...MIS Summary chapter 5 ‘’IT infrastructure and emerging technologies’’ -IT infrastructure: shared technology resources that provide the platform for firm’s specific information system applications. (Including investments) Service platform (Figure 5.1, page 196) 1. Computing platforms that connect employees customers and suppliers in an digital environment. 2. Telecommunication services (provide data, voice and video connectivity) 3. Data management services that store and manage corporate data 4. Application software services (that provide enterprise-wide capabilities) 5. Physical facilities management services that develop and manage physical installations 6. IT management services that plan and develop infrastructure, coordinate with business units for IT services, manage accounting and provide project management services 7. IT standard services that that provides information which system to be used 8. IT education services that provide training in how to use systems for employees 9. IT research and development services Evolution era’s IS (Figure 5.2!, page 198) 1. General purpose mainframe and minicomputer era (1959- present) =IBM mainframes run by professionals. Changed by minicomputers which was cheaper and decentralized computing. 2. Personal computer era (1981- now) =First real computer. Wintel PC became standard desktop. 3. Client server era (1983- now) =laptops (Clients) are networked to server computer that provides client computer with...
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...developing their information systems because the demand for furniture was increased. In the beginning a process oriented approach was utilized. Each separate application had its own data files. The applications automated the manual systems on which they were modeled. In an effort to improve its information systems. They then renovated its information systems, resulting in a company wide database and applications that work with this database. Then the primarily use was in the accounting and financial areas. All applications were built in-house, and when necessary, new information systems staffs were hired to support Pine Valley Furniture’s expanding information systems. I believe the company chose this option because it was the most convenient and easiest way to operate, train staff and keep the business organized and running smoothly. However the primary use being in accounting and financial areas is good, however also implementing a sales and production area would be ideal as well, in order to track and keep record of what pieces sell the most, the increases in demand and so on. Also they may have wanted charts and graphs as records for years of sales, when the down season is, if there is one, and they could also have used a program to keep closer track on employees such as hours, dedication, evaluations and so on in order to better accommodate the hard workers. B) Enterprise wide systems are a great option. Organizations invest in the enterprise system software from vendors...
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...TYPES OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS An information system is a collection of hardware, software, data, people and procedures that are designed to generate information that supports the day-to-day, short-range, and long-range activities of users in an organization. Information systems generally are classified into five categories: office information systems, transaction processing systems, management information systems, decision support systems, and expert systems. The following sections present each of these information systems. 1. Office Information Systems An office information system, or OIS (pronounced oh-eye-ess), is an information system that uses hardware, software and networks to enhance work flow and facilitate communications among employees. Win an office information system, also described as office automation; employees perform tasks electronically using computers and other electronic devices, instead of manually. With an office information system, for example, a registration department might post the class schedule on the Internet and e-mail students when the schedule is updated. In a manual system, the registration department would photocopy the schedule and mail it to each student’s house. An office information system supports a range of business office activities such as creating and distributing graphics and/or documents, sending messages, scheduling, and accounting. All levels of users from executive management to nonmanagement employees utilize...
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...Contents Information Systems Proposal Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2 Information Systems 4 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Objective… Explain the different types of information systems available to businesses. * Processing Payroll * Point-of-sale Terminal * Microsoft Office * Report of sales for individual customers * Electronic commerce To operate a successful business one must know and understand the information technology aspects, which enhances the daily operations of the business. Small businesses are at a disadvantage and must seek ways to expand and become viable. “Strategic Information Systems provide a competitive advantage by helping an organization implement its strategic goals and increase its performance and productivity” (R. Kelly Rainer Jr., Casey G. Cegielski, 2011). There are six reasons why information systems are so important for businesses today and they include: * Operational excellence - Businesses improve the efficiency of their operations in order to achieve higher profitability. * New products, services, and business models - Business models describe how a company produces, delivers, and sells a product or service to create wealth. * Customer and supplier intimacy - When businesses serve its customers well, the customers usually return and purchase more. This allows businesses to engage its suppliers, which enables the suppliers to provide vital input. * Improved decision making - Information system made it...
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...Proposal Retia Peyer University of Phoenix Introduction to computer application and systems BIS/220-LRBS George Griepp May 05, 2014 Table of Contents Introduction………………………………..……………………………………………3 Information Systems……………………………………………………………………3 Proposal….……………………………………………………………………………...4 Table 1….……………………………………………………………………………….5 References…………………………………………………………………………..…..6 Business Proposal Information systems vary according to their specific purpose. Generally, there are five types of information systems. Each system serves a specific task several systems overlap in their capacities. The different types of systems will be briefly explained along with how they will benefit the business we are about to open. The five types of information systems are as follows: 1) Office Information System also referred to as an OIS this system uses hardware (computers), software (programs) and networks (a server of to link all the computers to a common modem) to tie together many aspects of the office, such as using email, sending faxes, using electronic data interchange (EDI) to exchange data with other businesses or departments within the company (http://bisom.uncc.edu/courses /info 2130/Topics/istypes.htm). 2) Transaction Processing Systems also referred to as TPS this system uses data from day to day transactions and are usually used by clerical staff. Examples of this type of system could be useful for accounts payable, accounts receivable, and payroll departments...
