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Department of Management Information Systems, Temple University

Digital Systems

MIS 2101.730 ■ Spring 2023 ■ Steven E. Sclarow, AIA
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3b Business Intelligence

Sami Barhoum - February 28, 2023 Leave a Comment

Business intelligence helps give organizations the ability to ask questions in plain language and get answers they can understand. Instead of using educated guesses, they can base decisions on what their business data is telling them, whether that is production, customers, market trends.
Business intelligence helps organizations become more data driven, improve performances, and gain competitive advantage.
Business intelligence connects a wide variety of different data systems and data sets,
It also helps provide a deep analysis, helping users uncover hidden relationships and patterns.
Business intelligence helps presents answers in informative and compelling data visualizations like reports, maps, charts and graphs.
It can also monitor business operations and fix or make improvements on an ongoing basis which is given by data insights.
Organizations can benefit when they fully assess operations and processes to understand their customers. They need the right tools to aggregate business information from anywhere, analyze it, and discover patterns and find solutions.

3a Purpose of ERP

Sami Barhoum - February 28, 2023 1 Comment

ERP or enterprise resource planning is a system that integrates all of the different aspects used in a business including purchasing, planning, inventory, sales, HR, and more. There are many different benefits with integrating an ERP.
The first benefit being you can get a better view and understanding of your business, By integrating an ERP system it helps businesses understand the main goal or picture to determine other problems within that business that can be improved.
Another benefit of an ERP system is that it helps better communication within the business. When different departments try to communicate within each other information can get lost, data could be wrong, and communication may be off. An ERP system helps reduce repetitive procedures, and lacking communication, and helps everybody within that business have the same up to date information.
I work at ADP, and we have a similar ERP system that I pitch to my clients to help them store all that information so for example when year end comes, they have all the data they need in one cloud base.
The link below is a good image that shows what an ERP does, and how it helps.

2b Question Digital Identity

Sami Barhoum - February 28, 2023 1 Comment

Digital identities are how we prove who we say we are in an online context. We all have a digital identity. Whether that be what we post on social media like videos and photos, blog posts, youtube posts. Anything that is on the internet is there to stay, it is hard or likely impossible to get rid of it once it is posted. It helps to have a good digital identity because it helps establish who you are online, so if you are applying for a major job and they do a quick search and find something bad, it can hurt your chances and hurt your future chances. Digital identity can also be used to verify your identity when logging into websites or making purchases, and it can also be used to protect your privacy, hence why we have verification processes when logging into some websites. Having a good digital identity protects yourself and your image, if someone were to gain access to your digital identity, they could cause serious harm to your self image.

2A Question What is an ERD?

Sami Barhoum - February 28, 2023 Leave a Comment

An Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) is an illustration of a flowchart that represents people, objects, ot concepts that relate to each other within a system. They are usually used to design databases intn specific jobs, businesses, use it for research. In an ERD you use symbols such as rectangles, diamonds, ovals, and connecting lines to connect each entity together whether that is what they do or the relationship. ERD’s can help businesses document their databases so it will cause less problems, inefficiencies, and help improve processes within the entity. ERDs help visualize how data is connected in a general less complicated way, it makes the process easier to understand. You can use ERD’s for many relationships whether that be, a one to one relationship, a one to many relationship, or a many to many relationship. All these relationships help define attributes within the entity more clearly. Down below shows an example of an ERD diagram.

1B Question Why are we learning salesforce?

Sami Barhoum - February 28, 2023 1 Comment

I believe the benefits of Salesforce is so we have that skill so in the future it makes it easier to find clients, potential clients, prospects, investments, close deals. I work at ADP and I use salesforce and this tool really helps me when I want to find the information on a client or potential client. Salesforce offers a wide range of products and solutions for small, medium, and large companies. Salesforce teaches us a skill. It helps us in the future create these solutions to implement in our jobs and future careers. I could implant salesforce for my dad’s business. I know it would absolutely help him keep data about prospects, clients, and potential clients, whether that is how much they want to give to him, if he spoke to them already, how much they are willing to invest if they were to use his company. It helps the employer stay organized. 

