May 17, 2012
The article I chose touches on how tax authorities are challenged with collecting and identifying businesses that do not pay their correct taxes. Believe it or not, businesses and everyday people cheat on their taxes, whether it be for a higher refund or to elude from paying more money back to the government. Of all [...]
By Chris Sabatino Category: Customer Relationship Management and Business Intelligence, Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Databases and Data Warehouses, Strategic Decision Making
May 6, 2012
According to Oracle, the global CRM market will surpass 18.2 billion in 2012. It was anticipated that the acquisition of Rightnow enables Oracle to expand its use of Cloud Computing but Oracle has recently unveiled a new product roadmap for end-to-end customer experience. Rightnow has spent fourteen years on building customer experience products and brings [...]
By Han Chan Category: Customer Relationship Management and Business Intelligence, Interactive Web Development (CIS 311), Strategic Decision Making Tags: CRM, customer experience, CX, Oracle, Rightnow, Suite, UX
Apr 29, 2012
This article brings to light the importance of data governance. Basically data governance is the discipline of converging data quality, management, policies and risk management revolving around the handling of data. Summed up, its just like talking about data integrity. There are five steps toward data governance, starting with a working group, developing an operational [...]
By Chris Sabatino Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Databases and Data Warehouses, E-Business, Ethics and Information Security, IS in Business, Strategic Decision Making
Apr 15, 2012
This article discuses the pros and cons of using html5 for business that are building and deploying web content. Some of the reasons to use html5 includes: deployment across multiple platforms, which leads to maintaining one batch of code with less maintenance and a lower lifetime cost; offers more storage options; development of html5 apps may lead [...]
By Davina Vilaylak Category: Interactive Web Development (CIS 311), Strategic Decision Making Tags: HTML5
Apr 8, 2012
In this article, the concepts and differences between waterfall models and prototype models and explained. The waterfall (SDLC) method is linear and is regarded as being well structured and organized. The process is basically understanding the requirements, followed by design, implementation, integration, testing the product and finally maintenance. The prototype method involves raw models of [...]
By Chris Sabatino Category: Database Design and Development (CIS 305), Strategic Decision Making, Systems Development and Project Management
Nov 20, 2011
Summary: Hewlett-Packard was planning to buy Stratavia in order to make its company stronger. Stratavia is a company that focused on developing application deployment automation solution for support, coding, configuration management, patching and back –ups. With this company combining with Hp, the business portfolio will make the company portfolio better. It will become a one [...]
By peterchea Category: Strategic Decision Making Tags: Database, HP, Stratavia
Sep 6, 2010
Reports: Google considering iTunes-like music service “GOOGLE Music” Google doesn’t want only to be a search engine as most of youth people us for. Now Google want to explore new ways to satisfy the large demanded of people in the digital world of music. Compact Discs (DC’s) have become old for some of us, now [...]
By Melchor Santillan Pina Category: Strategic Decision Making
Sep 6, 2010
Go Shopping; change the world By – C. McCloy Kliener Perkins company founded an iFund that allows people to donated to a charity of their choice via an iPhone. The app can be downloaded for free and the donations don’t cost the cell phone user a dime. The app is paired with a built in navigation unit that when [...]
By justinpage Category: Strategic Decision Making
Sep 6, 2010
Wal-Mart is one of the biggest retailers in the world. They have often been known for using the latest in technology for their everyday operations. Most Retail chains and other companies including Wal-Mart use the bar code system to help them track and distribute inventory. A pallet would have a bar code and a worker [...]
By Alan Serrano Category: Strategic Decision Making
Sep 5, 2010
An Introduction to Business Process Reengineering By Angela Salemme In order to keep up with today’s fast changing business and technology environments, organizations cannot afford to develop and streamline their processes at a slow, incremental pace. Firms must reinvent their processes to see remarkable enhancement to compete in today’s marketplace. This method [...]
By angelamsalemme Category: Strategic Decision Making
Sep 1, 2010
T-mobile beats Version, At&t and Sprint in Customer is an article about t-mobile beating all it’s competitors in customer service. The U.S. Wireless Customer Care Performance Study surveyed 9690 wireless customer which turned out to state that T-mobile came on top with a ranking of 777 out of a 1000 points, which beats out the industry [...]
By mwalker1 Category: Strategic Decision Making
Sep 1, 2010
Section 2.1: Decision-Making Systems Artificial Intelligence Learns To Play Music My article “Virtual Musicians, Real Performances: How Artificial Intelligence Will Change Music” is about a company called Zenph Sound Innovations and how they are developingcomplex software that models musical performances based off of old music recordings. In the simplest of terms, this company is designing artificial [...]
By Nicholas Semorile Category: Strategic Decision Making
Sep 1, 2010
In the article “Gmail’s new mind-reading inbox” I found on CNNMoney.com by David Goldman talks about one of the many new features Google has come out with is “Priority mail”. I know Gmail does have a Spam box but not all emails are Spam and sometimes you are stuck with a list full of emails in your [...]
By Tommy Category: Strategic Decision Making
Aug 31, 2010
Section 2.1: Decision-Making Systems Siri – An Artificial Intelligence System In the article “Siri launches voice-powered iPhone ‘Assistant’”, Dylan F. Tweney describes a new artificial intelligence system called Siri. Siri is a new iPhone application which is free of charge and is a personal computer assistant which recognizes speech. Siri currently works in the United [...]
By MarinaSchweizer Category: Strategic Decision Making
Aug 28, 2010
Section 2.1: Decision-Making Systems In the article, “SMARTER THAN YOU THINK; Computers That Listen to You Make Strides in Talking Back,” authors Steve Lohr and John Markoff takes a look at the latest development of artificial intelligence (AI) and what it will mean for our futures. With the advancement of AI technology, future generations will [...]
By Ia Vang Category: Strategic Decision Making
Dec 16, 2009
This article described discussed and compared new technology that was offer in a few vehicles (the VW Touran, the Toyota Prius Spirit, and the Lexus LS460 to be specific). This technology is called the intelligent parking assistant, and it does what it implies (Parks your vehicle). This feature was put to the blind fold test [...]
By joserosas Category: Strategic Decision Making
Dec 16, 2009
Artificial Intelligence is a fast growing form of Information Systems. This form of Information systems is highly beneficial to the business world. A recent use of Artificial Intelligence is seen in Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Urban Challenge. This challenge was highlighted on MSNBC’s technology section in an article titled “Driverless SUV wins $2 [...]
By KatieMajors Category: Strategic Decision Making
Dec 14, 2009
Chapter 2. IS in Business Information systems such as the Internet help people make key decisions in and out of the business world. There are a wide array of resources one can go to for information . One of the commonly hit resources via the Internet is Wikipedia which many people have a misconception about [...]
By Eric Gomez Category: Strategic Decision Making
Nov 16, 2009
Toyota focuses on the Just-in-Time manufacturing system. ‘Kanban’ concept, which was one of the principles on which Toyota’s JIT was based. The Kanban philosophy is Developed by the Japanese, the JIT production system was one of the most significant production management approaches of the post World War II era. The system comprised a set of [...]
By Jung Sook Baek Category: Strategic Decision Making
Nov 6, 2009
We have all seen the movies. Humans are co-existing with machines and everyone is happy, until the machines join forces with one another and try to wipe mankind of the face of the earth. Many have thought about the possibility of machines outsmart humans. In Monterey Bay, CA, artificial intelligence researchers, leading computer scientists, and [...]
By sounthonesiharath Category: Strategic Decision Making