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• Acquiring Information Systems and Services

  Information systems are a major corporate asset, with respect both to the benefits they provide and to their high costs. Therefore, organizations have to plan for the long term when acquiring information systems and services that will support business initiatives.
• Cloud Computing

  Cloud computing is the method of running application software and storing related data in central computer systems and providing customers or other users access to them through the internet.
• Computer Aided Engineering (CAE)

  CAE is the integration of design and manufacturing into a system under the direct control of digital computers. It combines the use of computers in industrial design work, computer aided design, with their use in manufacturing operations, computer aided manufacturing,
• Electronic Commerce (e-commerce)

  E-commerce is maintaining relationships and conducting business transactions that including selling information, services, and goods by means for computer telecommunications networks.
• Information System

  An information system is an integrated set of components for collecting, storing, and processing data and for providing information, knowledge, and digital products. Business firms and other organizations rely on information systems to carry out and manage their operations, interact with their customers and suppliers, and compete in the market place. They are used to run inter-organizational supply chains and electronic markets.
• Information Systems Security and Control

  With the opening of information systems to the global internet and with their thorough infusion into the operation and management of business and government organizations and into the infrastructure of daily life across, information security issues have moved to the forefront of concerns about global well-being.
• Local Area Network (LAN)

  LAN is an communication network for connection computers within a building or small group of buildings. A LAN may be configured as a bus, a ring, or a star.
• Managing Information Systems

  For an organization to use its information services to support its operations or to innovate by launching a new initiative, those services have to be part of a well-planned infrastructure of core resources. The specific systems ought to be configured into a coherent architecture to deliver the necessary information services.
• Operating System

  Operating system is a program that manages a computer’s resources, especially the allocation of those resources among other programs.
• Types of Information Systems

  The information-system categories described here may be implemented with a great variety of applications programs.
• Wide Area Network (WAN)

  A WAN is a computer communications network that spans cities, countries, and the globe, generally using telephone lines and satellite links. It’s a network of networks.