FIBM- chapters 5 and 6 words

A model that can be used to analyze direct and indirect costs to help firms determine the actual cost of specific technology implementations.

total cost of ownership

An easy-to-use software tool with a graphical user interface for displaying web pages and for accessing the web and other Internet resources.

web browser

What are the most popular operating systems for mobile devices?

IOS, Android

A model of computing in which computer processing, storage, software, and other services are provided as a shared pool of virtualized resources over a network, primarily the Internet is called

cloud computing

The process of presenting a set of computing resources (such as computing power or data storage) so that they can all be accessed in ways that are not restricted by physical configuration or geographic location is

virtualization

The enterprise —— software is responsible for organizing and managing the firm’s data so that they can be efficiently accessed and use

database management

The shared technology resources that provide the platform for the firm’s specific information system applications is the

IT infrastructure

What are the most popular operating systems for coporate and personnal computer ?

MacOS, Windows 10

…are generally older transaction processing systems created for mainframe computers that continue to be used to avoid the high cost of replacing or redesigning them.

legacy systems

The law of mass digital storage states that the amount of digital information is roughly … every year

doubling

A data ... is an automated or manual file that stores definitions of data elements and their characteristics.

dictionary

An entity is a person, place, thing, or event on which we store and maintain information. Each characteristic or quality describing a particular entity is called an ....

attribute

Data ... boosts operational efficiency and decision-making by making more comprehensive and accurate data available, and by making it easier to access all of the business’s data in one place.

warehouse

Most database management systems (DBMS) have a specialized language called a ... ... language that is used to add, change, delete, and retrieve the data in the database. This language contains commands that permit end users and programming specialists to extract data from the database to satisfy information requests and develop applications. The most prominent data manipulation language today is Structured Query Language , or SQL.

data manipulation

The … , or logical, design of a database is an abstract model of the database from a business perspective, whereas the …. design shows how the database is actually arranged on direct-access storage devices.

conceptual, physical

A ... is a collection of data organized to serve many applications efficiently by centralizing the data and controlling redundant data.

database

The database management system (DBMS) can help eliminate data ... because the database management system (DBMS) helps the organization ensure that every occurrence of redundant data has the same values.

inconsistency

An ... is a person, place, thing, or event on which we store and maintain information. Each characteristic or quality describing a particular ... is called an attribute.

(one word fits all)

entity

A ... represents the smallest unit of data a computer can handle.

bit

Data ... is the presence of duplicate data in multiple data files so that the same data are stored in more than one place or location. It occurs when different groups in an organization independently collect the same piece of data and store it independently of each other.

redundancy