BMGT 301 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Graphical User Interface, Enterprise Resource Planning, Enterprise Software

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Business and Management
• Course: BMGT 301
• Professor: Wei Chen

Document Summary

Chapter 11: understanding software: a primer for managers. 11. 1 software is important: software- a computer program or collection of programs that tell hardware what to do. Computer hardware --- operating system --- applications -- users. 11. 3 application software: application software (aka software applications, applications, or just apps)- perform the work that users and firms are directly interested in accomplishing. Sales, inventory, manufacturing, hr, purchasing, order tracking, decision support. Crm systems, scm systems, business intelligence systems: dbms (database management system)- stores and retriees data that an app creates and uses. Often used as way to send structured documents electronically between organizations: xml (extensible markup language)- tagging language that can be used to identify data fields. There are many programming languages, such as java, c++, python, etc. Ide (integrated development environment)- an app that includes an editor, debugger, compiler, and other useful programming tools: scripting languages- interpreted within apps, not compiled to run directly by a microprocessor.