1. David Wilson
Angela Devenney
Brittany Matheny
Brien Mccoy

2.  IT is used as communication tool to:
 Share information between staff, suppliers, and
consumers.
 1970’s Information Technology was know as DP.
 Data VS. Information.
 1980’s Business Tech (BT) introduced tools like atm’s
and voicemail
 Then after the 1980’s (BT) was know as (IT) information
tech.
 CIO helps businesses use tech for communication

3.  Allows for online paying and ordering
 How it changed the entertainment
industry:
 40 year ago you had to go to a movie
theater
 Allows for video ordering
 Allows for downloading on computer, iPod,
or cell phone
 Broke time and location barrier
 NASDAQ

4.  Knowledge makes info useful
 Business Intelligence – software
applications that analyze an organization’s
raw data
 BI changes traditional flow of info:
 Used to train workers
 Provides insights

5.  Business process information
 Physical world Observation
 Biological data
 Public data
 Data that indicates personal references or
intention

7.  Tips for organizing E-mail and electron
files
 Use your e-mail program’s organizing
tools
 Use consistent file names
 Use online backup services
 Use desktop search software

8.  Data Warehouse:
 Stores data on a single subject over time
 Purpose is to get data out
 Data Mining:
 Looking for hidden patterns and
relationships among data

9.  The road to knowledge
 Network of computer networks
 Was a one to one communication tool
 Now it is a one to many broadcast tool

10.  Companywide network, closed to public
access
 Keeps unwanted sources out
 Uses firewalls
 Allows for interactive apps

11.  Broader version of an Intranet
 Allows for data sharing which encourages
collaboration between companies
 Good for:
 Same information access
 Processing orders
 Invoices
 payments

12.  Secure system used with extranets
 Reserved solely for the network
 Issues with Dedicated lines:
 Expensive
 limit extranet use
 Often too time consuming

13.  Private data network
 Creates secure connections or tunnels
 Advantages of (VPNs):
 Same capabilities as extranets
 Cheaper than extranets
 Allows for on-demand networking
 Keeps corporate networks secure

14.  Make information available in one place
 Gives users access to their area of the
intranet
 Advantages:
 Centralizes information
 Serves as entry point
 Allows access according to one’s role

15.  Allows a continuous connect to the internet
 Sends and receives:
 Video
 Voice
 Data files

16.  Runs 22000 times faster than today’s
internet
 Supports heavy duty apps
 Key element
 very-high-speed backbone network
service vBNS
 Helps remote medical specialists
 Over 325 member universities

17.  Social Networking
 Inexpensive way to get exposure
 Tools for collaboration between businesses and
consumers
 Web 2.0
 Tools used to build social and business connection
 Share information & collaborate on projects online
 Examples
 YouTube, Twitter, My space, facebook

18.  Hardware includes:
 computers
 mobile phones
 Printer
 Scanners
 fax’s
 PDA’s
 CUTTING THE CORD
 Today most experts would agree that people are
moving away from just using their PC’s to
connect. Nowadays people are also using Iphones,
netbooks, blackberry’s, etc.

19.  Computer Networks:
 Connect people to people and people to data
 Allow companies & people to save time & money
 Have drawbacks, maintaining a fleet of PC’s is
expensive, also you lose productivity every time you
update, troubleshoot, or train a new employee how to
use it
 Some companies are now looking for other options
 One option is hybrid of mainframe & network
computing

20.  Thin client networks
 Software changes & upgrades need to be made only on the
server, so cost can be reduced by 20%
 Rent software & hardware access
 Virtualization & Cloud Computing
 Process that allows networked computer to run
multiple operating systems & programs through one
central computer at the same time
 Allows for virtualization but helps with limiting amount
of data share
 Often sold for a monthly fee

21.  Turn Technology off when not in use
 Buy programs like surveyor, which shut down
computers in a office at the push of a button

22.  Computer software tells the computer what to do
 Shareware
 Copyrighted
 Distributed free of charge but user usually sends a fee to he
developer if the program meets their needs
 Public Domain Software
 Free for the taking without any fees
 Business people use software for writing
 Word processors
 Spread sheets
 Filing and retrieving data
 graphics

23.  Human Resource Issues
 Telecommuting has many different advantages:
 The company can save resources
 Easy of use for the employee
 Often increases productivity
 Great for parents that have children or people with
disabilities
 Disadvantages:
 Less personal contact and confrontation
 Don’t know when to turn off work
 Sometimes part time alternative

24.  Nanobots
 People who are given the freedom to meet
the organization’s goals on their own time
and schedule
 Often given a project with a certain budget
and time deadline, and are left alone to take
the task on
 Biggest difficulty is finding the right person
for the job

25.  Security Issues
 Viruses
 Pieces of programming code inserted into other programming
that usually lies dormant until triggered to cause some
unexpected event
 Antivirus protection is essential
 Phishing
 Scammers often embellish an e-mail message with a stolen logo
for a well-recognized brand such as eBay, PayPal, or Citibank
 Scammers use phrases such as “Account Activation
Required”, or “Your account will be cancelled if you do not
verify”
 When the user clicks on it, the scammer can steal personal and
private information

26.  Other threats include:
 Copyright laws being violated
 Sexual and racial harassment
 Cyber terrorism
 Terrorist hackers could shut down the entire
communications, money supply, electricity, and
transportation systems
 In 2002 there was a powerful electronic attack
that crippled 9 of the 13 computers that manage
internet traffic globally

27.  Privacy Issues
 Many company managers scan employee e-mail
regularly (it is legal)
 Hackers can trap and read your email
 Makes easier to do unnecessary snooping
 Cookies:
 Pieces of information that the browser sends back to the
server whenever you return to that web site
 Tracks your movement
 Spyware can be installed on your computer without your
knowledge

28.  Stability Issues
 Being error free
 Hershey company’s $115 million dollar new computer
system disrupted shipments one Halloween and caused a
12% deficit that quarter
 Combination of human error, computer error,
malfunctioning software, and an overly complex marriage of
software, hardware, and networking equipment
 Management must face all of these challenges
within the company in order to maintain a strong,
growing company