ITM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Radio-Frequency Identification, Enterprise Application Integration, Mobile Commerce

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 100
• Professor: Ron Babin

Document Summary

Electronic product stewardship canada (epsc): an industry association that educates and encourages e- waste control. Virtual workforce: working from home or anywhere via the internet. Mobile commerce: ability to purchase goods and services through a mobile device. Telematics: the blending of wired and wireless technologies for efficient electronic communication. Electronic tagging: the use of rfid (radio frequency identification) and the other systems to identify and tracking digital assets. Enterprise resource planning (erp): integrates all departments and functions throughout an organization into a single it system so that employees can make enterprise-wide decisions by viewing enterprise-wide information all business operations. Addresses the need for global information sharing. Avoids the expense of fixing legacy systems. Legacy systems: are old computer systems that are still in use. Functional systems: serve single business department or unit. (read flowcharts from slides) Core erp component: traditional components included in most erp systems and they primarily focus on internal operations.