Managing Information Technology

658 Part IV • The Information Management System there was a mandate that the system had to be imple- mented during Year 2000 and ...

telecom providers to implement the necessary communica- tions backbone for MaxFli. As a result, BATCA now has one of the best co ...

660 CASE STUDY IV-7 Meridian Hospital Systems, Inc.: Deciding Which IT Company to Join It was late October of 2009, and Willis “ ...

Case Study IV-7 • Meridian Hospital Systems, Inc.: Deciding Which IT Company to Join 661 And the job sounded interesting. Willie ...

662 Part IV • The Information Management System After an analysis of several industries, MHS’s founders chose hospitals as their ...

lower costs. MHS developers spent eight months in late 2007 and early 2008 developing such Web-based systems for hospitals. Howe ...

664 Part IV • The Information Management System grow substantially if we are to cover our costs. It’s a chal- lenge. Tell me, wh ...

“All the other opportunities I looked at were all start-ups. I’m interested in making an impact, in creating something. To me, t ...

666 CASE STUDY IV-8 Mary Morrison’s Ethical Issue (Revised) Mary Morrison, a second-semester sophomore business major at Big Sta ...

Everybody did it. Working extra hours at the bookstore would put pressure on both her studying and recreational time. Mary con ...

Glossary service provider. ASP aggregators host multiple applications with a common interface. Also called Software as a Service ...

NSFNET served as the backbone for the Internet until 1995 by providing the underlying high-volume links of the Internet to which ...

Business continuity planning Contingency planning by an organization in the event of a natural or man-made disaster to ensure th ...

Cloud computing This phrase means obtaining IT capabili- ties (i.e., hardware, software, or services) from an outside ven- dor o ...

instructions (operations to be performed) from memory one at a time, interprets each instruction, and carries it out—all at elec ...

Data governance An organizational process for establishing strategy, objectives, and policies for organizational data. Data inde ...

DSL service, which is available from telephone companies in many parts of the United States, uses a sophisticated modulation sch ...

Enterprise modeling A top-down approach to detailing the data requirements of an organization. Enterprise modeling employs a hig ...

Fiber to the home A high-speed, or broadband, connection to the Internet using fiber-optic cabling all the way to the home; the ...

instructions or data via a keyboard or stylus; also called palmtop computer or personal digital assistant. Hardware The physical ...