Data versus Information
1 ,Data
2, information
3,knowledge.
1, Data raw facts, such as an employee 's name and number of hours worked in a week, inventory part numbers, or sales orders .several types of data can be used to represent these facts
Data
Represented by alphanumeric data numbers, letters, and other characters image data graphic images or pictures audio data sound, noise, or tones video data moving images or pictures
2.Information: a collection of facts organized in such a way that they have additional value beyond the value of the facts themselves.
3. Knowledge : is an awareness and understanding of a set of information and how that information can be made useful to support a specific task to reach a decision.
Data -------> The transformation process------> Information
(applying knowledge by selecting, organizing and manipulating data.
2, Compare and contrast components and purposes of Information Technology (IT) and Information Systems (IS) in organizations.
Information Systems is a large umbrella referring to systems designed to create, store, manipulate, or disseminate information. Example of an information system is a pencil and a piece of paper. The two objects themselves are just tools, but together they create a system for writing (information). The term Information systems has been around a lot longer than the computer, or the term information technology. .
Information technology falls under the information systems umbrella, but has nothing to do with systems per say. IT deals with the technology involved in the systems themselves, e.g. an information system like wiki.answers.com contains many information technologies. Servers, server operating systems, web-server software (IIS, Apache, et al), and code written for the web-server software (PHP, C#, VB, PERL, Ruby, et al). Even your computer