MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS 2009 ENDSEM

1 . Enterprise collaboration systems is a type of information system (is). ECS is a combination of groupware, tools, internet, extranets and other networks needed to support enterprise-wide communications, such as the sharing of documents and knowledge to specific teams and individuals within the enterprise.

Some examples of enterprise communication tools include e-mail, videoconferencing, collaborative document sharing, project management tools and others.

The objective of an ECS is to provide each user with the tools for managing communications, documents and other information that individuals need to manage their own tasks efficiently in their departments.

3. Information systems play a vital role in the e-business and e-commerce operations, enterprise collaboration and management, and strategic success of businesses that must operate in an internetworked global environment. Thus, the field of information systems has become a major functional area of business administration.

4. Data is raw material & unorganized facts that need to be processed

When data are processed, organized, structured or presented in a given context so as to make them useful, they are called information.

5. A transaction processing system is a type of information system. TPSs collect, store, modify, and retrieve the transactions of an organization.

6. Stands for "garbage in, garbage out." it means that if invalid data is entered in a computer program, the resulting output will also be invalid.

So if a program asked you to enter a letter of the alphabet and you enters a number you will get an error. Because we computer users aren't always smart enough to enter valid data, programmers have to take extensive measures to prevent gigo errors.

8. Knowledge based system - software that uses artificial intelligence or expert system techniques in problem solving processes. It incorporates a store (database) of expert knowledge with couplings and linkages designed to facilitate its retrieval in response to specific queries, or to transfer expertise from one domain of knowledge to another.

10. A system which seeks to merge the activities associated with human resource management (HRM) and information technology (IT) into one common database through the use of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. The goal of HRIS is to merge the different parts of human resources, including payroll, labor productivity, and benefit management into a less capital-intensive system than the mainframes used to manage activities in the past. Also called Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS)

12. In Simple Words Metadata Would Be "Data About Data Contents" Metadata Describes Other Data. It Provides Information About A Certain Item's Content.

For Example, An Image May Include Metadata That Describes How Large The Picture Is, The Color Depth, The Image Resolution, When The Image Was Created, And Other Data. A Text Document's Metadata May Contain Information About How Long The Document Is, Who The Author Is, When The Document Was Written, And A Short Summary Of The Document.

17. Data mining, a branch of computer science, is the process of extracting patterns from large data sets by combining methods from statistics and artificial intelligence with database management. Data mining is seen as an increasingly important tool by modern business to transform data into business intelligence giving an informational advantage. It is currently used in a wide range of profiling practices, such as marketing, surveillance, fraud detection, and scientific discovery.

19. GDSS are used to assist groups of decision makers who have common or overlapping responsibilities, such as executive committees, task forces, and work teams. Some of these tools are designed to be used directly when the group is convened. One example is tallying and processing group member preferences, and then presenting output for the participants to discuss.

A videoconference is a set of interactive telecommunication technologies which allow two or more locations to interact via two-way video and audio transmissions simultaneously. It has also been called 'visual collaboration' and is a type of groupware.

Videoconferencing differs from videophone calls in that it's designed to serve a conference rather than individuals. It is an intermediate form of videotelephony, first deployed commercially by AT&T during the early 1970s using their Picture phone technology.