MIS 301 Chapter 14 Vocabulary

Ensuring that an organization’s systems operate within required legal constraints, and industry and organizational obligations.

A programming language, initially developed by Sun Microsystems, designed to provide true platform independence (“write once, run anywhere”) for application developers.

Developing work continually and iteratively, with a goal of more frequent product rollouts and constant improvement across smaller components of the larger project.

A process-improvement approach (useful for but not limited to software engineering projects) that can assist in assessing the maturity, quality, and development of certain organizational business processes, and suggest steps for their improvement.

Sometimes referred to as database software; software for creating, maintaining, and manipulating data.

Systems that use data created by other systems to provide reporting and analysis for organizational decision-making.

Languages where each line of written code is converted for execution at run-time. Most scripting languages are interpreted languages. Many programmers also write Java applications to be interpreted by the Java Virtual Machine.

Products and services that allow for the development and integration of software products and other complementary goods.

Applications that address the needs of multiple users throughout an organization or work group.

Small pieces of code that are accessed via the application server, and permit interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network.