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| Catch up, learn 2 terms a day !
Past..... ERP, ASP, EDI, B2B, Portal,
eCommerce, Supply Chain, B2C, ZROOM, CRM, Data Mining, Data
Warehousing,confuware, OLAP, ETL, CIM, MES, OLTP, DSS, EIS, DNS, DSN, 30 March 01 |
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The Domain Name System, or DNS, is the database which computers on the Internet use to look up each other's addresses. The DNS is a distributed database, which is much better than a static text-file listing everyone on the Internet. A static file would not only be absolutely gigantic, but would also be constantly out of date, the way paper phonebooks always are. With DNS, when any site needs to add or remove computers, they simply update their portion of the database and, after a short period, everyone on the net can see the change! When you refer to a computer by its fully qualified domain name such as pine.cse.nau.edu your computer system says, "what the heck is that? I need a numeric address to talk to that computer." It then performs an Address record DNS query. Your nearest domain nameserver checks its memory cache, and if it finds the answer there it returns it. Otherwise it figures out which nameservers on the Internet would know, and asks them. All this is going on behind the scenes so that you can use nice friendly names like pine.cse.nau.edu instead of the impossible-to-remember numeric version 134.114.64.90. |
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The Domain Name System, or DNS, is the database which computers on the Internet use to look up each other's addresses. The DNS is a distributed database, which is much better than a static text-file listing everyone on the Internet. A static file would not only be absolutely gigantic, but would also be constantly out of date, the way paper phonebooks always are. With DNS, when any site needs to add or remove computers, they simply update their portion of the database and, after a short period, everyone on the net can see the change! When you refer to a computer by its fully qualified domain name such as pine.cse.nau.edu your computer system says, "what the heck is that? I need a numeric address to talk to that computer." It then performs an Address record DNS query. Your nearest domain nameserver checks its memory cache, and if it finds the answer there it returns it. Otherwise it figures out which nameservers on the Internet would know, and asks them. All this is going on behind the scenes so that you can use nice friendly names like pine.cse.nau.edu instead of the impossible-to-remember numeric version 134.114.64.90. |
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| Executive Information System is a computer based system that serves the information needs of top executives. It provides rapid access to management report. It is user friendly, supported by graphics, and provides exception reports and drill down capabilities. |
| 21 March 01 |
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| Manufacturing Execution
System. An MES constitutes the link between a company's corporate planning
system and its control systems. The planning level includes functions such
as forecasting, budgeting, logistics, order management and MRP. The
control level includes functions such as process and machine control,
which are usually performed by PLCs, DCS or process computers.
In the past this planning and control level have been through a number of isolated automation stages. This accounts for the historical communication gap between these two levels of business operation. Yet, in a world where quickly responding to changing customer requirements and delivering the right products on time and for the right price are Critical Success Factors, precise communication between the planning and control level is vital. |
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| Simply put, OLTP is merely the automation of high-volume, repetitive business processes. The types of transactions include short records of a few fields; the data is relatively simple codes, short descriptions, numbers, and dates. The classic examples are airline seat bookings, credit-card authorizations, and ATM withdrawals, but in fact OLTP systems are used in most businesses. Irrespective of how the actual systems are implemented, they must possess the following attributes, which a traditional centralized host and a private network can provide:continuous availability: round-the-clock access with very little downtime predictability: major transaction response times do not vary significantly with time of day, with season of the year, or during any heavy, peak processing period transaction integrity: the transaction processed by the system is immediately reflected in reality; when you make airline reservations and request a certain seat, you will get that seat transaction security: the whole system is secure from unauthorized entry |
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| Extraction, Transformation and Loading of data. This is a pre-requisite for data-warehousing. Related topics #Data Warehousing #OLAP |
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| Computer Integrated Manufacturing can generically be described as the integration of all industrial functions within an enterprise |
| 19 March 01 |
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| Coined by Daniel, it's a software to confuse users so that they will have to keep coming back for support...indebted for life ! |
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On Line Analytical Processing. OLAP enables a user to easily and selectively extract and view data from different points-of-view (dimensions) . For example, a user "pulls" data into an Excel or Lotus spreadsheet showing all of a company's beach ball products sold in Florida in the month of July, compare revenue figures with those for the same products in September, and then see a comparison of other product sales in Florida in the same time period! |
| 16 March 01 |
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| Generally, data mining
(sometimes called data or knowledge discovery) is the process of analyzing
data from different perspectives and summarizing it into useful
information - information that can be used to increase revenue, cuts
costs, or both. Data mining software is one of a number of analytical
tools for analyzing data. It allows users to analyze data from many
different dimensions or angles, categorize it, and summarize the
relationships identified. Technically, data mining is the process of
finding correlations or patterns among dozens of fields in large
relational databases.