1 A Question

Sami Barhoum - February 28, 2023 2 Comments

MIS professionals main job is to create information systems for data management, they search, store, and analyze data. They take care of a variety of information systems to meet the needs of their boss. They also analyze their clients data and take that into account as well. MIS professionals play a key role for businesses with information security, and exchange, Their main goal is to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of their company. They manage various information systems to meet the needs of managers, staff and customers. By working collaboratively with various members of their work group, as well as with their customers and clients, MIS professionals are able to play a key role in areas such as information security, integration, and exchange. As an MIS profession, you will learn to design, implement, and use business information systems in innovative ways to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of your company.

What If 6A

Cassidy Mantle - February 28, 2023 2 Comments

The use of what if statements in coding is to help execute a code block if the conditions are true. The specified condition must be true in order for the execution of the code to be guaranteed. The basic syntax if/else statements are only executed if the condition of the code is true as well. Therefore these functions help to identify whether or no a block of code is true on the platform. The purpose of the ISNan function is to help verify the accuracy of a number being used in a function. The IsNan function typically returns as true if all else is false. The && used is evaluated when it is read from left to right. Typically it is returned right away with the original operator encountered. If and else functions are differentiated by what the overall results they intend on getting are. Therefore when it comes to if functions, it helps to bring out a code which when run, the condition must be proven as true versus the else function which expects the running of the code to be proven as false. Therefore they are differentiated by the  results that they correspond with which are true and false statements. The else statement does not take on a boolean expression but the IF statement does when the value is proven to be true. 

Javascript function 5B

Cassidy Mantle - February 28, 2023 1 Comment

A function in javascript is a group of statements that execute a task or helps to calculate a value. Therefore functions are the solutions to help provide a variable. In javascript, calling a function is a method of running the code and testing whether the variables were used correctly in the statements being performed. Therefore typically people run their function at the end to check whether the code was formatted and used properly. When one passes a function arguments , that means that the function being executed and passed has been successfully entered in. This stores the data in the online platform data cloud. The purpose of the return keyword in functions is to end the function while also returning the controls to the original function being executed.

Why is JavaScript “Event-Driven”? (7A)

Madeline Elia - February 28, 2023 4 Comments

JavaScript is “event-driven” because it is an interactive language. It is always waiting for the user to do something. Typing on a keyboard, submitting a form, refreshing a screen, and many other things prompt the program to execute some form of code. On a website, though, there are several other factors working behind the scenes. HTML, which stands for Hypertext Markup Language, is responsible for displaying the content that you see. In addition, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) controls the formatting and layout of the website. It can format multiple pages and save a lot of time for programmers. Neither HTML and CSS have the ability to be interactive, so that’s why JavaScript is super important. Many websites that rely on interactivity, such as Amazon, Google, Gmail and other email sites are dependent on the capabilities of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Without their existence and collaboration, so many websites wouldn’t work correctly or at all.

The 3 Types of Loops and Their Purpose (6B)

Madeline Elia - February 28, 2023 Leave a Comment

Loops are a great tool because they’ll repeat a certain chunk of code without us having to retype it a bunch of times. Overall, it saves a lot of time and screen space. There are three types of loops: the for, while, and do-while loops. For every kind of loop, we have to establish what code we want to repeat (which is the loop) and then create a stopping point for when a certain condition is met. The for loop is commonly used and will keep going until the loop comes back as false. The while loop repeats until the looping condition comes back as false. A do while loop doesn’t execute unless the first set of conditions aren’t met from the start. Going back to the for loop, there are a few important things it needs to function. First, it needs a starting point. This is normally where the code is declared and initialized. Next, it needs a condition. This is basically what tells the loop when it’s going to stop. Finally, the loop needs to have a step. This determines what will happen to the starting point. For example, if it increases by 1, we type in i++. A for loop with all of its key components would look something like this:

for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
saySomething();
}
function saySomething () {
document.writeIn(“hello!”);
}

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