Use Information Systems 2.1 © 2010 by Prentice Hall Management Information Systems Chapter 2 Global E-Business: How Businesses Use Information Systems LEARNING OBJECTIVES • Define and describe business processes and their relationship to information systems. • Evaluate the role played by systems serving the various levels of management in a business and their relationship to each other. • Explain how enterprise applications, collaboration and communication systems, and intranets improve
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Interoperability Merge PACS™ I Merge Cardio™ I Merge Hemo™ | iConnect® Access I iConnect Enterprise Archive St. Mary’s Hospital | Athens, GA Long-Standing Partner CUSTOMER PROFILE • St. Mary’s Hospital, located in Athens, GA, is a non-profit Catholic system whose mission is to be a compassionate healing presence in their community • St. Mary’s is a 199-bed facility that performs about 100,000 imaging procedures per year CUSTOMER CHALLENGES • Improve critical results delivery across the
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DEFINITION OF MYOB (Mind Your Own Business) MYOB was founded in the late 1980s by Christopher Lee and a team of developers at Teleware, Inc., who developed accounting software. Teleware was purchased by Best Software, Inc. (now part of Sage) in 1993. Data-Tech Software was the Australia republished of the MYOB products and, in 1997 entered into an agreement with Best Software to buy the company (renamed MYOB, Inc.) and bought the intellectual property rights to the software. In 1999, Data-Tech
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sales increased from $67.34 billion to $244.52 billion; while its net income also rose from %2.33 billion to $8.04 billion. In fact, Wal-Mart grew stably without stagnancies. In terms of physical resources, Wal-Mart developed its computerized inventory system;
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Introduction of Information System An information system is a software that helps user to organize and analyze data. This makes it possible to answer questions and solve problems relevant to the mission of an organization. Many organizations work with large amounts of data. Data are the basic values or facts and are organized in a database. Many people think of data as synonymous with information; however information actually consists of data that has been organized to help answer questions to
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months Oracle -‐ PeopleSo8 Takeover 3 Oracle • Founded in 1977 by Larry Ellison (CEO) • One of largest developers of “Database Management Systems” • More than 41,000 employees and reported revenue of more than $10.2 billion in 2003 Oracle -‐ PeopleSo8 Takeover 4 PeopleSo8 • Founded in 1987
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recognition and reporting activities are not automated within Financial/ERP systems. As a result, 92% of public companies are forced to rely on spreadsheets to fill vital gaps in their revenue reporting processes—despite the fact that spreadsheets are prone to errors, lack audit capabilities, and resist internal controls. This, and other findings, is from a new report by www.RevenueRecognition.com and IDC, “Enterprise Systems and Revenue Recognition: The Missing Link”. Revenue Spreadsheets: The Compliance
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Which of the following are the primary functions of all organizations? a. operations, marketing, and human resources b. marketing, human resources, and finance/accounting c. sales, quality control, and operations d. marketing, operations, and finance/accounting e. research and development, finance/accounting, and purchasing d (Organizing to produce goods and services, moderate) Budgeting, paying the bills, and collection of funds are activities associated with the a. management function
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Management Systems (WMS) The evolution of warehouse management systems (WMS) is very similar to that of many other software solutions. Initially a system to control movement and storage of materials within a warehouse, the role of WMS is expanding to including light manufacturing, transportation management, order management, and complete accounting systems. To use the grandfather of operations-related software, MRP, as a comparison, material requirements planning (MRP) started as a system for planning
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need for an intermediary party. • The ability to set up smart contracts to regulate, track, and automate access to logistics, rights, and payments. • The ability to tag products with a traceable and uneditable digital product memory. Furthermore, the project focuses on delivering solutions to manufacturing pain points: • High costs to control, monitor, and inspect manufacturing projects. • High inventory with slow
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