Kenneth C. Laudon,Jane P. Laudon Management Information System 12th Edition pdf

network economics  

Model of strategic systems at the industry level

based on the concept of a network where adding another

participant entails zero marginal costs but can create much larger

marginal gains. 

network interface card (NIC)  

Expansion card inserted into a

computer to enable it to connect to a network. 

network operating system (NOS)  

Special software that routes and

manages communications on the network and coordinates

network resources.

networking and telecommunications technology  

Physical devices

and software that link various computer hardware components

and transfer data from one physical location to another.

neural network  

Hardware or software that attempts to emulate the

processing patterns of the biological brain.

nonobvious relationship awareness (NORA)  

Technology that can

find obscure hidden connections between people or other entities

by analyzing information from many different sources to

correlate relationships.

normalization  

The process of creating small stable data structures

from complex groups of data when designing a relational

database.

object  

Software building block that combines data and the procedures

acting on the data.