SIM Bernard Dentor

WEEK 8 - 19/03/18 - 23/03/18 LECTURE - A video on five trends shaping the future of the Information System was shown. We learnt about business processes and routines on the collection and use of both organisational and personal data, operating procedures, precise rules on data storage, distribution and use so that there is no misuse of such data by any employee. We learnt that Information Technology and organisation influence each other in the areas of Technical - being social structure that processes resource from the environment to produce outputs  Behavioural - like rights,privileges, obligations and responsibilities balanced over a period of time through conflicts and its management.and solution. We learnt the five types of Minttzberg Organisational Structure. These structures are  Entrepreneurial Machine bureaucracy Divisionalised bureaucracy Professional bureaucracy Adhocracy It was exciting seminar. We learnt so much for future use. SEMINAR - ...

WEEK 7 LECTURES / 12/03/18 - 16/03/18 LECTURE - We watched a video on how to use Prezi tool for coursework presentation. We also looked at the outline of good presentation, such as Agenda, Structure (opening), Structure (body), Structure (summary), good slides, bad slides, animations, fonts, colour and background. Furthermore, we learnt planning such as purpose (why, what?), audience (who, where?), know your subject well, develop a scheme, a story, focus on the main point and concepts, and how to use template to present to do good presentation. We learnt how to always end the presentation with asking the audience if there are any questions they would like to ask. We should remember to engage the audience through eye contact, change of voice tone to emphasize an important point, and to thank each questioner and the audience in general. SEMINAR - we are thought how to use 'Scenario Summary' in Excel to analyse data. We learnt how to use Excel to rename cells, use formula to...

WEEK 6 -  05/03/18 - 09/03/18 LECTURE - TOPIC: CLOUD COMPUTING & RELATIONAL DATABASES - We reviewed week five lectures and then moved on to week 6 lecture by discussing utility computing. We learnt subscription-based renting services. Organisations rent resources such processing, data, storage networking from external provider on as-needed bases for weekly or monthly payment. We also looked at Scalability benefits, which is thew ability to adapts to demands Rent time/place on physical resources No initial cost - there is no prior charge for subscribing. Organisations only pay per use. The moment one presses the user button, charge starts till the stop/finish button is pressed to end the activity. We learnt how to use web-services model to support and manage Information System needs. Some  benefits of using web services model , such as AAS as a concept: DBaas, Daas, Maas, Baas, Caas are that the services are paid for on a subscription basis, installation and maintena...

WEEK 5 LECTURE - The lectures started with ArGIS videos, which is about using information systems to gather and map information geographically. Like Google Map, ArGIS information map can be accessed and used by organisations and institutions, such as the emergency services. The lectures also focused on the crimes and threats facing the information system and the security controls that can be used to prevent or curtail these cyber crimes and threats that are associated to information systems. To prevent information systems crimes from happening, employees are made to sign private and confidentiality agreements. No one is allowed to extract any sensitive organisational data from the company databases for personal use. Unauthorised people are not allowed to access the company information systems whatsoever. Threats such as viruses, namely worms, and Trojans are curtailed or prevented by using anti-virus software. These preventative measures keep organisational or personal computers sa...