INF30018: INFORMATION SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENT 01 -UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF AN INFORMATION SYSTEMS DUE DATE - 30TH AUGUST 2020 WIEGHTING - 25% TUTOR- Maryamalsadat Shamekhi NAME -VINYA MASAKORALA STUDENT ID- 102266820
ASSIGNMENT 01 INF30018 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Information system is an organized combination of people , business processes and information technology for collecting, transmitting, storing and processing data to deliver information with an aim to accomplish a common objective , these information systems brings vast benefits to a business and its essential to carry out business operations and management activities. Most the industries including small organizations to large powerful organizations such as reserve banks, central /local government authorities now depend upon information systems to manage their information's and regulate data in order to add value to business. The above report prepared underline the importance of information systems and their functions and the interconnectedness among them . A design solution architecture prepared in the report illustrate how business functions and information systems functions together in a generic business to performs its tasks and detailed discussion of roles need in an information system is given lastly to demonstrate how IS professionals work hard to deliver information capability in a business. This report basically describes about the Information system triangle where people, processes and Technology interact together in realizing business objectives and how IS professionals in a business ensure the balance between them for the good sake of the people and business. 1
ASSIGNMENT 01 INF30018 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 1.0 TYPES OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND THEIR SUPPORT FOR THE BUSINESS OPERATIONS 4 MAIN TYPES OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS & FUNCTIONS 4 BUSINESS CAPABILITIES 5 2.0 DESIGN SOLUTION OF ARHITECTURE 8 3.0 ROLES NECESSARY TO SUPPORT THE DELIVERY OF IS CAPABILITIES 9 CONCLUSION 12 REFERENCES 13 2