Presented by Lansey Wegner anak Chassing Kasan

(2009745477)

Presented For Encik Shamsul Kamil Bin Mohd Faker

IMS 552 Information System

Management

Definition Of Information System and Advantages and

Disadvantages

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.

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).

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)

Advantages

Make people easily do their workReal time updatingImprovement of quality care of organizationHelp the user to store large amount of

informationHas made possible for business to be open

24x7 all over the globeThe creation of new and interesting jobs

DISADVANTAGES

CostSystem or network breakdown or

shutdownDoesn’t have basic IT skillsPrivacy issuesUnemployed

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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