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82 Cards in this Set
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Faulty Soviet System
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Glitches in system from sun rays made it seem US launched 5 missles at Russia, near cause of WWIII
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McDonald's Innovate
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$1 Billion Dollar IT project to allow executives to have bird's eye view at any location at any time. Failed, and McDonalds Stock Plummeted.
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Protocol and Packets
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Protocols use Packets to exchange data.
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Backbone
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collection of high speed telecommunications lines that are connected to high speed computers.
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Bandwith
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Speed data is transferred on a telecommunications line. Measured in Bits
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digital switch
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switches that are computers dedicated to moving traffic (information) and pass it along to the next backbone line.
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routers
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decide what direction to pass traffic
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Internet Service Provider Point of Presence
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ISP POP is point of access to the netowrk and consists of a switch (computer) that knows how to route trafic to the end of users connected directly to it
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Local Area Connection
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Gateway, means large enterprises connect to the internet. Someitmes protected behind a FIREWALL
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Fixed line/Wire Line Internet
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physical wired connection to the internet
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Hypertext
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Way internet is presented
Links Photos Text |
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Content
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Pages of a website on the internet
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ARPAnet
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first connection of computers from UCLA to Stanford, soon other universities gained access
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File Transfer Protocol
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Sending or receiving files from a remote host.
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telnet
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remote login capability
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HTML
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Hypertext Markup Language, allowed graphics to connect users to different locations
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Internet value network
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all components that create value for the end users
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E-commerce companies
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"electric," real products for real money online.
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M-commerce
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"mobile," sells products over wireless network.
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Backbone service providers
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Maintain their own backbone lines
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Internet service providers
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serves internet to small time organizations and consumers
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Online Service Providers
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Provide internet along with content to subscribers.
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Last Mile providers
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develop, maintain, and provide physical connection. (Time Warner)
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Application Service Provider
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Provides certain software over a network to serve a business's needs. Provided to THIN CLIENT because the application can be taken away at any time.
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mediating technology
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technology that inter connects parties that are interdependent or want to be.
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Universality of the Internet
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Internet's ability to both enlarge and shrink the world
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network externalities
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add on's that make a product more valuable for its users to take advantage of.
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Metcalfe's law
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the value of a network increases as the square of the number of people in the network
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distribution channel
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internet is a distribution channel, distributes information in bits
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replacement effect
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new customers are after the same product old customers are using
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extension effect
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gives users advantage than previous customers
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information asymmetry
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one party to a transaction has information that another party does not
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infinite virtual capacity
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unlimited space
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transactions costs
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the costs of searching for sellers and buyers
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5 C's
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Coordination
Commerce Community Content Communication |
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coordination
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ensuring each subtask is performed
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B2B hubs
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place for buyer and seller to go to and meet for transactions.
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Vertical Hubs
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show the value of the company to the industry and industry's content
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B2C
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Business to consumer, commerce, businesses sell to customers.
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Internet2
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Faster network allowing new huge capabilities, tele-vator
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model
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simplified representation or abstraction of reality
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Online transaction processing
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the capturing of transaction and event information using technology to process the information
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transaction processing system
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basic business system that serves the operational level in an organization
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Online analytical processing
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the manipulation of information to create the business intelligence in support of strategic decision making
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decision support system
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models information to support managers and business professionals during the decision
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executive information system
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specialized DSS that supports senior level executives within the organization
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Digital Dashboards
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integrate information from multiple components and present them in an individual's preferences
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Intelligent Systems
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various commercial applications of artificial intelligence
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Artificial Intelligence
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simulates human intelligence such as the ability to reason and learn.
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Expert systems
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computerized advisory programs that imitate the reasoning processes of experts in solving difficult problems.
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neural network
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attempts to emulate the way the human brain works.
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fuzzy logic
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mathematical method of handling imprecise or subjective information.
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genetic algorithm
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mimics evolutionary, survival of the fittest process to generate increasingly better solutions to a problem.
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intelligent agent
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special purpose knowledge based information system that accomplishes specific tasks on behalf of its users.
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shopping bot
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software that will search several retailer Web sites and provide a comparison of each retailer's offerings including price availability
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cluster analysis
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divide information into mutually exclusive groups such that the members of each group are as close together as possible to one another and the different groups are as far apart as possible.
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Association detection
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reveals the degree to which variables are related and the nature and frequency of these relationships in information.
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Market Basket analysis
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analyzes such items as Web sites and checkout scanner information to detect customers' buying behavior and predict future behavior.
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forecasts
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predictions based on the information in a time-series.
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Time-series information
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time-stamped information collected at a particular frequency.
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supply chain
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all parties involved directly or indirectly in the procurement of a product of raw material.
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Supply chain management
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involves the management of information flows between and among stages in a supply chain to maximize total supply chain effectiveness and profitability.
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supply chain visibility
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the ability to view all areas up and down the supply chain
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bullwhip effect
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occurs when distorted product demand information passes from one entity to the next throughout the supply chain.
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Demand planning software
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generates demand forecasts using statistical tools and forecasting techniques.
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Supply chain planning software
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uses advanced mathematical algorithms to improve the flow and efficiency of the supply chain while reducing inventory.
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Supply chain execution software
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automates the different steps and stages of the supply chain.
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Operational CRM
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supports traditional transactional processing for day to day front office operations or systems that deal directly with the customers.
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Analytical CRM
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supports back-office operations and strategic analysis and includes all systems that do not deal directly with the customers.
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Personalization
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occurs when a web site can know enough about a person's likes and dislikes that it can fashion offers that are more likely to appeal to that person.
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middleware
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several software applications that sit in the middle of and provide connectivity between two software applications
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Enterprise application integration middleware
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packages together commonly used functionality
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Business Process Management (BPM)
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integrates all of an organization’s business process to make individual processes more efficient
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digital darwinism
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implies that organizations that cannot adapt to the new demands placed on them for surviving in the information age are doomed to extinction
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disruptive technology
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new way of doing things that initially does not meet the needs of existing customers
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sustaining technology
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produces an improved product customers are eager to buy
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digital divide
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is when those with access to technology have great advantages over those without access to technology.
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Web 2.0
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set of economic, social, and technology trends that collectively form the basis for the next generation of the internet
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semantic Web
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evolving extension of the WWW in which Web content can be expressed not only in natural language, but also in a format that can be read and used by software agents.
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service-oriented architecture
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collection of services that communicate with each other, for example, passing data from one service to another
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Web mashup
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Web application that uses content from more than one source to create a completely new service.
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application programming interface
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set of routines, protocols, and tolls for building software applications
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