Before coming to Temple University I did not have a digital identity. Oh no, I lied. I had social media accounts and it was not very professional in my opinion. Once I got to Temple University I learned a few things about digital identity and changed my social media accounts around. I deleted content that should stay private such as parties. I did this because Temple University explained that it is good to have a good digital identity because when applying for employment employers look at your digital identity. They look at it and compare it to how you may represent the company and think would this look good on the company. Temple has the MIS Community that allows students to gain professional development and learn about managing systems. The purpose of an e-portfolio is that it is a place where students can show off their skills and work. For example with my e-portfolio I uploaded my resume.
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Entity Relationship Diagram-ERD
Oh, I am not looking forward to doing these Entity Relationship Diagrams aka ERDs. ERDs are data models. They seem difficult. I understand that they consist of entities that are rectangles, relationships are diamonds, and there are lines connecting the two showing the relationship between them. To help identify this look for the nouns that would be the entity, the adjectives would be the attribute, and the verb would be the relationship. I think it will also be a little confusing because it is similar to Swim Lane Diagrams. I hope I do not confuse them. The diagram has primary keys that uniquely define the record. Oh, and I almost forgot there are crows feet 1:1 a one-to-zero or one relationship, 1:m a one-to-zero or many relationship, and m:m a many-to-zero or many relationship. A lot of information, right? Well, let us see how this goings…
2b Questions
Weekly questions to consider when creating your posts. These questions are a jumping off point to asking your own questions, pose new ideas, and provide explanations and examples backed by careful analysis. Apply class concepts, terms, and theories too. Refer to Assignment 12 for additional details.
- What is your digital identity, and what can you do to manage that identity?
- Why is it important to have a good digital identity?
- What is the MIS community platform?
- What is the purpose of building an e-portfolio?
2a Questions
Weekly questions to consider when creating your posts. These questions are a jumping off point to asking your own questions, pose new ideas, and provide explanations and examples backed by careful analysis. Apply class concepts, terms, and theories too. Refer to Assignment 12 for additional details.
- What is an ERD?
- What are the two notations for ERD’s?
- What are the primary symbols?
- Entity, Attribute, Relationship
- What are the different relationships in crow’s foot notation, and how do you express those relationships?
- ERD tables – key things?
- What is Salesforce?
- What are Dynamic Dashboards and what are their functions?
- What are the types of cardinality and how are they utilized?
3a Questions
Weekly questions to consider when creating your posts. These questions are a jumping off point to asking your own questions, pose new ideas, and provide explanations and examples backed by careful analysis. Apply class concepts, terms, and theories too. Refer to Assignment 12 for additional details.
- Important acronyms to know:
- ERP
- CRM
- What is the purpose of ERP?
- What are some of the issues with legacy systems?
- What is the purpose of a CRM?
- Who uses CRMs?
- What are the similarities and differences between ERP and CRM?
- What do velocity and veracity mean, and how do they relate to data integrity?
What is MIS? Lab 1A
SDLCs are software development life cycles. The two main types are waterfall and agile SDLCs. Waterfall SDLCs express a set of phases, building off of one another and creating a linear slope. Agile SDLCs are more collaborative approaches as all work in the development is done at the same time. MIS is the use of systems in helping business professionals understand the use of technology in an organization. Mis professionals help businesses create efficiency with the use of technology and systems. These systems can be created to solve problems, make decisions, or plan ahead based on past events. We use many systems daily that most do not even think about, including me. In class, we had gone over a couple of examples, including ordering pizza and ordering off from amazon. Both these include extensive systems that would not occur to you unless brought to someone’s attention. These systems have been created to efficiently bring the consumer what they need in a timely, orderly manner. The important acronyms are SDLC- software development life cycles, API- application programming interface, ERP- enterprise resource planning, and UX- user experience. The four core processes of designing UX(user experience) are research, design, test, and implement. A system analysis is used in the professional world to understand what business procedures needed to be completed throughout a system by identifying problems. Systems are a bundle of technologies, networks, etc. used as resources to achieve organizational goals. The three components of systems are inputs, processes, and outputs.
