Hardware

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Software

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Supports the monitoring and processing of data from business transactions.

Collects, processes, stores, analyzes, and disseminates information for a specific purpose.

Professional employees such as analysts, engineers, lawyers, and accountants.

Processed data conveying understanding and expertise for business problems.

Database

Devices such as processors, monitors, keyboards, and printers.

The collection of application programs in a single department.

Computer$-$based tool for organizational information$-$processing needs.

Systems that connect two or more organizations.

Network

The strategy that utilizes IT for improvements and new business models.

Elementary descriptions of things, events, activities, and transactions.

Program or collection of programs that enable hardware processing.

Organized data with meaning and value.

Procedures

A computer program designed to support specific tasks or business processes.

A business strategy leveraging IT to improve relationships and processes.

A collection of related files or tables containing data.

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People

Instructions for combining components to process information.

The combination of hardware, software, networks, and databases.

Connecting system that allows computers to share resources.

IT Platform

Application $/$ App $/$ Application Program

Departmental Information System $/$ FAIS

Transaction Processing System $($TPS$)$

Interorganizational Information Systems $($IOSs$)$

Knowledge Workers