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Midterm Flashcards

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Knowledge management system

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Manages knowledge

Blends technology with business data gathered by a company

Ex. Microsoft share point, intranet

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Enterprise system

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Information system that is used to perform certain functions within an enterprise

Ex. Supply chain management

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Business intelligence system

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Used to analyze raw data, data mining, online analytical processes, querying, and reporting

Ex. Document management system

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Information systems triangle

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Top: people
Bottom right side: technology
Bottom left side: process

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User-center design

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Everything you design is centered around user

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System development lifecycle (SDLC)

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Analysis- figuring out what is going on in details 
 ⬇️
Requirements- what we want the system to achieve
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Design
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Development 
⬇️
Implementation
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Usability

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How user friendly and availability is applied

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Graphic design

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Visually pleasing

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Analytical design

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Provides statistical information

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System architecture

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Set of conversions, rules, and standards employed in a computer system’s technical framework, plus customer requirements and specifications, that the system’s manufacturer follows in designing the system’s various components (such as hardware, software, and networks)

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Information system types

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Purpose, design, and interface

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Business process

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Goal directed activity with a business objective (not all systems involve information technology)

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As-is

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Current state (analysis of sdlc)

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To-be

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Future state - once improved (requirements of sdlc)

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Incorporation into client meetings (why redesign a business process)

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It’s just not working, costly, new technology is available, unreliable, etc.

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Standardized process

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Predictable experience - standardize with all employees

Ex. Starbucks, McDonalds, etc.

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Principles of graphic design (crap)

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Contrast
Repetition
Alignment
Proximity

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Principle of graphic design:

Contrast

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Achieved using visual weight and type design (font, size, weight, color, bold, italic, etc.)

Avoid contrast that conflicts - fonts too similar to each other

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Principle of graphic design:

Repetition

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Unifies into a coherent whole

Achieved by color and grouping symbols and signs and eliminating ones that are unnecessary

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Principle of graphic design:

Alignment

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Strength and organization

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Principle of graphic design:

Proximity

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Creates a relationship (how close things are together) 
Groups common interface items together
Activity indicator (ie loading...)
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Serif

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Makes reading easier to human eye

Ex. Times new roman

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San serif

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Makes reading on a monitor easier

Ex. Font with clean lines

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System’s development lifecycle

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Describe a process for planning, creating, testing and deploying and information system

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As design principles

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Delivers message/information

Principles: picture, headline, text, and logo

Ad draws attention with crap, but inform with picture headline

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Target market

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Overall term for directing your marketing endeavors towards a group of people

Design with end users in mind
You can spend more dollars per capita with in a smaller target market

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Market segmentation

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The breaking down of the market into smaller groups with the intention of promoting your product or service differently to each of them

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Niche market

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The subset of the market in which a specific product is focused

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Market fallacy

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Strategic error which leads to the mistaken belief that the largest segment if a market is the most lucrative. In reality, however, it may be the least profitable one due to the intense rivalry among s large number of competitors

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Laws of branding

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Branding- unique; singularity - perception that there are no other products like yours. Unique names and colors.

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Law of the generic

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Singularity. Many of the laws of branding are built upon the concept of singularity.

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Law of color

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A brand should use a color that is the opposite if it’s major competitors

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Demographics

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Characteristics that define target market

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Uml - universal modeling language

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Series of symbols that imply what is happening

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Intranet

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Only used by a single organization

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Google analytics

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Tracks sales made by users, who visited website, repeat visitors, where the visitor goes after viewing your website, etc.

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Graphic design principles. Who?

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Robin Williams

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Usability. Who?

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Neilson

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Database integration

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Involves combining data residing in different sources and providing users with a unified view of the data

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