MIS…What does it mean? What is it all about?
Personally, I have to admit that before this class I had limited knowledge about what MIS meant and what it actually consisted of. First and foremost, MIS stands for management information systems. At first glance, many may think that this is computer science. However, think again!! It is very important to remember that MIS is not computer science, but in fact, consists of many more concepts. Essentially, MIS is a business where people are training individuals to use technology to improve their day-to-day activities in their organizations. People use these methods to solve problems within their business, so MIS becomes the glue that ties the organization together. Those who work in MIS use data and analytics to come up with systems to help enhance companies, grow revenue, create new business models, and much more. So, I think that it’s safe to say that MIS is and never will be computer science. I’ve definitely learned how essential those who work in MIS are to all organizations!
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Why Should We Learn Salesforce? How Does it Benefit Students?
I believe that learning Salesforce is beneficial when taking an MIS course. Salesforce is a great platform that includes many useful features that we can apply to what we are currently learning. It’s one thing to read articles about what those in MIS do, but it’s a whole other level of engagement to actually be able to practice those concepts on a platform. For example, when doing the Max Labs, we actually get to practice how to input data onto a platform, organize the data to make it more efficient for our “company goals”, and even track values using dashboards. When doing this, it really helps tie in what we’ve read about and allows us to apply our newfound knowledge. Not to mention, this platform can also be utilized outside of the classroom as well. This course gives us the rundown on how to use Salesforce, which we could apply to future projects for future courses or even for a future job. Also, not to mention, having the ability to use Salesforce looks great on a resume. So, I believe that there are many benefits to using this platform.
Few Fundamentals of MIS (1a Question)
The waterfall model is basically like breaking up a project’s activities into mini projects. So, the success/moving forward of the project depends on if each step is completed. On the other hand, the Agile model is a more flexible process and the team can basically divide the work of the project and work on it at the same time. The critical difference between this SDLC model is that waterfall is much more time-consuming, whereas the agile model is not.
Based on our first lecture and the ppt, I think MIS is really about how businesses can, through the incorporation of technology can, make their businesses more efficient while at the same increasing profits. I’m not sure I understand the question correctly but I think the parts of a system that is involved in my daily life could be me accessing my temple id card and taping it on an NFC reader to go inside the parking place or to enter any temple building. Another example could be writing notes in my notebook. The four core processes of designing a UX are user research, design, testing, and implementation.
SDLC– Software Development Life Cycle, API– Application Programming Interface, ERP– Enterprise Resource Planning, and UX– User Experience
The system is basically the whole process of something. One example could be recording ourselves on zoom while taking a test and later on submitting it. All the steps that will be involved in this process will end up being classified as a system, The three components of systems are people, process, and technology.
System Analysis tries to understand what is the purpose of the task at the hand and identify what is the process to achieve that purpose and maybe standardize that process so that in the future, you can use that very same process to solve may be the same or a different problem.
I think the core of all systems is a process. If there is no process there won’t be any system.
MIS professionals use technology to help businesses or wherever they work to make better-informed decisions.
Benefits of Swimlane and Sales Force
Swim lanes are used to help give clarity in regards to storing data and information in one place. They organize the flow of data into a diagram which demonstrates the order in process for what is being acted upon or demonstrated at the moment. This helps to clarify processes that seem complex while also improving understanding for those interested in learning the order followed by the processes. Swim lanes use symbols such as a rectangle, diamond, circle, oval and square to signify the changes of events in the diagram. Therefore a swim lane always starts and ends with a circle because the circle demonstrates the start or ending of an activity. These different symbols used helps to demonstrate processes easier while also creating a way for readers to recognize what is going to happen or is happening during the process. Salesforce serves as a platform for customers to find the adequate tools necessary for their companies to help them grow, in terms of providing better service to their customers and retaining more while doing so. Salesforce is a software company which serves the market following Customer relationship management. Therefore it provides tools to help connect their customers with partners while also tracking data and marketing to customers. Salesforce is made easily accessible through the use of a well known browser or mobile app and is easily customizable to fit its consumers preferences.