MGCR 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Enterprise Software, Business Intelligence, Financial Accounting

• School: McGill University
• Department: Management Core
• Course: MGCR 331
• Professor: Richard Donovan

Document Summary

Is lecture 7- technical foundations hardware and software. Implement client/server with ood (object-oriented design) techniques (uses inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation) Personal digital assistant (pda)- a small and held device that combines computing, telephone/fax, internet and networking features. Notebook computer- a fully functional computer designed to be carried around and run on battery power. Mainframe computer-designed to meet the computing needs of hundreds of people in a large business environment. Supercomputers- the fastest, most powerful, and most expensive type of computer. From a hardware perspective, computers work with bits and bytes. Computers use electrical pulses to have two states: on and off. Binary digit (bit)-the smallest unit of information. Byte: 8 bits, combined to mean something. Kilobyte (1000 bytes: 2kb=a typewritten page. Megabyte (1000000 bytes: 1mb=a small novel, 5mb= 30 seconds of tv quality video. Gigabyte (1 000 000 000 bytes: 2gb= 20 meters of shelved books, 20gb= a good collection of beethoven"s work.