Exam 15: Managing Information and Technology

Career Technology's _____ is a private network with Internet technologies that's available only to the company's employees.

A firm's _____ system consists of the combination of technologies, procedures, and people who collect and distribute the information needed to make decisions and coordinate and control companywide activities.

_____ managers need information for planning, setting objectives, and making major strategic decisions.

A _____ system not only determines the steps needed to produce components, but also instructs machines to do the necessary work.

Its nonvirtual business model allowed the CD Internet retailer Spun.com to avoid carrying $8 million in inventory that it would otherwise have needed to support its sales.

What are databases and how are they used

Data and information are the same thing.

So-called _____ systems are networks that include a number of client machines and a server.

Caesar's uses data mining to extract lots of useful information about its customers. Before it can do this it must first:

What's the difference between the World Wide Web and the Internet