Chapter B Flash Cards

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Title: Chapter B
Description: Exam
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Author: tylergurney7
Created: 2009-12-09
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    • Side 3
    • data processing (DP)
    • name for business technology in the 1970's included technology that supported an exisiting business and was primarily used to improve the flow of financial info
    • Information Systems (IS)
    • technology that helps companies do business;includes such tools as automated teller Machines
    • Information Technology (IT)
    • technology that helps companies change business by allowing them to use new methodds
    • virtualization
    • accessibility through technology that allows business to be conducted independent of location
    • business intelligence (BI)
    • any of a variety of software applications that analyze an organization's raw date and take out useful insights from it
    • intanet
    • a companywide network, closed to public access, that uses internet-type technology
    • extranet
    • a semiprivate network that uses internet technology and allws more than one company to access the same information or allows people on different serves to collaborate
    • virtual private network (VPN)
    • a private date network that creates secure connections, or "tunnels" over regular internet lines
    • broadband technology
    • technology that offers users a continuous connection to the internet and allows them to send and receive mammoth files that include voice, video, and data much faster than ever before
    • network computing system
    • computer systems that allow persoanl computers to obtain needed info from huge databases in a central computer (the server)
    • internet2
    • the private internet system that links government supercomputer centers and a slect group of universities; it bruns more than 22,000 times faster than todays public infrastructure and supports heavy-duty applications
    • shareware
    • software that is copyrighted but distributed to potential customers for free
    • public domain software
    • software that is free for the taking
    • cookies
    • pieces of info such as registration data or user preferences, sent by a web site over the internet to a web browser that the browser software is expected to save send back to the server whenver the user returns to that website