ADMS 2511 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Guide: Spamassassin, Machine Translation, Plasma Display

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It offers career opportunities: information systems eld includes the people in the organizations who designs and build information systems, the people who use those systems, and the people responsible for managing those systems. It manages information resources: managing information systems in modern organizations is a dif cult task. Several factors contribute to this complexity: (1) information systems have enormous strategic value to organizations, (2) very expensive to acquire, operate and maintain, (3) dif culty in managing information systems is the evaluation of the management. Information systems (mis) function within the organization: end user computing-computers are located in all departments, and almost all employees use computers in their work. 1. 2 overview of computer based information systems: information systems (is)-collects, processes, stores, analyzes, and disseminates information for a speci c purpose. Processor, monitor, keyboard and printer: (2) software-program or collection of progress that enable the hardware to process data, (3) database-collection of related. Hardware, software, networks and databases: information technology.