SMG IS 223 Midterm: IS223 Midterm study guide
10 Feb 2017
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It is an important enabler of business success and innovation. Consists of all the hardware and software that a firm needs to use in order to achieve its business objectives. It infrastructure set of physical devices and software required to operate enterprise: set of firm wide services including: The service platform perspective refers to analyzing actual services enabled by new technology tools. E. g. , a new pc might save an employee one hour per day in wait time for information, dramatically increasing his or her value to the firm: 7 main components, computer hardware platforms. Client machines (desktop pcs, mobile computing devices pdas, laptops: blade servers ultrathin computers stored in racks. Mainframes (ibm mainframe equivalent to thousands of blade servers) Servers: continue to be used to reliably and securely handle huge volumes of transactions, for analyzing very large quantities of data, and for handling large workloads in cloud computing centers. Top firms: ibm, hp, dell, sun microsystems: operating system platforms.
