Information Systems – Practice Midterm #1 Questions Covering Sessions 1 to 4 Question 1 (10 marks – 30 minutes) Greenville Hospital is a modern facility that prides itself on having accurate patient information and well integrated accounting systems. The hospital is always looking for new ways to use computer systems so that its medical staff can spend more time with patients. The hospital has an up-to-date hardware and software infrastructure using wire-based systems. Required:
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of design concepts is an area of design research that has been under considerable interest over the years. The level of success of product designs achieved depends significantly on the initial concept at the conceptual design stage. Inappropriate decision making during design concepts selection at the conceptual design stage can cause the product to be redesigned or remanufactured. To overcome such problem‚ this paper proposed a concept selection model called concurrent design concept selection and
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Sensitivity analysis‚ what-if analysis‚ and goal seeking analysis are used for same purpose to analyze complex relationships among millions of data items to discover business patterns‚ trends. All of them are part of Decision support systems (DSS) analysis techniques. It helps managers to explore possible alternatives. What-If Analysis: In what-if analysis‚ an end user makes changes to variables‚ or relationships among variables‚ and observes the resulting changes in the values of
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files with their customer’s numbers‚ customer name and contact service person. While there may be many fields to a file each field has a unique Primary Key. The database used at Wal-Mart are CRM system and Retail Link.CRM helps with the tracking of customers‚ while Retail Link is a decision support system for suppliers and retailer. The brand of database software that is used in NCR’s Teradata
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III . (A) Discuss the purchase order management process? (7) (B)What is data mining? (6) (C)Give importance of package evaluation in the ERP implementation lifecycle? (7) Q. IV. (A)Write a short note on MIS? How it differs from data processing system? (7) (B)Explain any 2 subsystems under HR module? (7) (C)What are the drawbacks of in-house development of ERP?(6) Q. V. (A)Differentiate between Data Mining & Data Warehousing? (7) (B)Describe functions of material management? (7) (C)
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Mary K Moore-Hudson Capella University Professor Ted Framan Lowes uses several resources for information to help build their marketing decision support system and its customer relationship management. Market research technology is a big benefit for making marketing decision. The use of powerful software tools and online technologies bring research to any level in the organization (Johnson & Marshall‚ 2010 p.139). One source of marketing research
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1. What kinds of systems are described in this case? Identify and describe the business processes each supports. Describe the inputs‚ processes‚ and outputs of these systems. ANS: Transaction processing system They taking and customizing orders using a touch-screen interface‚ maintaining sales figures‚ and compiling customer information. Input: Customer orders‚ purchase orders etc. Processes: store the record into their database Output: income statement‚ customer information‚ sold information
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development of the new ERP SHOROUQ system in NBK‚ the company has been changed essentially. The new system was originally developed according to the group’s mission to establish a leadership position across the region. This is why an IT transformation project including a full revamp of the core systems and associated decision support tools with more focus towards Business Intelligence (BI) was urgent and pertinent to the company’s customer focus 2) The old system‚ prior to SHOROUQ‚ was completely
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needs that required the system to be built in-house‚ as opposed to purchasing a prepackaged system. The company may also have viewed its information systems as helping it achieve a competitive advantage. The company had several options‚ such as purchasing a system off-the-shelf‚ implementing an enterprise-wide system‚ hiring a company to develop and run the software on its own computers‚ or hiring a consulting company to develop the system. B.) Enterprise-wide systems allow companies of all
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Chapter 4. Computer-based Accounting Systems: Practice The previous two chapters attempted to identify the characteristics of "good" accounting systems by reviewing the normative and empirical literature. This chapter begins the right-hand branch of the four-chapter Requirements Determination process illustrated in the lower half of Figure 1.1: it surveys the present state of computer-based accounting practice; Chapter 5 reviews computer-based accounting systems theory. Opportunities and problems
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