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MIS - Lect 1

This document provides an overview of information systems. It defines information systems as combinations of hardware, software, and networks that collect, process, store, and disseminate data to support decision making in organizations. The key components of information systems are identified as technology (hardware and software), data, and management (people and processes). The document then traces the evolution of information systems from the mainframe era to personal computers to client-server systems to the world wide web and web 2.0. It concludes by discussing how information systems can provide competitive advantages and questions what the dot-com bust was.

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MIS - Lect 1

This document provides an overview of information systems. It defines information systems as combinations of hardware, software, and networks that collect, process, store, and disseminate data to support decision making in organizations. The key components of information systems are identified as technology (hardware and software), data, and management (people and processes). The document then traces the evolution of information systems from the mainframe era to personal computers to client-server systems to the world wide web and web 2.0. It concludes by discussing how information systems can provide competitive advantages and questions what the dot-com bust was.

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Management

Information
Systems
Lecture 1
Amad-Ur-Rehman
 Students of Business are required to take a course in ”Information
Introduction Systems”. Let’s look at what this term means.
 “Information systems (IS) is the study of complementary networks
of hardware and software that people and organizations use to
collect, filter, process, create, and distribute data.”
 “Information systems are combinations of hardware, software,
and telecommunications networks that people build and use to
Definition collect, create, and distribute useful data, typically in
organizational settings.”
 “Information systems are interrelated components working
together to collect, process, store, and disseminate information to
support decision making, coordination, control, analysis, and
visualization in an organization.”
 Technology
 Hardware
 Software

Components  Data
 Management
 People
 Process
 “Information systems hardware is the part of an information
Hardware system you can touch – the physical components of the
technology.”
 “Software is a set of instructions that tells the hardware what to
do. Software is not tangible – it cannot be touched.”
 There are two types of software
Software  Operating System Software
 Microsoft Windows
 Application Software
 Microsoft Excel
 “Data is a collection of facts, such as numbers, words,
measurements, observations or just descriptions of things.”
 “The quantities, characters, or symbols on which operations are
Data performed by a computer, which may be stored and transmitted in
the form of electrical signals and recorded on magnetic, optical, or
mechanical recording media.”
 For example, your street address, the city you live in, and your
Data phone number are all pieces of data.
Continued…  What is Database?
 People involved in Information Systems are
 Front-line help desk workers
People 

System Analysts
Programmers
 CIO, CTO, CEO
 “The last component of information systems is process. A process
is a series of steps undertaken to achieve a desired outcome or
goal.”
Process  Information systems are becoming more and more integrated
with organizational processes, bringing more productivity and
better control to those processes.
Role of
 Moving forward from components to looking at how Information
Inofrmation Systems have played and are playing their role in modern world.
Systems
The  From the late 1950s through the 1960s, computers were seen as a
way to more efficiently do calculations.
Mainframe Era
 In 1975, the first microcomputer was announced on the cover
of Popular Mechanics: the Altair 8800.
Personal  Apple Computers
Computers  IBM Computers
 Microsoft
 In the mid-1980s, businesses began to see the need to connect
their computers together as a way to collaborate and share
resources.
 What is LAN, MAN and WAN.
Client-Server
 Software companies began developing applications that allowed
multiple users to access the same data at the same time.
 What is SAP.
 In 1991, the National Science Foundation, which governed how
the Internet was used, lifted restrictions on its commercial use.
 The world became truly “wired” heading into the new millennium,
ushering in the era of globalization.
World Wide  As it became more expected for companies to be connected to the
Web Internet, the digital world also became a more dangerous place.
 Amazon and E-bay.
 Security and Privacy breaches.
 Web 2.0 refers to websites that emphasize user-generated
content.
 Websites became interactive
 Web 2.0 is exemplified by blogging, social networking, and
interactive comments being available on many websites.
Web 2.0  Some industries, such as bookstores, found themselves relegated
to a niche status. Others, such as video rental chains and travel
agencies, simply began going out of business as they were
replaced by online technologies. This process of technology
replacing a middleman in a transaction is called
disintermediation.
 Tablets and Smartphones.
 PC will still play main role but not just how customers will
Post-Pc World communicate with businesses.
 Cloud Computing.
Table
 Can Information Systems Bring Competitive Advantage?

Assignment  What was Dot-Com bust?

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