BADM 2301- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 20 pages long!)

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The it department makes the company more fluid and innovative by integrating systems and functional areas. Today software dominates hardware and hardware"s importance has reduced. The transactions recorded are sent to functional areas. Challenges faced by tps are elimination of overlapping updates and inconsistencies when systems fail. The transactions need to be reversible and audit trail should be available. Batch processing- data is processed in groups at specific time instead of individual and immediate processing. Online transaction processing- immediate processing as transactions take place. Enterprise resource planning system-inter org systems that provide web- enabled links among company"s key business systems like inventory and production. It provides integration of internal facing application of crm and. The erp systems are designed to correct lack of information between. The benefit provided is through improving communication, flexibility and agility is created. Erps don"t replace fais and just process and store information coming from functional area systems.