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Relationship Between A PMS and PMIS: Management Information Systems Plan Execute Project Management

A Project Management Information System (PMIS) manages project information and helps plan, execute, and close projects. PMIS systems vary depending on organizational needs. A PMIS manages all project stakeholders, while a Project Management System (PMS) can be part of or separate from a PMIS. A Management Information System (MIS) provides information to effectively manage organizations and is a subset of internal business controls that uses people, documents, technologies, and procedures to solve problems. MIS applications analyze and support human decision making.

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Relationship Between A PMS and PMIS: Management Information Systems Plan Execute Project Management

A Project Management Information System (PMIS) manages project information and helps plan, execute, and close projects. PMIS systems vary depending on organizational needs. A PMIS manages all project stakeholders, while a Project Management System (PMS) can be part of or separate from a PMIS. A Management Information System (MIS) provides information to effectively manage organizations and is a subset of internal business controls that uses people, documents, technologies, and procedures to solve problems. MIS applications analyze and support human decision making.

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PMIS

A Project Management Information System (PMIS) is a part of Management Information


Systems (MIS) and manage information of a project centric organization. These electronic systems
"help [to] plan, execute, and close project management goals."[1] PMIS systems differ in scope, design
and features depending upon an organisation's operational requirements.

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A Project Management System(PM) could be a part of a PMIS or sometimes an external tool beside
project management information system. What a PMIS does is to manage all stakeholders in a project
such as Project Owner, Client, Contractors, Sub-Contractors, Company persons, Workers, Managers
and etc.[1]

A management information system (MIS) is a system or process that provides information needed


to manage organizations effectively [1]. Management information systems are regarded to be a subset
of the overall internal controls procedures in a business, which cover the application of people,
documents, technologies, and procedures used by management accountants to solve business
problems such as costing a product,service or a business-wide strategy. Management information
systems are distinct from regular information systems in that they are used to analyze other
information systems applied in operational activities in the organization.[2] Academically, the term is
commonly used to refer to the group of information management methods tied to the automation or
support of human decision making, e.g. Decision Support Systems, Expert systems, and Executive
information systems.[2]

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1 Overview

2 See also

3 Reference

4 External

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[edit]Overview

At the start, works in businesses and other organizations, internal reporting was made manually and
only periodically, as a by-product of the accounting system and with some additional statistic(s), and
gave limited and delayed information on management performance. Previously, data had to be
separated individually by the people as per the requirement and necessity of the organization. Later,
data was distinguished from information, and so instead of the collection of mass of data, important
and to the point data that is needed by the organization was stored.

Early on, business computers were mostly used for relatively simple operations such as tracking sales
or payroll data, often without much detail. Over time these applications became more complex and
began to store increasing amounts of information while also interlinking with
previously separate information systems. As more and more data was stored and linked man began
to analyze this information into further detail, creating entire management reports from the raw, stored
data. The term "MIS" arose to describe these kinds of applications, which were developed to provide
managers with information about sales, inventories, and other data that would help in managing the
enterprise. Today, the term is used broadly in a number of contexts and includes (but is not limited
to): decision support systems, resource and people management applications, Enterprise Resource
Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship
Management (CRM), project management and database retrieval applications.

An 'MIS' is a planned system of the collecting, processing, storing and disseminating data in the form
of information needed to carry out the functions of management. In a way it is a documented report of
the activities that were planned and executed. According to Philip Kotler "A marketing information
system consists of people, equipment, and procedures to gather, sort, analyze, evaluate, and
distribute needed, timely, and accurate information to marketing decision makers." [3]

The terms MIS and information system are often confused. Information systems include systems that
are not intended for decision making. The area of study called MIS is sometimes referred to, in a
restrictive sense, as information technology management. That area of study should not be confused
with computer science. IT service management is a practitioner-focused discipline. MIS has also
some differences with ERP which incorporates elements that are not necessarily focused on decision
support.

Any successful MIS must support a businesses Five Year Plan or its equivalent. It must provide for
reports based up performance analysis in areas critical to that plan, with feedback loops that allow for
titivation of every aspect of the business, including recruitment and training regimens. In effect, MIS
must not only indicate how things are going, but why they are not going as well as planned where that
is the case. These reports would include performance relative to cost centers and projects that drive
profit or loss, and do so in such a way that identifies individual accountability, and in virtual real-time.

Professor Allen S. Lee states that "...research in the information systems field examines more than
the technological system, or just the social system, or even the two side by side; in addition, it
investigates the phenomena that emerge when the two interact." [4].

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