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Flashcards by Sonam Bhuka, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Sonam Bhuka
almost 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| IT management | activities which direct to increasing the stability of the system and ensuring that information is secure and backed-up |
| COTS | commercial off-the-shelf: a product which is available in a standard form, not designed for a particular customer |
| ICT | = information and communication technology |
| open-source platforms | platforms which are designed and improved by users, owned by no-one |
| pervasive | durchdringend, allgegenwärtig |
| the convergence | Annäherung |
| a) a brick-and-mortar b) a clicks-and-mortar company | a) business with no online presence b) mixed, business with some part of their business on the web, but also physical premises (=Räumlichkeiten) |
| e-commerce | refers to the part of e-business related to buying and selling. it means setting up an electronic shop front, shoppers put their items in an electronic trolley and checkout |
| fraud | Betrug, Missbrauch |
| piracy | Piraterie: companies have to protect their intellectual property against it |
| a database server | stores customer data and product information |
| an application server | is responsible for calculations and program logic; it retrieves data from the database server and feeds it to the web server |
| a web server | is responsible for the interface and graphics; it presents the web page to the user |
| a browser | a software application: allows the customer to interact with the company's web server |
| CRM | term of marketing: customer relationship management |
| MRP & CIM | a term of production/operations: material requirements planning & computer integrated manufacturing |
| ERP | enterprise resource planning: manages all stages in the supply chain |
| a data warehouse | place where all the databases and documents from across the organization are stored |
| MIS | part of the ERP; management information system: a decision-making tool which allows managers to extract useful knowledge (identifies pattern and trends by retrieving data from the data warehouse) |
| a) LAN b) WAN | a) local area network: allows single-user workstations to share data, eg inside a company building b) wide area network: a geographically dispersed LAN |
| a legacy system | an old IT system which is still in use |
| the bandwidth | the rate at which data can pass through a communication channel |
| to embed | = einbetten: to incorporate something physically into another object |
| datamining | process of retrieving date from the data warehouse in order to turn it into useful information |
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