Chapter 1 Flashcards
Digital Transformation:
the business strategy that leverages IT to improve employee, customer, and business partner relationships
IT career oppurtunities
Programmers, business analyst, system analyst, designers
Overview of Computer Based Information Systems
Data, information, knowledge, IT infrastructure
Computer based information systems
hard ware, software, data bass, networks, procedures, people
Capabilities of Information Systems
- perform high speed high volume numerical outputs
- provide accurate communication and collaboration within and amongst organizations
- store huge amount of information in an easy to access small space
Enterprise Resource Planning System
-Accounting IS
- Finance Is
-Operations management is
- marketing IS
- HUMAN RESOURCES IS
Transaction Processing system
It services
It personnel
It components
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems
provide communication among functional area ISs through an intergrated database
Transaction Processing Systems (TPS)
support the monitoring, collection, storage, and processing of data from the organizations day to day operations for basic busines transactions
Interorganizational Information Systems (IOS)
support many interorganizational operations
- supply chain management sytems
Functional area IS
supports activities within specific functional area
Supply chain management system
manages flow of products, services and information among organizations
How does It impact organizations
-It reduces the # of middle managers
- It changes managers
- It impacts entire industries
Importance of Information Systems to Society
-affects quality of life
-It impacts health care
- Emergence of cognitive computing
