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ADM1370 Module 1
Web 2.0
Question | Answer |
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Characteristics of Web 2.0 (4points) | -Tap into users -Relies of user data/content -Lightweight programming allows ease of being a web site developer -Quick application changes to meet needs |
What are Mashups? | A web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool |
What are some of the benefits of using Mashups in organizations? | Simplicity, Usability, and ease of access. |
Why are mashups referred to as a disruptive technology for businesses? | Business users with little technical ability will be able to create their own mashups and assemble them in dashboards. This will introduce security and privacy challenges for the IT industry |
Web harvesting | The transformation of unstructured Web content into structured data that can be stored and analyzed |
What is an API? Definition and 2points. | An API (application programming interface) is an abstraction that allows interactions used by software |
What is Abstraction? | Abstraction takes out/hide/remove characteristic to reduce it down to the essentials. Takes out unwanted details |
How do you access an API? | By typing down an URL, inside the URL are parameters, typically followed after the “?” |
Types of Mashups | Presentation mashups: Enhances user interface Process mashups:inter-process communication and message queues. Data mashups: Integrated at data level |
Disruptor | Anything that introduces a significant change in industries, disrupting normal business operations |
Enterprise system | Single software system that integrates key business process of entire firm, enabling seamless information flow. Focuses on the internal process |
Enterprise 2.0 | Technology and business practices freeing workforce from communication and productivity tool constraints such as email. It is also a web of interconnected applications/services and devices |
Five forces model | (center) rivalry among existing competitors -buyer power -supplier power -threat of new entrant -threat of substitutes |
Digitization | Replacement of physical tasks by digital means Eg. Facebook = social digitization |
Impact of IT | -Internet growth and convergence -Flattened and decentralized business enterprise -Growth of globally connected economy (world market competition) -Growth of knowledge/information based economies (Emergence of digital firm) |
Flatteners of the world | 1.Fall of berlin wall 2.Netscape browser 3.World flow software 4.Open sourcing 5.Outsourcing (Talent/low cost) 6.Offshoring (china factories) 7.Supply chaining (collaboration of suppliers, retailers, and customers) 8.Insourcing 9.Informing 10. |
Mashup composition | - API content providers (content being mashed) - Mashup site (host) - Client’s web browser (use sees graphically) |
Enterprise social network | Social network owned and operated by one enterprise, members are usually employees |
Digital goods (and costs) | Goods that can be delivered over a digital network Insignificant marginal costs, lower delivery costs |
Business social network | Social network owned and operated by one enterprise, members are usually employees |
Social marketplace | Online community using social networking power to introduce, buy, sell products, services, and resources |
Why is the world flattening? | Time and space used to be barriers, not anymore |
IT impact on oganization/behaviour | -broadens distribution of timely information -increases speed of decision-making -empowers lower-level employees -increases management span of control -flattens organizations |
Social Network | Place where people create their own place and share (ideas, pictures, blogs, videos etc...) |
What is a web API? | A web API is a set of Hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request messages along with a definition of the structure of response messages. |