Identify the Information Systems Used in a Specified
Organisation.
Marketing.
One of the main and first areas that use information systems is in marketing. Marketing will use
information systems to help find out where the businesses sales are increasing and decreasing. They
would also use the system to assess how a promotion or special sale went at a store before they
decide if they should do it at other branches. Marketing information systems can also be used to
analyse the product prices, profit/losses and rival competition.
Financial.
Financial information systems would be used by companies to help them with their expenditures
and costs. With financial systems there are two main purposes that it is used for which are financial
cost and investment returns. Financial systems are used to find any patens or trend in a company so
that it can be analysed to find out how much money the company has spent and to make sure that
the money is spent efficiently. Financial systems are also used to see if certain investments would be
a high or low risk so that the company will know if it would be worth investing money, this would
depend on the returns the company gets.
Human Resources (HR).
Information systems is important to human resource as it helps them with a large amount of analysis
that they need to do for their job. Human resources would use information systems for thing like
finding out how much staff they would need at certain times of the day depending on the busiest
time of day, it is also used to help find out if there are any skill shortages, training needs or staff
turnover.
Management Information System (MIS)
MIS is a computerized database of financial information that is organized and programmed to
produce regular reports on operation for every management department within a company. MIS is
mostly used to give feedback to managers about their performance. MIS will normally show actual
data against planed results and results from the year before allowing it to measure progress against
the company’s goals. MIS will get data from the company’s units and function, some of the data will
then be automatically collated by the computer-inked check-out counters, others are inputted in at
periodic intervals. Reports are preprogramed and run at curtain intervals or on demand while others
are obtained by using a built-in query languages. Any display functions that are built into the system
are used by managers to check on the status at desk-side computers connected to the MIS through
networks.
Features.
MIS is used as a discussion system where all input queries and response is predetermined, I would
be used to ask one question in a loop but for a different subject every time it is asked. This could be
used to list the top stores that have the most amount of profits for a certain time then compare
them to an earlier date.
Benefits.
MIS can be very beneficial as it is able to speed up the process when dealing with customers making
it so that the time required to serve the customer’s will be faster. MIS can also benefit an
organisation as it can improve the quality of internal and external communications, it does this by
being supported by an electronic data communication network system.
Organisation.
Marketing.
One of the main and first areas that use information systems is in marketing. Marketing will use
information systems to help find out where the businesses sales are increasing and decreasing. They
would also use the system to assess how a promotion or special sale went at a store before they
decide if they should do it at other branches. Marketing information systems can also be used to
analyse the product prices, profit/losses and rival competition.
Financial.
Financial information systems would be used by companies to help them with their expenditures
and costs. With financial systems there are two main purposes that it is used for which are financial
cost and investment returns. Financial systems are used to find any patens or trend in a company so
that it can be analysed to find out how much money the company has spent and to make sure that
the money is spent efficiently. Financial systems are also used to see if certain investments would be
a high or low risk so that the company will know if it would be worth investing money, this would
depend on the returns the company gets.
Human Resources (HR).
Information systems is important to human resource as it helps them with a large amount of analysis
that they need to do for their job. Human resources would use information systems for thing like
finding out how much staff they would need at certain times of the day depending on the busiest
time of day, it is also used to help find out if there are any skill shortages, training needs or staff
turnover.
Management Information System (MIS)
MIS is a computerized database of financial information that is organized and programmed to
produce regular reports on operation for every management department within a company. MIS is
mostly used to give feedback to managers about their performance. MIS will normally show actual
data against planed results and results from the year before allowing it to measure progress against
the company’s goals. MIS will get data from the company’s units and function, some of the data will
then be automatically collated by the computer-inked check-out counters, others are inputted in at
periodic intervals. Reports are preprogramed and run at curtain intervals or on demand while others
are obtained by using a built-in query languages. Any display functions that are built into the system
are used by managers to check on the status at desk-side computers connected to the MIS through
networks.
Features.
MIS is used as a discussion system where all input queries and response is predetermined, I would
be used to ask one question in a loop but for a different subject every time it is asked. This could be
used to list the top stores that have the most amount of profits for a certain time then compare
them to an earlier date.
Benefits.
MIS can be very beneficial as it is able to speed up the process when dealing with customers making
it so that the time required to serve the customer’s will be faster. MIS can also benefit an
organisation as it can improve the quality of internal and external communications, it does this by
being supported by an electronic data communication network system.
