Business Information Systems

Business Intelligence (BI)

Business Intelligence is the process of discovering and analyzing data to make informed business decisions. The management in any business needs this aspect of management as part of the companies integral infrastructure in today’s world in order for the business to succeed.  The data collected from many of the data collecting sources is used to determine trends, or measure, manage and improve on the performances of individuals, processes, teams and business units.  The enterprise refers to any business organisation that uses computers as an integral part of their business and relies on it for that businesses development.

The History Of Business Intelligence

The term Business Intelligence was coined by the Gartner group in mid-1990s.… Read the rest

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Case Study of Zara : Application of Business Intelligence in Retail Industry

ZARA is a Spanish clothing and accessories retailer based in Arteixo, Galicia.  Founded in 24 May ,1975 by Amancio Ortega and Rosalía Mera, the brand is renowned for it’s ability to deliver new clothes to stores quickly and in small batches. Zara needs just two weeks to develop a new product and get it to stores, compared to the six-month industry average, and launches around 10,000 new designs each year. Zara was described by Louis Vuitton Fashion Director Daniel Piette as “possibly the most innovative and devastating retailer in the world.  The company produces about 450 million items a year for its 1,770 stores in 86 countries.… Read the rest

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Comparison Between Proprietary Software and Open Source Software

Proprietary software can be defined as closed software that is distributed under a license agreement that limits any modifications to the software. Its just opposite to the concept of Open source software. Open source software can be defined as software that is distributed freely under a license agreement with no limitations on changes made to the source code.

Many proprietary corporations make software freely available to users. For example, Adobe provides users with the Adobe Acrobat Reader. The Adobe Acrobat Reader is an application that users to view documents that have been saved in the portable document format (PDF). The PDF format is developed by Adobe and has become a standard in saving files as electronic documents.… Read the rest

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Different Types of Electronic Authentication

Nowadays as we know, technology is improving and businesses corporations, consumers, marketers and governments are moving forward to using it and depend on it. While all these kinds of users have been moved forward to using this technology, so all their transactions work go through it and specially through E-mails to communicate with each other. Even though not only the E-mail that used to communicate, there are so many ways to transfer information or some other things need to be done through this huge technology. But with this huge moved, it’s still not safe to use it without any kind of protection and security such as authentication to recognize if those massages or transfers or requests coming from the right and trusted sides.… Read the rest

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Case Study of Air Asia: Information Technology Implementation for Business Success

Information Technology (IT) is one of the major enablers of AirAsia’s successful low cost business model. AirAsia had demonstrated the strategic value of information and communications technology (ICT) in improving competitiveness with a very high majority of its passengers making their bookings online. AirAsia was also the world’s first airline to allow SMS (short messaging service) booking and payment of airline tickets. In 2003, AirAsia proud to be the first airline in the world to offer flight booking and payment via Short Messaging Service (SMS) and make their guests flight booking anytime and from anywhere 24 hours and 7 days a week.… Read the rest

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Characteristics of a Distributed System

Distributed Systems is an upcoming area in computer science and has the ability to have a large impact on the many aspects in  the medical, scientific, financial and commercial sector.

The most commonly used definition for a distributed system is, a system comprised of geographically dispersed computing components interacting on a hardware or software level. The rise in interest for distributed computing can be attributed to two major factors. The first factor is the creation and advancements in local and wide area networks which allow for large amounts of data to be transmitted over great distances in a short period of time.… Read the rest

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