[ITM 102] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (56 pages long!)

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A system is a set of inter-related, inter-connected components that work together to produce an outcome. Reducing and managing your cost as much as you can. Make sure you keep running your business the way that you like. Students, who understand information systems, have an advantage in business. Computer-based tools that people use to work with information and that support the information and information-processing needs of an organization. Information systems in and of themselves are not useful unless the right people know how to use and manage them effectively. Is the acquisition (achievement), processing, storage and distribution of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information. The function that plans for, develops, implements, and maintains it hardware, software and applications that people use to support the goals of an organization. Data: are raw facts that describe the characteristics of an object or event (characteristics for sales event could include the date, item number, item description, quantity order, customer name and shipping details)