BU415 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Direct-Sequence Spread Spectrum, Information System, Transaction Processing
Document Summary
Information systems pervade modern organization understanding how classified and organised prerequisite to being able to navigate infrastructure of modern firm: critical to optimally manage organizational change when it occurs. Tps: concerned with high-level, long-range decisions, focused on strategic decision making and interpreting how firm should react to trend in marketplace and competitive environment. Interplay of new technology, opportunities they afford, with redesign of business processes to take advantage of technologies, has potential to yield substantial performance improvements. Chapter 3: organizational information systems and their impact. Improve efficiency through reduction of indirect costs achieved by streamlining business processes and operations: responsiveness, with up-to-date information available in field. It is an essential enabler of all but the smallest. Investments made in knowledge creation and storage pay off. Dbmss, providing: simple and flexible schema structure to accommodate heterogeneous data, horizontal scalability adapted to distributed environments composed of commoditized serves, high availability, key value stores.
