RMG 300 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Granularity, Teijin, Online Transaction Processing

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Retail Management
• Course: RMG 300
• Professor: Norman Shaw

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Give examples: granularity of data, transactions, collections of very detailed (fine) data, cannot see the big picture. Information: transactions are put together to make sense, coase data made up of transactions which are collections of fine data, examples of fine data, sales transactions, payments, transaction = fine data, types of granularity, batch processing, oltp. Sephora has implemented ipads for its sales assistants. Security breaches can be caused by clever social engineering. Organizations have business continuity plans in case something happens to their computer facilities. They could use a hot site or a cold site. Why would you select one versus the other: oss available source code at no cost to developers/users, license terms ensure source code is always available. It is low cost, flexible software and reliable software: proprietary software purchased software that has restrictions to its use, copying and modifications, developer keeps source code private. Justify if you think this is ethical or unethical.