SMG IS 223 Lecture 14: Notes - Infrastructure

• School: Boston University
• Department: Information Systems
• Course: SMG IS 223
• Professor: Stephanie Watts

Document Summary

Businesses depend on their information systems infrastructure to support their organizational and value-creation processes. Without a solid is infrastructure, many businesses are left with unreliable support, and business processes will be subject to interruption, delay, and failure. Used for: hardware, system software, storage, networking, data centers. Application software: software tools used to complete the work required to operate and manage an organization. Software tools: process automation, decision support, financial monument, other business and user needs. Databases: collections of data that applications often reference. **the ability to use applications to manipulate data is essential for executing business processes automatically and gaining business intelligence to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. **applications also allow organizations to streamline their business processes, resulting in lower operating costs and increased revenue and profit. Storage: operational: processing transactions or data analysis, storage computers access while performing normal processing operations, backup: short-term copies of organizational data.