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| front-office information system |
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| an information system that supports business functions that extend out to the organizations customers. |
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| back-office information system |
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| an information system that supports internal business operations of an organization, as well as reaches out to suppliers. |
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| information systems architecture |
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| a unifying framework into which various stakeholders with different perspectives can organize and view the fundamental building blocks of information |
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| a representation of entities, attributes, relationships, and rules. |
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| a group of related processes that support the business. Functions can be decomposed into other sub functions and eventually into processes that do specific tasks |
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| cross-functional information system |
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| a system that supports relevant business processes from several business functions without regard to traditional organizational boundaries such as divisions, departments, centers, and offices. |
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| a user's expectation of the processing requirements for a business process and its information systems. |
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| a set of rules that govern a business process. |
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| step-by-step set of instructions and logic for accomplishing a business process. |
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| the flow of transactions through business processes to ensure appropriate checks and approvals are implemented. |
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| the technical design of business processes to be automated or supports by computer programs to be written by system builders |
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| a language based, machine readable representation of what a software process is supposed to do or how a software process is supposed to accomplish its task. |
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| a technique for quickly building a functioning but incomplete model of the information system using rapid application development tools. |
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| technical designs that document how system users are to interact with a system and how a system interacts with other systems. |
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| a specification of how the user moves from window to window or page to page, interacting with the application programs to perform useful work. |
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| utility software that allows application software and systems software that utilize differing technologies to interoperate. |
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