Information Systems

Business Process Automation

Automate specific business functions with software design tools

Enterprise Resource Planning

Buy large expensive software that integrates main business functions into one interface

Enterprise Application Integration

Use a middleware to enble flow between applications

Fine-grained information

Pertaining to a singular event, information that would be for day to day operations

Coarse-grained Information

Describes a cluster of concepts that provides a general trend that provides info useful for management and strategic decisions

Heterogeneity

Computing involves many different types of software

(De)coupling

Making sure organisation is not tied to a single machine type, software platform or application vendor

Bandwith

Data transfer rate

Latency

Delays in communication

connections

Made up of links