The three primary components of an information system.
What are people, processes, and technology?
The linkage between an organization’s suppliers, manufacturing facilities and the distributors of products.
What is a Supply Chain?
A structured and risk-averse development strategy designed to manage large projects with multiple developers and systems with the potential to have a large impact on the organization.
What is SDLC or the waterfall method?
Information that has been aggregated and analyzed to make decisions.
What is Knowledge?
A unique identifier for every record in a table serving as the common field that links tables together
What is a primary key?
The raw ingredient for any information system.
What is data?
The process that organizations use to take data they are collecting and analyze it in the hopes of obtaining a competitive advantage
What is Business Intelligence?
This development strategy requires taking a team-oriented approach, one where tasks are not sequenced and instead are typically completed in "sprints" of 2 to six weeks each.
What is Agile?
Data about data.
What is metadata?
Data targeted for humans to process (including text, audio, video images etc.)
What is unstructured data?
The language of a technology (i.e., how you tell the hardware what to do)
What is software?
A software application designed to manage an organization’s customers.
What is a CRM or Customer Relationship Management tool?
The process of copying data from databases into the data warehouse.
What is ETL or Extract Transform and Load?
Part of the front-end tier of the data warehouse architecture data is analyzed and used to optimize business performance.
What is OLAP (online analytical processing)?
It gives managers a comprehensive view of the business while minimizing information overload.
What is the balanced scorecard?
Paul (2010) defines an information system this way.
What is "An I.S. is I.T. in Use"?
One of the benefits of this system is that all parts of the organization can easily and immediately access information stored.
What is an Enterprise Resource Planning system?
A system implementation strategy in which functions of the new system are used as old functions from the old system are turned off.
What is a phased approach?
An organized collection of related information.
What is a database?
These metrics help you answer the question: "How are we doing?"
What are KPIs (Key Performance Indicators)?
As an organizational model, an I.S. should ________ along with the organization.
What is "change"?
Blogs, wikis, internal websites are all examples of this type of information system.
What is a knowledge management system?
This term is used to describe older systems built on aging or obsolete architectures that continue to be in use because they still function and the cost of replacement is high.
The process of designing a database in a way that 1) reduces duplication of data between tables and 2) gives the table as much flexibility as possible is known as...
What is database normalization?
What is "glanceability" and "simplicity"?