What you’ll learn to do: describe the ways in which businesses can share information via networks, including cloud computing

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is present to hear it fall, does it make a sound?  Likewise, if data is collected by an organization and no one knows it exists, is it really there? Well, of course the data is there, but how much is it worth if it can’t be shared? What if marketing collects data about consumer behavior, but there is no way to share that data with the research and development department that controls new product development? In this section you will learn how organizations share data using networks and cloud computing.

LEARNING ACTIVITIES

The learning activities for this section include:

• Reading: Computer Networks and Cloud Computing
• Self Check: Information in Networks

Take time to review and reflect on this activity in order to improve your performance on the assessment for this section.