Exam 14: Management Support Systems: Emerging Trends and Impacts

The intention of ________ is to achieve a feeling of telepresence and participation from a distance.

________ content is a major characteristic of Web 2.0,as is the emergence of social networking.

RFID generates major data streams ready for analysis through BI technologies.Another massive data source is emerging,along with the data mining technologies to make sense of the data,which is referred to as ________.

RFID-enabled environmental ________ provide insight into the changing environmental conditions experienced by the product and provide the data necessary to determine to what extent those changes affect the quality or safety of the product.

MSS can have ________ implications.

A ________ is a social network organized around a common interest,idea,task,or goal; members interact across time,geographic location,and organizational boundaries to develop personal relationships.

Active RFID tags have their own power source and can initiate the data transmission process on their own,but need a reader to energize them.

Fundamentally,RFID is one example of automatic identification technologies,unlike scanner-based barcodes and magnetic strips.

Just as RFID generates major data streams for further analysis through BI technologies that can assist in decision making,another massive data source and technologies to make sense of the data are emerging.This type of data mining is called reality mining.

MySpace and Facebook,Wikipedia and YouTube are examples of ________.