Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm (15th Edition)
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm (15th Edition)
15th Edition
ISBN: 9780134639710
Author: Kenneth C. Laudon, Jane P. Laudon
Publisher: PEARSON
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An Information System (IS) is the combination of hardware, communication network, people, software, and data resources that collects, manipulates, and disseminates information to provide feedback to address the objective. For organizations and businesses…
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Total Cost of Ownership (TCO):

  • TCO is defined as the estimated original cost of owning particular technology.
  • It is performed to analyze the IT infrastructure.
  • It is used for predicting the cost of specific technology implementations.
  • The management includes the components like hardware, software, maintenance, downtime, training, installing, supporting, acquisition and many such.
  • The TCO analysis is used for improving the efficiency and productivity of the management.

Components of total cost of components:

  • Hardware cost
    • It includes the total cost of purchasing different types of hardware like monitor.
  • Software cost
    • It includes the cost of purchasing the software license for users...

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