A firm that must invest in new information systems capabilities in order to comply with legislation can be said to be investing to achieve which business objective?

A. systems that employ Unix.

B. electronic spreadsheets used on a PC.

C. new core systems.

D. traditional mainframe-based business information systems.

A. input.

B. raw data.

C. meaningful information.

D. feedback.

A. cloud computing.

B. autonomic computing.

C. virtualization.

D. multicore processing.

A. Captures raw data from organization or external environment

B. Converts raw data into meaningful form

C. Transfers processed information to people or activities that use it

D. Output returned to appropriate members of organization to help evaluate or correct input stage

A. creating a new product

B. estimating the effect of changing costs of supply materials

C. calculating the best trucking routes for product delivery

D. granting credit to a customer

A. green computing.

B. virtualization.

C. Unix.

D. quantum computing.

A. operational

B. end-user

C. middle management

D. senior management