Management Information Systems: Managing The Digital Firm (16th Edition)
Management Information Systems: Managing The Digital Firm (16th Edition)
16th Edition
ISBN: 9780135191798
Author: Kenneth C. Laudon, Jane P. Laudon
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 15, Problem 4RQ

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Technical issues facing global systems

  • Hardware, global software, and telecommunications are the main technical issues facing global systems.
  • Hardware issues arise because the firm needs to standardize the computer hardware platform when there is so much variation from operating unit to operating unit and country to country...

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Technologies for developing global systems

  • The choice for developing a global system is to provide a proprietary architecture or an open systems technology.
  • Global networks are extremely difficult to build and operate...

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