COMM 103 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Server Farm, Petabyte, Vulcanization

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Commerce
• Course: COMM 103
• Professor: Gary Bissonnette

Document Summary

Information system (is) a group of components that interact to produce information. Comprise of a five-component framework of: computer hardware, software, data, procedures, and people. Management information systems (mis) comprise the development and use of information systems that help organizations achieve their goals and objectives: components of an is, achieving business goals & objectives, implementation of an is. Information technology (it) refers to methods, inventions, standards, and products. Refers to raw technology, such as the hardware, sotware and data compoents of an is. It will not help an organization reach its goals and objectives by itself, only when embedded into an is when combined when the people and procedure components. Business process a series of tasks or steps designed to produce a product or a service (also can be referred to as a business system) i. e. inventory management processes, manufacturing processes, sales processes, customer support processes.