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        Database applications, 172–178      Development                         Ellis, Jonathan, 188n
          browser forms, reports, queries, applications,   global IS systems challenges, 513–514  Elzinga, Dave, 316n
           175–178                            ideas into products, 452–453      Email
          components of system, 174f          IS department and, 430f, 431        collaboration and, 49–50
          defining, 173                       native apps, 136–137                malware and, 408
          forms, queries, reports, applications, 174–175  primary drivers of systems and, 481f  PRISM and, 418
          multiuser processing, 178           processes, 459–460                  spoofing, 393
        Database management system (DBMS),   Differentiation strategy, 88         on work computers, 436–437
           170–172                          DigitalOne, 512                     eMarketer, 142n
          administering database, 172       Digital subscriber line (DSL), 216  Empathetic thinking vs. egocentric, 70–71
          creating database and structure, 170  Dimension, characteristic of measure, 356  Employee resistance, to change, 276
          processing database, 170–172      Direct installation, 476            Employees
        Databases                           Director of computer services, 430    mobile device use at work, 145–147
          components of, 166f               Director of information services, 430  monitoring, 240–241
          defining, 164–165                 Dirty data, 350–351, 354              privacy and work computers, 436–437
          metadata, 167, 170                Discrimination, in pay, ethics, 168–169  security policy for in-house, 410f
          purpose of, 163–164               Discussion forums, collaboration and, 50, 50f  security threat safeguards and, 410–412
          relationships among rows, 165–167  Diseconomies of scale, 481           social media policy and, 319–320
          single-user, 174                  Dissemination/enforcement security    unethical treatment of, 86–87
        Database tier, 220–221                 safeguards, 411                  Employers, recruiting, social media and,
        Data characteristics, 18–19         Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), 399  326–327
        Data flow, 461, 464                 Distribute systems, 277             Employment, MIS and, 9–10. See also Careers;
        Data integration, security and, 280–281  Distributed database processing, 506  Jobs entries
        Data integrity, normalizing for, 183–184  DistroWatch.com, 128n         Encapsulated, 223
        Data integrity problems, 183, 258   Ditkoff, Mitch, 38                  Encryption, 232, 404–406, 409, 511
        Datalogix, 352                      DNSstuff, 415                       Encryption algorithms, 404
        Data marts, 349–351, 354–355        Document checkout, version control, 59  Enterprise 2.0, 317
        Data mining                         Document collaboration apps, 52     Enterprise application integration (EAI),
          organizational use of, 359–363    Document storage, 53                   269–270
          in real world, 376–377            Dogfooding, 75–79                   Enterprise applications, international, 506
        Data models, 178–182                Doing phase, project management, 46  Enterprise application solutions, 261–262
          into database design, 182–187     Domain names, 219                   Enterprise information systems, 255, 259–260,
          defined, 179                      Donovan, Fred, 425n                    274–276
          entities, 179–180                 Dot.com bust, 501                   Enterprise processes, 255
          entity-relationship (E-R) data model,   DoubleClick, 381                business process engineering, 261
           179–182                          Drill down, 357                       CRM and, 262–263
          process of, 179                   DropBox, 151                          enterprise application integration (EAI),
          relationships, 180–182            Drucker, Peter, 438                    269–270
        Data modeling, Kant and, 192–193    DSL line, 216                         enterprise application solutions, 261–262
        Data processing, databases. see Databases  Dual-processor, computer hardware, 116  enterprise resource planning (ERP), 263, 265,
        Data safeguards, 409                Duhigg, Charles, 342n                  268–269
        Data storytelling, 364              Duty, 21                              ERP elements, 271–274. See also Enterprise
        Data triangulation, 374             DVD storage, 116                       resource planning (ERP)
        Data warehouses, 349, 354–355       Dynamic processes vs. structured, 252–253f,   Enterprise resource planning (ERP), 263, 265,
        Datum, 17f                             256n                                268–269, 504
        DB2, 170                            Dynamic reports, 371                  business process procedures, 272
        DBMS. See Database management system  Dynamo software, 188                databases, 271–272
        Dean, Jeffrey, 188n                                                       future of, 277–279
        Decision-making, business intelligence and,   E                           hardware, 271
           341                              EAI (enterprise application integration),   industry-specific solutions, 272–274
        Decision-making, collaboration and,    269–270                            major vendors of, 274
           42–44, 48f                       Earliest date, 480                    program applications, 271
          collaboration systems, 43–44      Earnest, Josh, 419                    standard blueprints and, 282–283
          managerial decisions, 42–43       eBay, 1, 107                          training and consulting, 272
          operational decisions, 42         EB (exabyte), 118                   Enterprise silos, 276–277
          process of, 43                    E-commerce, 142                     Enterprise social network (ESN)
          relationship decision type/process, 43  Economies of scale, 209         best practices, 319f
          strategic decisions, 43           Economist, The, 135                   communication, changing, 318
        Decision support systems, 341       Economy, global. See Global economy entries  defining, 316–319
        Decision tree, 362–363              EDAG.de, 125n                         deploying successful, 318–319
        Decryption, 232                     Edwards, Jim, 314n                    enterprise 2.0, 317
        Dedman, Bill, 419n                  Egocentric vs. empathetic thinking, 70–71  Entertainment, BI and, 342
        Degusta, Michael, 142               Elance, development clearinghouse, 452  Entities, 179–180
        Deliverables, 477                   Elastic, as cloud attribute, 207–210  Entity-relationship (E-R) data model, 179–182
        Deloitte & Touche, 512              Elastic Cloud 2 (Amazon), 108       Entity-relationship (E-R) diagrams, 181
        Denial of service (DoS), 394        Elements of Scrum, The (Sims & Johnson), 489  Entry barriers, 95
        Desktop virtualization, 130         Elgin, Ben, 424n                    Espinhara, Joaquim, 399
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