The Database Approach
The same data stored in multiple locations.
What is Data Redundancy
A network of computers that have been compromised by, and under control of, a hacker, who is called the botmaster.
What is a Botnet.
A Web site that offers a single point of entry to an entire community of affiliated interests.
What is an Affinity Portal.
The most popular query language used for interacting with a database.
What is Structured Query Language (SQL).
Applications cannot access data associated with other applications.
What is Data Isolation
A third party that acts as a trusted intermediary between computers (and companies) by issuing digital certificates and verifying the worth and integrity of the certificates.
What is Certificate Authority.
High-speed central networks to which multiple smaller networks (e.g., LANs and smaller WANs) connect.
What are Backbone Networks.
The use of modern information technologies—the Internet, intranets, extranets, databases—to systematize, enhance, and expedite intrafirm and interfirm knowledge management.
What is a Knowledge Management Systems (KMS)
Various copies of the data do not agree.
What is Data Inconsistency.
Small amounts of information that Web sites store on your computer, temporarily or more or less permanently.
What is a Cookie.
A common local area network protocol.
What is Ethernet.
the cumulative store of subjective or experiential learning. In an organization, tacit knowledge consists of an organization’s experiences, insights, expertise, know-how, trade secrets, skill sets, understanding, and learning.
What is Tacit Knowledge.
Data meets certain constraints. For example, there are no alphabetic characters in a Social Security number field.
What is Data Integrity.
A grant that provides the creator of intellectual property with ownership of it for a specified period of time, currently the life of the creator plus 70 years.
What is Copyright.
A network that connects parts of the intranets of different organizations.
What is Extranet.
Deals with more objective, rational, and technical knowledge. In an organization, explicit knowledge consists of the policies, procedural guides, reports, products, strategies, goals, core competencies, and IT infrastructure of the enterprise.
What is Explicit Knowledge
Applications and data are independent of one another; that is, applications and data are not linked to each other, so all applications are able to access the same data.
What is Data Independence.
Illegal activities executed on the Internet.
The communications standard used to transfer pages across the WWW portion of the Internet; defines how messages are formulated and transmitted.
What is Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP).
A process that helps organizations manipulate important knowledge that comprises part of the organization’s memory, usually in an unstructured format.
What is Knowledge Management.