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...Checkpoint: The System Development Life Cycle A system study needs to be performed on an accounting information system. There are four stages of the system development life cycle (SDLC) of a business information system. The cycles are; planning and investigation, analysis, design, and implementation, follow-up and maintenance. A broad view point needs to be used to perform a system study for planning and investigation. A mission, planning goals, and objectives needs to be placed. A team should be set up that will speak with the management continuously. This team can be outside the IT department for that broad view point. Also, management will need to appoint a steering committee to work with the study team. Problems may appear and the study team should do a crucial investigation of the system. Advising the steering committee of the findings will be done. After finding the source the committee will decide what is to be mended. Either, do nothing, do a further investigation, or execute a formal system analysis. The system analysis stage is organized to examine the system in detail. Goals need to be set, such as; general system goals, top management goals, and operating goals. General system objectives show benefits, decisions, access and flexibility to change. Top management goals provide managers with planning data to assist in creating important decisions for the future. Operating management goals provide specific managers with assistance in present decisions. System analysis also...
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...Information Systems for Management (1.5 credit) Dr. Preeti Khanna 1 Evaluation Criteria • • • • End Term Examination Quiz / Class Test Class Participation Group Activity : : : : 25 10 05 10 • Total : 50 2 Session 1: Learning Objectives • Explain how information management delivers value to an organization. • Demonstrate the relationship between data, information and knowledge. • Identify key management issues of information and the perspective of information System 3 Today’s business environment Changes & driven by 4 The Emerging Digital Economy • To get a market of 50 Million People Participating: • Radio took 38 years • TV took 13 years • Once it was open to the General Public, • The Internet made to the 50 million person audience mark in just 4 years!!! Source: http://www.ecommerce.gov/emerging.htm Why Now? • Globalisation: Connect – Customers, partners, suppliers – and competition • Transparency : Polices – Industry regulations, consumer pressure and competition driving openness • Service focus: Customer Value – Differentiation and shareholder value increasingly derived from service experience 6 Business Information Management (BIM) • The process of managing information as a strategic resource for improving organizational performance. • This process involves developing strategies and introducing systems and controls to improve information quality to deliver value. 7 Using Information to Support the Business ...
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...Information Systems Proposal BIS/220 July 7, 2014 Contents Types of Information System (IS)……………………………………..3 Benefits & Drawbacks…………………………………………………4 Image of Our Record Store…………………………………………….5 References……………………………………………………………..6 Types of Information Systems (IS) 1. Functional Area Information System * Supports the activities within individual areas of the business/ System to process time keeping. 2. Transactional Processing System * Processes transaction information /Point of Sale terminals for checking out customers. 3. Office Automation System * Keeps track of daily work actions/ Utilizing Excel to create spreadsheets of inventory. 4. Management Information System * Creates reports with summaries of daily transactions/Daily or weekly tracking of revenue and most popular items sale...
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...of Selecting Health Care Information System Health care organizations are trying to stay current with health care technology to provide high quality care, and lower health care cost(Matthews, 2000). Selecting an information system is complex and challenging because of the new technology and higher cost. When health care organizations implement an information system then the organization will become more efficient, and deliver effective health care. Implementing new information systems takes a team of individuals with different expertise to plan and manage the information system. Most health care organizations develop a team that has nurses, doctors, office personal, and IT specialist that worked together to keep information systems. Acquisition Process The process of selecting an information systems starts with selecting a project steering committee, and project manager. The project manager will plan, coordinate, organize, budget, and manage the process of selecting and implementing information systems(Wager, Lee, & Glaser, 2009). The next step is to define project objectives and scope of analysis. Once project goals are formulated the product manager is able guide the committees activities. Health care organization should investigate different EMR systems and schedule demonstrations before choosing an information system(Wager, Lee, & Glaser, 2009). Project managers will determine system requirements request information, explore other options, evaluate...
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...Information Systems Department XBIS 219 August 28, 2010 Every company has different departments and those departments are in charge of different tasks and employees. In order for the departments to do their job efficiently, employees need a software application to help them complete their tasks. This type of software makes employee's jobs easier and helps the company keep track of their success. Two different examples are the a human resource department and accounting department. The human resources is responsible for hiring new employees, also to establish effective policies and procedures. Human resources (HR) can benefit greatly from the use of iCIMS software. This software can do many tasks for the department. iCIMS is designed to help businesses make the hiring process more efficient by using software for screening and storing applicant information, enabling web-based job applications, tracking candidates, monitoring performance after recruitment, and managing post-employment processes. As stated by the iCIMS (2010) website, " iCIMS' Talent Platform streamlines the entire talent lifecycle in one easy-to-use recruitment and HR software application." The accounting department is those in which deal with money paid, received, borrowed, or owed in the company. Good software that this department can use is Accounting Information System, better known as AIS. According to Accounting Information Systems (2010), “The purpose of AIS is to accumulate data and provide decision...
