THIS EXAMINATION WILL NOT BE DEPOSITED IN THE LIBRARY RESERVE. Brock University FINAL EXAM‚ WINTER 2014 COURSE: ITIS 2P91 DATE: WEDNESDAY‚ APRIL 16‚ 2014 PLACE: WCIBDS – IAN D. BEDDIS GYM NUMBER OF PAGES: 21 NUMBER OF STUDENTS: 67 TIME: 14:00 - 16:00 NUMBER OF HOURS: 2 STUDENT NAME (PRINT):____________________________________________________ (Last Name) (First Name) STUDENT ID#: _______________________________________ SIGNATURE: _______________________________________
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Ryan Somma REVIEW QUESTIONS Chapter One 1. Why are information systems (IS) essential in organizations? Information systems standardize and enforce rules on business transactions‚ which helps to ensure quality of both service and process. IS informs management of a business’ health‚ mid-level managers of department needs and planning‚ employees of standard operating procedures‚ and customers of business services. IS also provides numerous communications tools for all levels of business‚
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Managing Information Technology Case Study 2: Cisco System Architecture: ERP and Web-enabled IT Cisco System Inc. is the leading company in the computer communications and networking industry. It became a public company since 1990‚ was founded in 1984 by two Stanford computer scientists‚ and the core business began with multi-protocol routers. It later continued to dominate the “Internetworking” market‚ which in turn reflected in its first year on Fortune 5000 in 1997
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anthropogenic pressure‚ there is a need for decision support systems (DSSs) and management tools that allow to tackle some of the environmental problems associated with this pressure and to allocate the different uses in a sustainable way. Most marine management tools are built around the Driver-Pressure-StateImpact-Response (DPSIR) framework‚ where indicators are selected which are able to quantify each of these different components. Other available decision support systems are impact assessments‚ spatial planning
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information system. With the revolution of Information Technology we are improving our decision making process more quick and smart. Data warehouse technology is the process of collection‚ sorting‚ structural formation‚ analysis‚ storing and presentation of data. So we say that data warehouse is the technology is overall data management system in the organization. In today’s business world we are facing huge competition. To secure enough profit we have no other way but to make most accurate decision quickly
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Bingtian‚Zhang; Tianshu‚Lu; Hui‚Niu; Yuguo‚Hou; Lin‚Zhu Table of Contents Introduction............................................................................................................................... .3 Taobao Information Systems Strategic Alignment .................................................................. 4 Business Strategies of Taobao’s E-commerce ........................................................................... 5 SWOT Analysis of Taobao...........
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era people of all colors from all parts of the world dominate business. Data collection is this era is very different and broad. we are now part of this era which is part of the global economy‚ businesses have customers across the world‚ and have systems that can collect data about overseas customers demands. Companies have manufacturing plants and offices in different parts of the world and are still well connected via internet. Q2: Explain Friedman’s flat world and the reasons it is important for
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business’s multiple operational data-bases. It comprises of software and hardware optimized for executive information systems (EIS) and decision support systems and is combined to run on-line analytical processing (OLAP)‚ rather than the on-line transaction processing which represents the operations world. The data stored in the warehouse is uploaded from the operational systems (such as marketing‚ sales etc.)‚ ERP‚ CRM etc. as shown in the figure below. The data may go through an operational data
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shipment. List typical fields for each type of data. Provide an example of two relationships that you need to track. Do you need a database system? If not‚ can Excel® handle the data and the output? What are the advantages and disadvantages? Would you use a personal database or an enterprise database? Explain your answer. Would a decision support system (DSS) be helpful? Explain your answer. Scenario 2: You manage a group of seven employees in a small consulting business. Some employees work
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Describe how managers can motivate group members to achieve organizational goals and reduce social loafing in groups and teams. What is This Thing Called “Group”? “Groups are open and complex systems that interact with the smaller systems (I.e.‚ the members) embedded within them and the larger systems (e.g.‚ organizations) within which they are embedded. Groups have fuzzy boundaries that both distinguish them from and connect them to their members and their embedding contexts.” 2 31/05/2013
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