ISDS 1100 : ISDS FINAL STUDY GUIDE

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Information: accounting- records, measures, and reports monetary transactions. Finance- tracks strategic financial issues including money, banking, credit, investments, and assets. Sales- performs the function of selling goods or services. Operations management- manages the process of converting or transforming resources into goods or services. Marketing- supports sales by planning, pricing, and promoting goods or services. Human resources- maintains policies, plans, and procedures for the effective management of employees. Material items or products that customers will buy to satisfy a want or need. Tasks performed by people that customers will buy to satisfy a want or need. Waiting tables: input --------------- process -------------- output. Database- maintains information about various types of objects (inventory), events (transactions), people (employees), and places (warehouses) Attribute- the data elements associated with an entity. Relational database management system- allows users to create, read, update, and delete data in a relational database. Relational database model- stores information in the form of logically related two- dimensional tables.