[ADMS 2511] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (168 pages long!)

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 2511
• Professor: John Kucharczuk

Document Summary

Deal with the planning for and the development, management, and use of information technology tools to help people perform all of the tasks related to information processing and management. Relates to any computer-based tool that people use to work with information and to support the information and information-processing needs of an organization. Without understanding properly you will not be able to be successful without implementation of the technology to do regular tasks. Both terms are used interchangeably throughout an organization (and throughout this book) Application portfolio: a prioritized list of existing and potential it systems, organized by application, applications that have to be added, or modified if they already exist. The it architecture outlines the way an organization"s information resources should be used to accomplish its mission: encompasses both the technical and managerial aspects of information resources. Technical: hardware and operating systems, networking, data management systems, and application software.