If I were to recommend some items of hardware or software to a small company to try and expand, I would tell them to use a hard drive, motherboard, processor, a version of Microsoft office, and some sort of Windows (i.e. Windows Vista). Having a good version of Windows can help in speed of searches, better wireless networks, and having a better desktop for your computer (1). Microsoft office can help in many ways. Typing word documents, making charts and spreadsheets, and making PowerPoint’s for presentations are all examples of how Microsoft office can help a smaller company expand. Presentations are a great way to show the benefits and success of a smaller company; showing the success is a great way to get the company’s name out there and help them expand. A healthy hard drive would be crucial for a company to expand because it is the main method of storage for a computer. As a company expands, it will need to save a large number of files, which makes the hard drive so important. The motherboard of the computer is another vital piece of hardware that would be necessary for the company to expand. The motherboard is the “backbone” of the system that determines the type of components that can be used with the system and the number of internal peripherals the system can support. Finally, the processor is considered the brain of the computer system. The processor is important for how quickly the computer operates and is able to get jobs done (2). These items of hardware and software would be very important for a small company that is trying to expand and grow larger.
1. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/10-reasons-to-buy-Windows-7
2. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091208120447AAOubyT
Monday, July 18, 2011
Monitoring Social Networks
Social media monitoring can enhance my business greatly and in numerous ways. I envision social media monitoring as a means of advertising and reaching out to a large number of people for free. Facebook and Twitter could come into play as a huge help for my business and my number of customers could skyrocket. By using Facebook and Twitter to advertise, it could even help get customers who do not use the Internet because they could hear about it from friends and family who do use it. Overall, the services of social media monitoring could benefit my company tremendously.
I would use the services of social media monitoring by advertising my business on Facebook. This would benefit me because I am a friend of a lot of people from school on Facebook and everyone would hear of the business. Making a Facebook group or event is easy, free and can be sent to all of your friends. If a large amount of people see the group or event and like it, they will tell their friends and the number of customers may increase substantially.
Creating a twitter account is another way that the services of social media monitoring could benefit my company. Getting enough people to follow my company’s twitter will potentially increase my total customers. Another way that twitter could benefit my company would be if someone tweeted something positive about the company, it would encourage more people to come to me.
Social media monitoring, if used correctly, can benefit my company in so many ways. By using Facebook and Twitter to advertise, I will not lose any money because it is free. This also helps me reach out to a great deal of people very quickly. Advertising on Facebook and Twitter can be done in the matter of minutes and I can reach out to thousands of people at once. This also will help if people recommend my company through Facebook or Twitter because if I receive positive reviews, everyone will see it and hopefully use my business as well.
I would use the services of social media monitoring by advertising my business on Facebook. This would benefit me because I am a friend of a lot of people from school on Facebook and everyone would hear of the business. Making a Facebook group or event is easy, free and can be sent to all of your friends. If a large amount of people see the group or event and like it, they will tell their friends and the number of customers may increase substantially.
Creating a twitter account is another way that the services of social media monitoring could benefit my company. Getting enough people to follow my company’s twitter will potentially increase my total customers. Another way that twitter could benefit my company would be if someone tweeted something positive about the company, it would encourage more people to come to me.
Social media monitoring, if used correctly, can benefit my company in so many ways. By using Facebook and Twitter to advertise, I will not lose any money because it is free. This also helps me reach out to a great deal of people very quickly. Advertising on Facebook and Twitter can be done in the matter of minutes and I can reach out to thousands of people at once. This also will help if people recommend my company through Facebook or Twitter because if I receive positive reviews, everyone will see it and hopefully use my business as well.
General Systems Concepts
“An information system is a discipline bridging the business field and well-defined computer science field that are evolving toward a new scientific study (1).” These systems are a newer technology that is helping the business world drastically because everything is done quickly and more easily. Information systems are changing businesses all over the world by making tedious jobs more simple and capable of being done quicker. Information systems take information and use it to help the company achieve its goals.
Business information systems are a common type of information system. A business information system is used in a business organization that is designed for mobile commerce. Mobile commerce is a transaction that is conducted anywhere at any time. Business information systems sometimes process transactions, deliver information, and support decisions that the company makes. Business information systems have benefitted businesses is many ways. Allowing the companies to make transactions in places other than the office, having these transactions done quicker, and having more information handy at all times are three ways that this type of information system has greatly improved businesses.
