What is in IT for Me?
Chapter 10: Data, Knowledge, and Decision Support
Accounting
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This site allows the user to access drawing software that can be used by the accountant to draw flowcharts and diagrams. This integration of IT and financial management gives the user a faster and neater tool for business.
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This site provides the means to purchase and use accounting software. This software is used to manage documents critical to the accounting system.
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This site shows court budget and accounting as the analytical and financial arm of the administrative office of the courts. All expenditures and revenues are evaluated in order to assure that critical court programs have the necessary resources to meet their needs.
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This company is a recruiting and placement firm, specializing in accounting, finance and information technology positions. They have utilized the Internet in their objective of staffing accountants.
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This site provides enterprise-wide healthcare decision support systems. This makes accounting in the health care industry more accurate and efficient.
Finance
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This company is a global provider of e-business software and services including e-commerce, e-procurement, enterprise resource planning, supply chain and CRM solutions for mid-sized manufacturing companies. This makes the company more stable and increases the financial success using IT.
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This company’s rules-based software products process transactions and market data in real time, enabling a broad range of financial institutions to consolidate information and distribute it firm wide and to customers over the Internet.
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This is a software development company specializing in providing global financial institutions and communication firms with complex enterprise-wide data management products.
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This company provides experience supporting, designing, and building new applications or integrating new systems into complex investment work flows. This establishes the financial institution as a stable company.
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This company publishes accurate, up-to-date operating cost data analyses for over 300 aircraft, aircraft performance & specifications databases for both fixed and rotary wing aircraft, and software to evaluate the long term ownership costs and financial impact of any aircraft.
Human Resource Management
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This company specializes in enterprise-wide package solutions to training. They offer consulting to the client’s company to offer better solutions for training needs.
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This company is a provider in strategic planning, design and implementation of open solutions, to support people in organizations. This provides the flexibility to implement personnel solutions using IT as the department sees fit.
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This federal agency offers flexible, comprehensive government-wide acquisition contracts that offer the client more control over their IT environment. Outsourcing these types of jobs save the user money and personnel.
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This company’s goal is bring the very finest coaching talents, technologies, and programs into the international business environment. By providing this service, this company helps the client to better train their staff.
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This is a management consulting firm which provides training, policy and procedure development and program management services directly to federal, state, and local housing agencies across the nation.
P/OM
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This company specializes in web-based development, operational systems, decision support or mobile applications. They use technology to help companies get more out of their information.
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This company concentrates on relational database, data warehousing and enterprise-wide systems design that results in cost saving and well-managed development or maintenance efforts.
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This company helps build an information infrastructure that is needed to compete in today’s global economy. For management, it makes integration easier and faster.
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This site is the leading source for product data management information containing vendor, product, and consultant information. This enables the management team to make quality decision about the methods integrated into the company.
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This company specializes in product data management and work flow solutions, product life cycle analysis, multi-media applications, standards compliance and legacy system integration. This site gives the management department quality information to make key decisions.
Marketing
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This is an association of companies that specializes in trade, industry, manufacturing, and import/export. They work together in this organization to get the most marketing for their expense.
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This company helps organizations leverage their know-how by enabling knowledge management through creativity enablement and innovation management.
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This company offers a service whereby they integrate a marketing plan with the management scheme of the company.
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This site is the leading provider of software applications and solutions to drive Enterprise Relationship Management (ERM). They market different types of decision-making applications.
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This company provides services ranging from problem diagnosis through program implementation to meet the marketing need of any company and saves money on outsourcing.
Non-business Major
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This organization’s objective is to advance health care research and instruction through the collection, development, organization, preservation and dissemination of the world's health sciences knowledge base. This provides a large knowledge base for anyone interested in medical careers.
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This site is the home page for the U.S. Geological Survey. They offer an up-to-date summary of data as it relates to the geologist.
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NIST strengthens the U.S. economy and improves the quality of life by working with industry to develop and apply technology, measurements, and standards. For both business and non-business majors, this site proves useful for data quality.
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This site provides on-line access to data, publications, products, programs, and other methods of data collection. They offer many opportunities for many types of majors.
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The goal is to provide useful information concerning the current topics in the commercial aviation system life cycle. This data is used by engineers, pilots, and other professionals in the airline industry.