Definition of Information System
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The document defines an information system as a combination of hardware, software, infrastructure, and trained personnel organized to facilitate planning, control, coordination, and decision making in an organization. It notes information systems have advantages like making work easier, allowing real-time updates, and improving organizational quality, but also have disadvantages such as costs, system breakdowns, lack of IT skills, privacy issues, and unemployment. The document provides examples of how information systems are used in daily life and business.
Definition of Information System
- 1. Definition Of Information System and Advantages and Disadvantages Presented by Lansey Wegner anak Chassing Kasan (2009745477) Presented For Encik Shamsul Kamil Bin Mohd Faker
- 2. Introduction Nowadays, society become dependent on information systems. Information systems has help many people in their daily life routine. Information system itself bring the meaning of business application in the computer that manage their operations, compete in the marketplace, accounts and manage human resources.
- 3. Definition Of Information System According BussinessDictionary.com information system is a combination of hardware, software, infrastructure and trained personnel organized to facilitate planning, control, coordination and decision making in an organization. Information system is a such as one in the opening scenario are combinations of hardware, software, and telecommunications networks that people build and use to collect, create an didtribute useful data especially in organizational settings . (Information Systems Today : Why is Matter? Second Edition).
- 4. Figure 1.0 An information system is a combination of five key elements : people, hardware, software, data and telecommunications networks. (Information Systems Today : Why is Matter? Second Edition)
- 5. Advantages Make people easily do their work Real time updating Improvement of quality care of organization Help the user to store large amount of information Has made possible for business to be open 24x7 all over the globe The creation of new and interesting jobs
- 6. DISADVANTAGES Cost System or network breakdown or shutdown Doesn’t have basic IT skills Privacy issues Unemployed
- 7. CONCLUSION Conclusion, information system is one new way in that can help us in this new era of technology. Besides that, it help us a lot in our daily life but it also have the disadvantages. But as user, we should know how to solve that problems. We must have the solution to put the information system bring more advantages for us.
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