Managing Information Technology

Information vision A written expression of the desired future for information use and management in an organization. Inheritance ...

IT platform The set of hardware, software, communications, and standards an organization uses to build and operate its infor- ma ...

Identifying information and the amount are recorded in magneti- zable ink at the bottom of the check; a computer input device ca ...

departmental computing, midsized business general processing, server in client/server applications, Web server, file server, loc ...

Object A person, place, or thing including data and methods, as used in physical To-Be modeling; a chunk of program code encompa ...

PC SeeMicrocomputer, Laptop computer, Notebook computer, Netbook. PDA SeePersonal digital assistant. Perceptive systems The bran ...

Proprietary systems Systems (usually referring to operating systems) that are the property of a particular software vendor and, ...

where the networks might use different protocols. The router forwards only those messages that need to be forwarded from one net ...

Social networking application An Internet application that permits users to post information about themselves and to view inform ...

Switched Ethernet A newer variant of Ethernet that provides better performance than shared Ethernet at a higher price. A switch ...

user interface is housed on the client, usually a PC (tier 1); the processing is performed on a midrange system operating as the ...

Value chain analysis A method developed by Michael E. Porter to identify possible strategic initiatives by examining the primary ...

Wide area network (WAN) A type of network over which both voice and data for a single organization are communicated among the mu ...

691 Alibaba, 260, 273 alpha site, 393 Alpha Software’s Alpha Five, 39 alpha vendors, 557 Amazon (www.amazon.com), 4, 91, 187, 25 ...

application service provider (ASP), 91, 390, 406–7, 557, 562 defined, 406 service level agreement, 407 applications software, 10 ...

Index 693 Burroughs, 33 bus topology, 70 business continuity planning (BCP), 561, 571, 572 business intelligence (BI), 47, 190, ...

Case Worker Advisor, 243–4 cash-on-delivery (COD) payments, 273 Cassandra errors, 383 catalog retailers, 265–6 CATS-1, 242 cente ...

Index 695 stored-program concept, 25–7 types of, 28–34 underlying structure of, 20 Compuware, 260 comScore, 262 Comshare Decisio ...

Cray Inc., 34 Cray XT5, 35 credit bureaus, 583 CrewSolver DSS, 225 critical path method (CPM), 420 charts, 420 critical success ...

Index 697 digital entertainment piracy, 587 Digital Equipment Corporation, 73 ALL-IN-ONE, 209 digital liability management, 572 ...