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Question 1. Which of the following statements is true about data marts?
Data marts are larger than data warehouses.
A data mart is like a distributor in a supply chain, while a data warehouse can be compared to a retail store.
Data mart users possess the data management expertise that data warehouse employees have.
Data marts address the needs of a particular department or functional area of a business.
Question 2. A ____________ is an information system that supports the sharing of content among networks of users.
transaction processing system (TPS)
human resource information system (HRIS)
social media information system (SMIS)
database management system (DBMS)
Question 3. Web 2.0 refers to Web-delivered services and content paid for by ____________ .
investors
SM sponsors
users
advertisers
Question 4. ____________ is the process of obtaining, cleaning, organizing, relating, and cataloging source data.
Data encryption
Data entry
Data acquisition
Data mining
Question 5. Web 2.0 encourages companies to provide software ____________ .
as a free service
as a licensed product with high fees
with controlled releases
as a non-installable product
Question 6. What is a reporting application? Name five basic reporting operations.
Your response should be at least 200 words in length.
Question 7. What is knowledge management and what are its primary benefits?
Your response should be at least 200 words in length.
Question 8. Research the major risks for businesses that indulge in commercial applications of social networking. Also, review the readings on page 311 of your textbook about how organizations can respond to social networking problems. Organizations may respond to social networking problems in one of three ways:
• leave it
• respond to it
• delete it
In this discussion, identify a major problem for an organization that participates in social networking, and then discuss how the organization should respond to that problem.
Your response should be at least 200 words in length.