Electronic and mobile commerce is a major part of the business information systems. “Electric commerce consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks (2).” Another form of commerce would be mobile commerce. This is “the ability to conduct commerce using a mobile device, such as a mobile phone, a Personal digital assistant PDA, a Smartphone, or other emerging mobile equipment such as dash top mobile devices (3).” “Mobile commerce was brought up in 1997. The first mobile phone banking service was launched in 1997 by Merita Bank of Finland, also using SMS (3).”
Enterprise systems (ES) are large-scale, integrated application-software packages that use the computational, data storage, and data transmission power of modern information technology to support business processes, information flows, reporting, and data analytics within and between complex organizations (4). These systems have transformed over the years but people and businesses still manage to use them everyday. Enterprise systems support a mass requirement rather than a single department or group in a business. An enterprise system will have a large impact on a business whether it works or not, regardless there will be a change. The impact is usually referred to in dollars whether it increases sales or decreases
1. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_systems
2. 2.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_commerce
3. 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_commerce
4. 4. http://www.kirit.com/Enterprise%20systems%20for%20geniuses/What%20is%20an%20Enterprise%20System%20anyway%3F
Business information systems are a common type of information system. A business information system is used in a business organization that is designed for mobile commerce. Mobile commerce is a transaction that is conducted anywhere at any time. Business information systems sometimes process transactions, deliver information, and support decisions that the company makes. Business information systems have benefitted businesses is many ways. Allowing the companies to make transactions in places other than the office, having these transactions done quicker, and having more information handy at all times are three ways that this type of information system has greatly improved businesses.
Electronic and mobile commerce is a major part of the business information systems. “Electric commerce consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks (2).” Another form of commerce would be mobile commerce. This is “the ability to conduct commerce using a mobile device, such as a mobile phone, a Personal digital assistant PDA, a Smartphone, or other emerging mobile equipment such as dash top mobile devices (3).” “Mobile commerce was brought up in 1997. The first mobile phone banking service was launched in 1997 by Merita Bank of Finland, also using SMS (3).”
Enterprise systems (ES) are large-scale, integrated application-software packages that use the computational, data storage, and data transmission power of modern information technology to support business processes, information flows, reporting, and data analytics within and between complex organizations (4). These systems have transformed over the years but people and businesses still manage to use them everyday. Enterprise systems support a mass requirement rather than a single department or group in a business. An enterprise system will have a large impact on a business whether it works or not, regardless there will be a change. The impact is usually referred to in dollars whether it increases sales or decreases
1. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_systems
2. 2.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_commerce
3. 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_commerce
4. 4. http://www.kirit.com/Enterprise%20systems%20for%20geniuses/What%20is%20an%20Enterprise%20System%20anyway%3F
Friday, July 15, 2011
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Week 1 task 3 Rob Ghiretti
Information systems are applied in organizations to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the company. There are many different types of information systems out there that companies are using to enhance their company. Some types of information systems would be Transaction Processing Systems, Decision Support Systems, Expert Systems, Management Information Systems, and Office Automation Systems. The system I will choose to discuss is the Expert System. An expert system is software that uses knowledge base that excels in the field of problem solving. This helps in situations where a number of experts would have to be consulted about an issue because the issue is solved quicker and easier by using an Expert System. Expert systems can usually be found in a particular problem domain. Some keys to creating a the Expert System would include getting the knowledge base, knowledge engineering (the process of gathering the knowledge), and placing the system in a problem solving situation as an aid to human workers. The value of expert systems to an organization is carrying intelligence and information and providing this information to other members of the organization. Expert Systems are most valuable to organizations that have a high-level of experience with information that is not easily transferred to other members of the organization. The user interface, the knowledge base, and the inference engine are all major components to the expert system. The user interface is the means of the community between a user and the expert systems problem-solving process. The knowledge base is what stores all of the facts and information used by the system in a problem domain. The inference engine is the program that figures out which knowledge is appropriate for the knowledge base. The inference engine gathers new knowledge by applying logical processing and problem solving strategies.
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