ITM 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Database, Circular Reference, E-Commerce

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 102
• Professor: derbel

Document Summary

This chapter is examining general purpose software (spreadsheets and database management system) to help analyze and organize data: computers exist to manage and analyze data. Managing information: the term data to describe raw facts and information to mean data that has been organized to help solving the problem and answers. Information system can be generally defined as a software that helps us organize and analyze data. Data is simply used to manage relationships within that data to capture. These situations don"t necessarily require special organization or processing. What they do require, however, are flexible application software tools that allow the user to dictate and manage the organization of data, and that have basic processing capabilities to analyze the data in various ways. Electronic commerce operates in all four of the major market segments: business to business, business to consumer, consumer to consumer and consumer to business. Spreadsheet and data base management system are around since 1970s.