INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION

SYSTEM

 The capabilities, developments and achievements of

human beings depend on their mind. Our mind gives us
immense(Huge) power or advantage, by using
information as the raw material. Thus the well-being and
success of any individual, enterprise or an economy is
closely related to their ability. A project can accomplish
significant development in its performance by ensuring
that its managers are provided with appropriate
information required by them for performing their work.
Management Information System deals with
understanding the ways and means of doing this
effectively. It includes understanding two wide areas:
1. •One is concerned with the question of determining the
nature of information required by the managers in an
organization and how organization effectiveness can be
improved by better information support.
2. •Second concern of BIS is developing ways of making
the required information available effectively and
economically. It requires understanding of information
technology.
DEFINING BUSINESS INFORMATION
SYSTEM

 Information systems contain information about

significant people, places, and things within the
organization or in the environment surrounding it. By
information we mean data that have been shaped into
a form that is meaningful and useful to human
beings. Data, in contrast, are streams of raw facts
representing events occurring in organizations or the
physical environment before they have been
organized and arranged into a form that people can
understand and use.
BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSTEM
DEFINITIONS.

 Business Information System is mostly referred to as

BIS which relates itself as collection of facilities and
processes in an organization that provides managers
the information used by them. BIS is defined by
different Authors in different ways, following are
some definitions.
 Jayant K. Oke
 An integrated system which transforms data (input) into reports
(output) for facilitating decision-making through processing
using various components of the information system for
example Hardware, Software, Database, Procedures, and
personnel.
 Kelly
 A combination of human and computer based resources that
result in collection, storage, retrieval, communication and use of
data for the purpose of efficient management of operations and
for business planning.
 Krober Watson

 An organized set of processes that provides information to

managers to support the operation and decision making within
an organization.
MIS/BIS
 MIS stands for Management information system.
 BIS stands for Business information system.
 IMS stands for information management and system.
 Management Information Systems (BIS), referred to as
Information Management and Systems (IMS), is the discipline
covering the application of people, technologies, and
procedures collectively called information systems, to solving
business problems.
 “‘MIS'. Is a set of systems that helps the management at
different stages to take better decision by providing important
information to the managers.
 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.