MGT 417 is stand for Introduction to Information Systems, in every chapter we will see how real global businesses use technology and information systems to increase their profitability, gain market share, improve their customer service, and manage their daily operations.
The goals are to teach all business majors, especially undergraduate ones, how to use IT to master their current or future jobs and to help ensure the success of their organization. The focus is not on merely learning the concepts of information technology but rather on applying those concepts to facilitate business process. Concentrate on placing information systems in the context of business, so that students will more readily grasp the concepts presented in the next.
Today I will explain about Network Applications on Chapter 5. The objectives of learning this chapter are students can describe the four major network applications. Seconds, students can discuss the various techniques, applications and web sites that fall under the umbrella of Web 2.0. Students also can differentiate between e-learning and distance learning. Last but not least, students can understand the advantages and disadvantages of telecommuting for both employers and employees.
Network Applications are consists of four major network applications that are discovery, communications and collaborations and google. Discovery allows users to browse and search data sources in all topics areas on the Web. Search engines are computer that search for specific information by key words and report the results. Metasearch engines search several engines at once and integrate the findings of the various search engines to answer queries posted by users. Portals is a Web-based, personalized gateway to information and knowledge that provides relevant information and knowledge that provides relevant information from different IT systems and the Internet using advanced search and indexing techniques. There are 5 types of portals such as commercial (public) portals ,affinity portals ,mobile portals ,corporate portals ,industrywide portals. Communication networks application consists of electronic mail (e-mail), customer call center, electronic chat room, network communication and unified communication. Collaboration networks refers to efforts of two or more entities (individuals, teams, groups or organizations) who work together to accomplish certain tasks. Its consists of work group, virtual group, virtual collaboration, workflow technologies, groupware, teleconferencing, videoconference, web conferencing and real-time collaboration tools. Google networks we usually mention in its section because the company is delevoping and deploying applications thar span discovery, communications and collaboration.
Web 2.0 is a loose collection of information technologies and applications, and the Web sites that use them. Web 2.0’s application are AJAX that is a web development techniques that allows portions of web pages to reload with fresh data instead of requiring the entire web page is reload. The second one is tagging. A tag is a keyword or term that describes a piece of information example like blog, picture, article or video clip. Then, the blog and blogging. A blog is a personal web site, open to the public, in which the site creator expresses his or her feelings or opinions. After that, wikis is a web site on which anyone can post material and make changes to other material. Really Simple Syndication (RSS) will allows user to receive or customize the information they receive when they want it without having to surf thousands of web sites. Last but not least is podcasts and videocasts. A podcast is a digital audio file that is distributed over the web using RSS for playback on portable media players or personal computers. A videocast is the same as a podcast only with digital media and audio content. There are 3 categories of Web 2.0 sites such as Social Networking sites, Aggregators and Mashups.
E-learning refers to learning supported by the Web and Distance learning (DL) refers to any learning situation in which teachers and students do not meet face-to-face. The benefits of E-learning are self-paced learning increases content retention. Online materials can deliver current content that is of high-quality and consistent. Then students have the flexibility of learning from any place at any time at their own pace. Moreover, learning time generally is shorter and more people can be trained due to the faster training time and can lowering the cost of training. But also have its drawbacks such as instructors may need training to be able to teach electronically and the purchases of additional multimedia equipment may be necessary. Students also must be computer literate and may miss the face-to-face interaction with instructors. Even there are issues with assessing students’ work as instructors really do not know who completed the assignments.
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