Role of Technology in Business

IT 210 Glossary of Terms

 Business analytics and business intelligence solutions: A methodology and applications,

technologies, and processes used to analyze data to help make business decisions

 Cloud computing: The ability to remotely access a network of computers and the software on

those computers, and the ability to remotely share data and information without being in the

same physical location as the computers

 e-business and e-commerce: A business using the internet to deliver information, services, and

products

 Intelligent systems: Information systems that can make decisions by themselves

 Knowledge management system: The use of technologies to capture, store, organize, and

disseminate internal and external knowledge management

 Mobile computing and mobile commerce: The ability to transmit and access data from any

location, and the ability to conduct business in a wireless environment (respectively)

 Social computing: Using social media networks to conduct business