MIS 204 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Expert System, Data Warehouse, Social Capital

• School: PSU
• Department: Management Information Systems
• Course: MIS 204
• Professor: Arthur Jones

Document Summary

Example: contact manager in i-phone or e- mail account procedures are simply and probably not documented. Info system shared by a group with a particular purpose, contains departmental and functional info systems. Span an organization and support activities in multiple departments. Data duplication is eliminated or changed to maintain consistency. Example: charging of membership fees: the information system that a. Interenterprise restaurant uses to order supplies and ingredients from its suppliers is an example of a(n) ________. Shared by two or more independent organizations. Solutions required cooperation among different independent organizations. Example: ordering of restaurant supplies from suppliers. Cooperation is required and resolve through meetings, contracts, and sometimes litigation. Begin to share data about the same entities/duplicate data. Suite of software applications that integrates existing systems by providing layers of software that connect applications together. Connects system islands via a new layer of software/system. Enables existing applications to communicate and share data.