HARDWARE & NETWORK

Starting Java

noreply@blogger.com (JHS) — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 05:48:00 +0000

To use own computer to complete the steps, you will need the following :

Software :- Java 2 SDK v 1.4.0; Internet Explorer 7 and Textpad.

Hardware :- A Pentium II-class processor,450 MHZ or higher,personal computer,and Windows 2000, or Windows XP.

Data Files :- you will be able to complete some of the projects using no special files. However, for many,you will want to use data files that you can obtain electronically from the course Technology web site.

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

noreply@blogger.com (JHS) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:21:00 +0000

EDI reffers to the transmission and receipt of such common-place trading documentation as involves, purchase orders and credit notes.

EDI benefits

A much faster trading cycle cutting out the postal services and ensuring a higher degree of accuracy and security.

EDI trading can enable a company to offer shorter delivery times.

An example is Philips, the Dutch electronics company.

The Technology and their Application

noreply@blogger.com (JHS) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:14:00 +0000

The general heading of IS can be broken down into six generic types-these are listed below;

Data- Data technology is based on the collection.

Text;

Image;

Voice;

Vision;

Communication.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

noreply@blogger.com (JHS) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:08:00 +0000

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a new type of application that includes powerful facilities to manage the enterprise as a whole.

ERP can also include models for the finance and human resources aspects of a business.

Excutive support systems (ESS)

noreply@blogger.com (JHS) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:04:00 +0000

Excutive support systems (ESS) are a relatively new category of systems that support decision making by senior management. They serve the stategic level of the organisation.

Important :- ESS are oriented toward external events, although they do take summarised information from MIS and DSS.

Decision Support Systems(DSS)

noreply@blogger.com (JHS) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:59:00 +0000

Decision Support Systems(DSS) are devoted to supporting management decision that are semi-sturctured.

These systems draw on internal information from TPS and MIS. and they often bring in information from external sources.

Important:- DSS tend to be interactive, providing users with easy access to data and analytical models through user friendly interface.

Management Information Systems(MIS)

noreply@blogger.com (JHS) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:57:00 +0000

At the management level, management infromation systems(MIS) provide managers with reports and online access to the organisations current performance and historical records.

Control Systems

noreply@blogger.com (JHS) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:52:00 +0000

The majority of the discussion so far has concentrated on systems that process information alone. It should not be forgotten that many organisations use computers-based systems to perfrom physical control function within business as well.

Office Automation Systems

noreply@blogger.com (JHS) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:48:00 +0000

Office Automation Systems can be defined as any application of IT that intends ti increase the productivity of office workers.

Transaction Processing systems (TPS)

noreply@blogger.com (JHS) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:42:00 +0000

A Transaction Processing systems (TPS) is a computarised systems that performs and records the daily routine trasaction necessary to the conduct of the business.

Examples include: sales order entry, hotel reservation systems.

Business Value Chain

noreply@blogger.com (JHS) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:33:00 +0000

Inbound logistics.

Operations.

Outbound logistics.

Marketing and sales.

Service.

We can expand the support activities as follows:

Procurement

Technological development.

Human resource management.

A companys infrastructure.

Within each category of primary and support activities, there are three activity types that play a different role in competitive advantage.

Direct.

Indirect.

Quality assuarance.

Formulating a business strategy

noreply@blogger.com (JHS) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:28:00 +0000

Market performance;

Business mission;

Operational needs;

Business environment;

Social and human environment;

Customers;

Suppliers.

Business Strategy

noreply@blogger.com (JHS) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:53:00 +0000

A business must first formulate a business strategy for itself. It will then expand this into a competitive strategy depending on what industry sector it is operating in.

Information Systems and Society

noreply@blogger.com (JHS) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:46:00 +0000

The developed nations of the world live in the information age. or as often referred to as the knowledge age. This high-tech world is populated by knowledge workers.

Computers are everywhere in the factory, in the shop, the office and the home. Developing countries are using the cheap technology to catapult themselves into the knowledge age and their knowledge workers can link over the electronic superhighways and provide service to any business in the world.

Importance of information systems

noreply@blogger.com (JHS) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:18:00 +0000

In the early of computing - during the 1950s and much of the 1960s managers generally did not need to know much about how information was processed in their organisations.

IS now play a strategic role in most business. They affect :

how managers decide;

how senior managers plan;

what produced and services are produced.

Computer Application- Some definition

noreply@blogger.com (JHS) — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:06:00 +0000

Systems :- a set of connected things that from a whole or work together.

A systems must have an object.

In order to meet its object a system will produce an output, as a result of carrying out some process on a set of inputs.

We may have many inputs and outputs.

Identifying the boundry of a system is difficult.

Computer:- An electronic device that processes data according to a set of stored instructions.

Information:- Derived from data, information is useful in solving problems.

Information Technology(IT) :- any technology connected with the capture,storage,transmittal of information.

Pressures of the Global Office

noreply@blogger.com (JHS) — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:10:00 +0000

The innovative quality of the advancing technology associated with telecommunication lies in the liberation of the individual from remaining in one physical location.

The global office has arrived for many workers and has bought with it whole different set of problems for users.

There is a real need to adjust managerial and workplace culture to take account of the individuals need for his or her privacy.

Ergonomics

noreply@blogger.com (JHS) — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:07:00 +0000

The study of the relationship between people and their working environment, including machinery, computer systems, etc.

Health & safety in the use of computer systems

noreply@blogger.com (JHS) — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:03:00 +0000

The health and safety factors with the use of computer systems and communication equipment seem to multiply day by day. According to one set of recent research the risk of developing a brain tumor through using mobile telephones can be reduced by using hands-free accessories.

Telecommunication Technology

noreply@blogger.com (JHS) — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:59:00 +0000

Organisation now have to make use of Telecommunications to survive. at one time only big corporations were multinational, but now companies can become great and global at the same time thanks to the new channels of communication and e-commerce.

Project Management Technology

noreply@blogger.com (JHS) — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:51:00 +0000

Multiple Projects are usually being planned or actually happening at the same time in any organisation. Project management software allows staff to track and to plan these numerous projects. it works by breaking down a complicated project into subtasks. each with its own completion date and the required resources.

Office Scheduling Technology

noreply@blogger.com (JHS) — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:26:00 +0000

Office Scheduling Technology is the collective term for software packages which co-ordinate individual and group activities and appointments: in effect these are electronic calenders and diaries.

Purchasing & stock control packages

noreply@blogger.com (JHS) — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:19:00 +0000

Stock control systems automatically adjust stock levels and take corrective action when the re-order level is reached.

Barcodes are used extensively in retail outlets at the point of sale and for a range of stock control applications.

where the ratailer is selling a service rather than goods, electronic booking and reservation systems work on a similar principle of instantly updating records thus ensuring availability is current and accurate.

Order Processing and Invoicing Packages

noreply@blogger.com (JHS) — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:14:00 +0000

When an order is received, the systems will check if the customers has an existing account. The stock file will be checked to see if the goods are in stock. if they are the invoice and despatch note are created and issued along with the goods.

Desktop Publishing (DTP)

noreply@blogger.com (JHS) — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:10:00 +0000

Desktop publishing packages are more sophisticated forms word processors. text, image, graphs, tables & charts can be imported from other software packages and the pages made up on screen into very professional reports, notices or publicity material of a quality similar to that found in books and magazines.