it management chapter 7
Building an application in a what environment can offer greater benefits, and sometimes greater risks, compared to a traditional environment?
Web-based
Cost-benefit analysis
determines how long it takes an information system to pay for itself through reduced costs and increased benefits?
(true ir false)
False
Priscilla is providing the junior analysts in her firm with some real-world illustrations to explain some of the recommendations that they must be prepared to make to clients, based on what they have studied in their coursework, in order to solidity their understanding.
Which is a reason why Priscilla would offer in-house software development?
The client has a number of very distinctive security requirements.
what determines how long it takes an information system to spend for itself through reduced costs and increased benefits?
Payback analysis
what is a software distribution model in which a cloud provider hosts applications and makes them available to end users over the internet?
Software as a service (SaaS)
Onshoring is the transfer of information systems development, operation, or maintenance to an outside
firm that provides these services, for a fee, on a temporary or long-term basis.
(true or false?)
false
In a traditional systems development environment, security issues usually are less complex than with web-based systems, because the system operates on a private company network, rather than the Internet.
(true or false?)
true
The main reason for offshore outsourcing is to?
lower bottom-line costs
When companies acquire
Web-based software as a(n)
what ?they can limit in-house involvement to a minimum.
service
in context of in house software development options the choice between developing versus purchasing software often is called a what decision?
build or buy decision.