Managing Information Technology

38 Part I • Information Technology financial statements, and customize forms, reports, and screens. With the Comparative Budget ...

type; lets the user change fonts, margins, and columns eas- ily; rewrites sentences to make them grammatically correct with the ...

40 Part I • Information Technology operating system, has good individual products (although not always the best individual produ ...

Chapter 2 • Computer Systems 41 more depth in Chapter 14. ACT! by Sage (United Kingdom), GoldMine (from FrontRange Solutions), a ...

multitaskingis used to describe essentially the same func- tion as multiprogramming on larger machines. Multithreading(thread is ...

Chapter 2 • Computer Systems 43 move into the mainframe arena, where it is likely to coex- ist with vendor operating systems lik ...

44 Part I • Information Technology 100 machine language instructions per 4 GL instruction). Furthermore, although each type of c ...

of a large corporation. Each salesperson earns a 1 percent commission on the first $50,000 in sales during a month and a 2 perce ...

46 Part I • Information Technology OTHER PROCEDURAL LANGUAGES There are many procedural languages in addition to COBOL, but we w ...

Chapter 2 • Computer Systems 47 3 GL, the programmer must devise a step-by-step proce- dure to accomplish the desired result and ...

programs is of less concern. For these reasons as well as the increasing computer sophistication of managers, the use of 4 GLs ( ...

Chapter 2 • Computer Systems 49 date) provide specific details about the information that follows. The end of details about the ...

50 Part I • Information Technology comprehend at first, so let’s use an example that might be more familiar to you—the family do ...

Chapter 2 • Computer Systems 51 transactions, they all have the following things in common: 1.All Web applications are based on ...

52 Part I • Information Technology today, applications use AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) to create dynamic applications ...

Chapter 2 • Computer Systems 53 is a very complex and often costly software product, ranging in price from under $500 for a PC p ...

54 Part I • Information Technology storage format, integrity rules, security clearances, and physical location of data need to b ...

Chapter 2 • Computer Systems 55 The Changing Nature of Software In the process of investigating the various categories of comput ...

56 Part I • Information Technology software firms. Many of the smaller firms tend to rise and fall rapidly based on the success ...

Chapter 2 • Computer Systems 57 7.Briefly describe the four generations of computer program- ming languages, concentrating on th ...