SMG IS 223 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Retail, Radio Wave, Mass Customization

• School: Boston University
• Department: Information Systems
• Course: SMG IS 223
• Professor: Jeff Allen

Document Summary

Supports organizational and value-creation processes, avoid interuption, delay and failure. For processing transactions or data analysis: backup. Backup data are frequently overwritten with newer backups: archival. Doesn"t need to be readily accessible by computer systems: networking, message has to be formulated, encoded, transmitted, received, decoded, and understood, requires. Involves senders, a message, and receivers: sender and receiver, transmission pathway, rules/protocols for communication. Steps: coding message, sending message, receiving and decoding message. Servers, clients and peers: servers, host (serve up) data, databases, files, apps, websites, video, for access over network, clients, consume hosted resources, peers (p2p) Sharing of data, software applications, and other resources between several users. Increasingly, lans are becoming wireless (wlans) using high-frequency radio wave technology or wi-fi networks (wireless fidelity). Easier to install, no need for cabling: the internet and www, www translates domain names to ip addresses and travel from computer to network through broadband connection, url: identity, locate webpage, domain name: help recognize company, prefix: google.