Although data mining is a relatively new term, the technology is not. Companies have used powerful computers to sift through volumes of supermarket scanner data and analyze market research reports for years. However, continuous innovations in computer processing power, disk storage, and statistical software are dramatically increasing the accuracy of analysis while driving down the cost. http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/jason.frand/teacher/technologies/palace/datamining.htm |
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| A Data Warehouse is a repository of integrated information, available for queries and analysis. Data and information are extracted from heterogeneous sources as they are generated....This makes it much easier and more efficient to run queries over data that originally came from different sources. |
| 15 March 01 |
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| A special broom!...just joking |
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The definition of CRM will
evolve and change over time. However, ISM believes that CRM will consist
of the following 13 components, at least for the near future. This means
that your initial CRM system will consist of one or more of these
components, and is likely to grow over time to include additional
components from this list, as well as new components that will emerge as
the CRM industry matures.
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| Supply chain encompasses all
of those activities associated with moving goods from raw materials stage
through to the end user. This includes procurement, production scheduling,
order processing, inventory control, transportation ,warehousing and
customer service. Importantly, it also embodies the information systems so
necessary to monitor all of these activities. (Look at Figure 1)
Successful supply chain management, then, coordinates and integrates all of these activities into a seamless process .It embraces and links all of the partners in the chain. In addition to the departments within the organization, these partners include vendors, carriers, third-party companies, and information systems provider. |
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| B2C ecommerce or Business to
Consumer e-commerce is electronic commerce conducted between a business
and the consumer over the Internet. Usually B2C ecommerce requires a business to host their web site with a web presence provider such as Home Page Rentals .Com. At Home Page Rentals we provide you with EZ-Net Tools, a complete B2C tool chest. |
| 13 March 01 |
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| A portal site has nothing to
do with how much money you have or how well known your site is. A portal
is simply a web site that offers a doorway into a world of information
ABOUT a specific thing. It doesn't have to be about the internet. It can
just as easily, (in fact more easily), be a doorway into a specific topic
that you are interested in. A portal is a system of integrated programs designed to make it easier for a user to find information. Typically these programs will include things like free e-mail, chats, forums, classified ads and most importantly a search engine. The purpose of all these integrated programs is to provide convenience, and a sense of community to the user, and to help make the user feel more comfortable about using the portal for the purpose of beginning their journey from "there" as opposed to trying to go out all over the internet and find all the pieces of the puzzles for themselves. So in this sense the portal is offering a valuable time-saving |
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| eCommerce literally stands
for "electronic commerce". It is leveraging the power of the
Internet to conduct business. This includes the buying and selling of
products and services by businesses and consumers over the Internet.
eCommerce also encompasses other aspects of running a business such as
customer support, billing, tracking, marketing and any other business
function over electronic means. |
| 12 March 01 |
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| Electronic Data Interchange
(EDI) allows for the transmission of data, in a standard syntax, between
computer systems that might otherwise be incompatible. EDI is used widely
by the public and private sectors for commercial transactions and general
data transfer. As an "open systems" approach to data exchange,
EDI is largely independent from technology environments, providing a
transparent bridge between incompatible hardware and software platforms. EDI is essentially a series of computer language translations. If two companies agree to exchange data via EDI, both translate their outgoing data into a common language and then convert their respective incoming data from that common language into one that their computers can read. Data being sent from Company A, for example, are translated into common language and sent to a third party mailbox with an address identifying Company B as the recipient of that data. Company B then retrieves that data from its mailbox using a common language translator which converts the data from common language into one that can be understood by Company B’s computer system. An application then transfers the data to Company B’s mailbox using an application interface. |
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| Businesses have much to gain
from automating transactions with suppliers, partners and customers. There
are increases in efficiency, and a wide range of other possible benefits
include fewer errors, faster supply, lower stock holdings, and the ability
to offer personalized goods and services.
Until recently, business-to-business automated message exchanges were carried out by electronic data interchange (EDI). Value added networks (VANs) were subscribed to by larger firms, for whom the service was cost-effective. Now the Internet has enabled cheaper business-to-business e-commerce, bringing it within the reach of all of the firms in a supply chain. As a result, major changes in the ways that business is conducted are expected. Net markets are appearing in many sectors. These electronic marketplaces bring buyers and sellers together in a secure online environment and may offer other benefits such as information and forums for exchange of ideas. |
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| Not Active Server Pages. But Application Service Providers (ASPs) are outsourcing companies that rent packaged, ERP application solutions that have been licensed from a software vendor; provide remote access to them via the Internet; and provide bundled support services along with the application services. |
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| ERP (excuse me, blurp..)
stands for Enterprise Resource Planning, a software
system that aims to serve as a backbone for your whole business. It
integrates key business and management processes to provide a sky-level
view of much of what's going on in your organization. ERP tracks company
financials, human resources data and (if applicable) all the manufacturing
information such as where you put your inventory and when it needs to be
taken from the parts warehouse to the shop floor. Note: The ERP acronym is an outgrowth of MRP (Materials Requirements Planning) and MRP II (Manufacturing Resource Planning), older types of manufacturing-specific software that aim to keep the right inventories on hand and the lines humming. The leader in ERP market share, and the one that invented the market to an extent, is the German company SAP AG with its R/3 software. Other big players include PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., Baan Co. NV and J.D. Edwards & Co. "What manufacturers need is a comprehensive computer system that integrates and coordinates information on nearly every aspect of the enterprise. This system is called, MRP, which can mean Material Requirements Planning, Manufacturing Resource Planning or both, depending on how it is implemented." |
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