Index 709Pine e-mail system, 209
Pirate Bay, The, 588
Pitney Bowes, 233
plain old telephone service (POTS) networks, 62
plan function, 106
planning information systems. Seeinformation
systems (IS) planning.
Platform as a Service (PaaS), 91
Plaxo, 82
point-of-dispensing (POD), 225
point-of-sale (POS)
data, 234
terminals, 20, 95
policies.
acceptable use, 570
access control, 570
“boilerplate” information security, 570
external access, 570
Facebook’s privacy policy, 580
password management, 570
user and physical, 570
political feasibility, 364
Polycom, Inc., 207–8
PVX software, 208
POP. Seepost office protocol (POP)
POP-mail, 209
POP-servers, 209
portals, 213–15
Porter, Michael E., 4, 258
portfolio management, of applications,
410–12, 548
portlet, 214
post-installation controls, 355
post office protocol (POP), 209
POP-mail, 209
POP-servers, 209
power distance, 555
Power Systems (formerly RS/6000), 32
pre-installation controls, 355
Premier Pages, 266
presentation graphics, 39
presentation layer, of OSI reference model, 87
Priceline.com, 268–9
PricewaterhouseCoopers, 109, 383
Princeton University, 264
privacy, 579–83. See alsoinformation security
defined, 579
e-commerce privacy concerns, 580–1
ethics of invasion of privacy, 582
laws on privacy, 582–3
Privacy Act, 582
privacy policy, 257–8
privacy problems, 579–80
workplace privacy, 581–2parallel conversion strategy, 367
password management policies, 570
password sniffers, 564
patent protection, 586–7
PATRIOT Act, 568, 569, 583
payment (or default) analysis, 227
PayPal, 269. See alsodot-com companies, eBay
pay-per-click ads, 271. See alsoe-business systems
payroll system, 196
PC.Seemicrocomputers
PC Magazine, 40
PC Worldmagazine, 27
PC-DOS operating system, 29
PCI-DSS, 563
Peachtree, 37–8
“Business Status Center,” 37
Premium Accounting 2010, 38
Pearce, Terry, 6
Peers, Martin, 269
peer-to-peer (P2P) network, 588
Pegasus e-mail system, 209
PeopleSoft, 198, 407See alsoOracle.
CRM, 205
Pep Boys, 195
perceptive systems, 241
Perdue Farms, 218, 219
performance management (PM) software, 235–7
performance orientation, 555
performancevs.goals, assessment of, 523–4
Perot Systems, 55, 266
personal applications, 384
personal computers (PCs). Seemicrocomputers
personal digital assistants (PDAs), 31, 544. See also
mobile computing
personal productivity software, 38–41
PERT charts, 420
Petro-Canada, 237
phased conversion strategy, 368
Phillips Petroleum, 236
phishing, 584
photodiode, 70
physical data, 102
physical layer, of OSI reference model, 87–8
physical systems, 335–6
defined, 335–6
example, 342
Physical To-Be model, 341, 342, 348–51
check register report, layout with sample data, 350
entity-relationship diagram, for accounts payable, 348
system requirements, 348
PictureTel Corporation, 207
piloting phase. Seeprototyping process
pilot conversion strategy, 367–8. See alsoinformation
systems (IS) processes and techniques