Info380
Vocabulary
generic terms
- IS
- Information System. The subject of this class and most other things in the Informatics program.
types of information systems
- Transaction Processing Systems (TPS)
- These process business transactions sich as orders, time cards, payments, and reservations.
- Management Information Systems (MIS)
- Uses transaction data to produce reports to management with the data necesssary to run the business.
- Decision Support Systems (DSS)
- Help various decision makers identify all options and to help choose between them, given the input.
- Executive Information systmes (EIS)
- Expert Systems
- capture and reproduce the knowledge of an expert problem solver and attempt to approximate their decsison-making process
- Office Automation systems