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Components of The Management Information System: Week.5

The document discusses components of the management information system and IT infrastructure. It covers: 1. The evolution of IT infrastructure from 1930 to 2007 including the electronic accounting machine era, general-purpose mainframe era, personal computer era, client/server era, and enterprise internet computing era. 2. Key components of IT infrastructure including computing platforms, telecommunication services, data management services, application software services, physical facilities management services, and IT management services. 3. Factors a firm should consider when deciding how much to invest in IT infrastructure such as integrating legacy systems, providing consulting services, and implementing relevant business changes.

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Components of The Management Information System: Week.5

The document discusses components of the management information system and IT infrastructure. It covers: 1. The evolution of IT infrastructure from 1930 to 2007 including the electronic accounting machine era, general-purpose mainframe era, personal computer era, client/server era, and enterprise internet computing era. 2. Key components of IT infrastructure including computing platforms, telecommunication services, data management services, application software services, physical facilities management services, and IT management services. 3. Factors a firm should consider when deciding how much to invest in IT infrastructure such as integrating legacy systems, providing consulting services, and implementing relevant business changes.

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Week.

5:
Components of the Management
Information System
Learning Outcomes

• Understand Corporate Networks

• Learn the evolution of IT infrastructure

• Analyse the IT infrastructure EcoSystem

• Relate IT infrastructure to Business Competencies

• Identify the drivers of evolution of IT infrastructure

• Deciding how much should a firm invest in IT


infrastructure.

Armstrong / MIS / Week.5


What is networking
A computer network is a telecommunication network
that allows computers to transfer and exchange data.

IT Infrastructure
1. Computing Platforms providing computing services.
2. Telecommunication Services
3. Data Management services
4. Application software services
5. Physical facilities management services
6. IT Management, standard services, education, and research
and development.
Components of a Simple Computer Network

A network switch is a hardware device that centralizes


communications among multiple connected devices in
one LAN. This happens through inspecting incoming
messages as they received and directing them to a
specific communication port.

Illustrated here is a very simple computer network, consisting of computers, a network


operating system residing on a dedicated server computer, cable (wiring) connecting the
devices, network interface cards (NIC), switches, and a router.
Corporate Network Infrastructure
Evolution of IT infrastructure:
1930 to 2007
Hardware Networks Software
Electronic General-purpose • 1958 IBM first mainframes
accounting machine mainframe and introduced, eventually used to
era: 1930-1950 minicomputer: support thousands of online remote
Specialized machines 1958 to present terminals.
sorting computer Specialized machines • 1965 less expensive DEC
cards, accumulating sorting computer minicomputers introduced,
totals, printing reports cards, accumulating allowing decentralized
totals, printing reports
computing.
Eras in IT Infrastructure Evolution
PCs – Client / Server – Enterprise Integration

• Personal computer era: 1981 to present


• 1981 Introduction of IBM PC

• Proliferation in 80s, 90s resulted in growth of personal software

• Client/server Era: 1983 to present


• Desktop clients networked to servers, with processing work split between clients and servers
• Network may be two-tiered or multitiered (N-tiered)
• Various types of servers (network, application, Web)

• Enterprise Internet computing era: 1992 to present


• Move toward integrating disparate networks, applications using Internet standards and enterprise
applications
PCs – Client / Server – Enterprise Integration

Personal computer era: 1981 to present


• 1981 Introduction of IBM PC.
• Proliferation in 80s, 90s resulted in growth of personal
software.

Client/server Era: 1983 to present


• Desktop clients networked to servers, with
processing work split between clients and servers.
• Network may be two-tiered or multitiered (N-
tiered).
• Various types of servers (network, application,
Web).
Enterprise Internet computing era: 1992 to present
Move toward integrating disparate networks, applications using Internet standards and enterprise
applications
Enterprise Computing
Infrastructure Components
• Networking and telecommunications equipment and services

• Enterprise and other IT software applications

• Computer hardware platforms

• Consulting services and system integrators

• Operating system platforms

• Database management and storage

• Internet platforms
Cloud (i.e. internet) Computing means storing and
accessing data and programs over the internet instead of a
computer hard drive.

Cloud Computing does not require a


hardware of server in residence. All data are
exchanged and synced between the
home/office network over the internet.

Cloud Computing is used by companies through using Software


as a service where a business can use an application over the
internet and store data accordingly (ex. Google Apps, adobe , Google
Drive, Apple iCloud etc)
overlap with, and relate to, the firm's general networking infrastructure and hardware and software
platforms. Internet-related infrastructure includes the hardware, software and services to maintain
corporate Web sites, intranets, and extranets, including Web hosting services and Web software
application development tools.
include client machines and server
include SAP, Oracle, machines, as well as modern
and PeopleSoft, mainframes produced by IBM. 
and middleware soft
ware that are used to
link a firm's existing
application systems. Operating
systems are
Integrating a software that
firm's legacy manage the
systems with new resources and
technology and activities of the
infrastructure and computer and
providing expertise in act as an
implementing new interface for
infrastructure along the user.
with relevant changes
include SAP, Oracle, and
in business
processes, training, PeopleSoft,
and software and middleware software
integration. that are used to link a
firm's existing application
include Windows server operating systems, Novell, Linux, and UNIX. systems.
Nearly all LAN and many wide area networks (WANs) use the TCP/IP
standards for networking.
Firm, Infrastructure & Competencies
How Dollar Rent a Car Uses Web Services?

Dollar Rent A Car uses Web services to provide a standard intermediate layer of software to “talk”
to other companies’ information systems. Dollar Rent A Car can use this set of Web services to link
to other companies’ information systems without having to build a separate link to each firm’s
systems.
How much should your firm spend on IT
infrastructure?

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