BUS 237 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Computer Hardware, Information System

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 237
• Professor: Zorana Svedic

Document Summary

A group of components that interact to produce information. The five fundamental components of an information system computer hardware, software, data, procedures, and people that are present in every information system, from the simplest to the most complex. One of the five fundamental components of an information system. Information systems that help businesses achieve their goals and objectives. The products, methods, inventions and standards that are used for the purpose of producing information. Provides products and services that other industries rely on to get their work done. A law, created by gordon moore, stating that the number of transistors per square inch on an integrated chip doubles every 18 months. Moore"s prediction has proved generally accurate in the 40 years since it was made. Sometimes, this is stated that the speed of a computer chip doubles every.