-- minor and control industrial process.
Examples: Petroleum refining, power
generation, steel producing
systems.
- Enterprise collaboration systems.
-- support team, workgroup, and enterprise
communications and collaboration.
Examples: email, chat, video
conferencing groupware
systems.
2.Management support systems:
- Management information systems
-- provide information in the form of pre
specified reports and displays to support
business decision making.
Examples: Sales analysis,
production performance,
cost trend reporting systems.
- Decision support systems
-- provide interactive ad hoc support for the
decision making processes of managers
and other business professionals.
Examples: product pricing,
profitability forecasting,
risk analysis.
The IS (Information System) Functions:
A major functional area of business equally as important to business success, as the function of:
- accounting,
- finance,
- operations management,
- marketing,
- human resource management.
An important contributor to:
- operational efficiency,
- employee productivity,
- customer service and satisfaction.
A major source of information and support needed to promote effective decision making by managers and business professionals.
A vital ingredient in developing competitive products and services that give an organization a strategic advantage in the global market place.
Foundation Concepts: The Components Of Information Systems:
i.Technology:
the computer network are systems of information processing component that use a variety of: hardware, software, data management, and telecommunication network technologies.
ii.Applications:
the electronic business and commerce applications involve interconnected business information systems.
iii.Development:
that developing ways to use information technology in business includes designing the basic components of information system.
Foundation of Information system
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