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... 3 Information Systems Table 4 Information Systems Overview Summary 5 Proposal Keeping it Spinning Records will give a wide range of customer’s different types of music that they can purchase. Whether it is from the past, present, country, hip hop or opera, keeping it spinning records will touch every type of music lover. Not only will we be able to sell brand new products in our store, we will also give customers a chance to sell some of their unwanted music to us. The business will be a sort of recycling music business constantly having what the competitor does not. We will offer products online for customers that would like to download our music to their MP3’s or computer for a small price. This way we are cornering the market on all opportunities from face to face sales to our internet sales. If we want our business to be successful there are a few different types of information systems that will assist us in the following functional areas: * Create activity reports * Track credit card sales * Handle payroll processing * Assist with maintaining the record stores’ budget The information systems will help us make our business successful against our competitors as long as we stay true to our plan. Information Systems Table TYPE | FUNCTION | EXAMPLE | Management Information Systems | Produces reports summarized from transaction data | Drafts reports on total sales from each customer | Expert System | Mimics human...
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...System Adoption IT 205 May 08, 2014 In today’s organizations, there are many systems that are in place to not only help individuals perform their jobs, but also ensure the future growth of these systems. This paper will describe three of these systems; transaction processing systems, office information systems, and management information systems. Transaction processing systems, more commonly referred to as TPS, are information systems that capture and process data that has been generated during an organization’s day-to-day transactions. A transaction is a business activity such as a deposit, payment and order. Individuals in the clerical department perform activities associated with TPS, including recording business activity such as an employee’s timecard, confirming the action such as generating employee paychecks, and maintaining data, which involves adding new data, changing existing data, or removing unwanted data. The factors that lead to the adoption of this system are batch processing and OLTP, or online transaction processing. Batch processing is transaction data that has been collected over a period of time and all transactions are processed later as a group, such as calculating paychecks. With OLTP, computers process transactions as they are entered (Shelly, 1999). The second information system is OIS, or office information system. OIS is an information system that uses hardware, software and networks to enhance the work flow and to also facilitate the communication...
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...Information Systems Proposal Vinyls N’ Such Tyrone Bigsby Table of Contents: Summary and Outline Chapter One: Transaction Processing Systems Chapter Two: Office Support Systems Chapter Three: Management Information Systems Chapter Four: Decision Support Systems Chapter Five: Executive Support Systems Summary In this business proposal, I will describe five different types of information systems so that my partner has a better understanding of the information systems and what it does for our business. In this business, with it being retail, there are very important things to consider. For example, we must stick to a budget and I feel as if the decision support system will work as our “what-if” analysis of any changes in the budget. Also, we will need a checkout point-of-sale terminal and the transaction processing system will process transaction data from business events. The other three information systems I will cover are management support system, executive support system and office support system. 1) Chapter One: Transaction Processing Systems a) Function-processes transaction data from business events i) Examples ii) Pros-provides point-of-sale terminal iii) Cons-these types of terminals can crash 2) Chapter Two: Office Support Systems a) Function-supports daily work activities of groups and individuals i) Examples ii) Pros-provides structure iii) Cons-purchasing the software...
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...Axia/HCS 483 | Information System Briefing | November,2011 | Information System Briefing Selecting and acquiring information systems is important to this organization. Information systems are designed based on the organization’s needs, thus simplifying patient needs, departmental, and other information. Information systems should also accommodate other departments as well such as radiology, pharmacy, and other various branches of the hospital. An information system is, of course, an expensive technology but can greatly benefit the hospital. With information systems many systems have to be installed databases, storage, identification, and selection. Once it is up the organization still has to think about an offsite back up station with a firewall. It is to much for an organization or investors to take in, making it imperative that the organization receives the system designed to their needs. Selecting and Acquiring When selecting what is needed for the organization one has to look at many different variables. Does the organization have many branches, do they have different specialties, patients, billing, and other various staff. Communication between these is vital to making the information system work. The information also has to be user friendly and easy to obtain by staff. If any of the information is not easily obtainable it will make the organization run slow in all departments or fragment it. That means that patient information could be lost resulting in duplicate...
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...Information System Briefing Sonya Harmon HCS 483 01/16/2012 Information System Briefing Many Health Care Organizations are relying on information technology and has given the organization a competitive advantage. A lot of time and resources goes into the selection and acquisition process of a health information system that is right for a health care organization. Selecting and acquiring a health information system can be a way to improve the health care organization even though the process can be a tedious and difficult task. Selection and Acquisition Process The first step in selecting and acquiring an information system for a health organization is to gather as much information as possible and create a committee, the selection process consists of evaluating cost, how it benefits the organization, and getting adequate input from other senior leaders involved in the process. There are several decisions that have to be made in the selection process such as who will be in charge of the selection process, what practice will be used to select the health information system, and who will be a part of the process. The decision has to be made about the health information system products that are on the market, and finding a credible vendor that can complete the process. The acquisition process also involves careful planning, selecting, implementing, and evaluating. This process is known as systems development life cycle, each phase in this process has several functions...
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