Information Technology

Information Systems as Support to Corporate Management

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The idea of this paper is to introduce the great support of information systems to the
management activities of a corporation. Information system as a combination of
information technology and people’s actions that support operations, management and
decision making, involves four major types of systems: Transaction Management
System, Management Information System, Decision-Support System and Executive
Support System, and with that it is able to entail and support all business activities. In
traditional firms these systems tend to be isolated from one another, and information
does not flow seamlessly from one end of the organization to the other. However, in
contemporary digital firms, the different types of systems are closely linked to one
another. Taking into account the main areas of an enterprise, viewed from a functional
perspective; manufacturing and production, sales and marketing, finance and
accounting and human resources, one of the major challenges that enterprises face
today, is putting together data from all of the departments in order to make information
flow across the enterprise. These changes require powerful new systems that can
integrate information from many different functional areas and organizational unites
and coordinate firm activities with those of suppliers and other business partners.
Those new systems or applications, also called as enterprise applications help to unify
the firm’s structure and organization, provides more efficient operations and customerdriven
business processes, help in achieving great efficiencies by automating parts of
processes, contribute to completely rethinking processes, assist in all levels of
management and in the perspective of technology, the corporation is represented as a
unified platform. Although there are several challenges to build these systems, we
strongly believe that there are extraordinary opportunities to use information systems
to achieve business value and increase profitability

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Information Systems as Support to Corporate Management

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Publisher

: Management Information Systems,., 2013

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1-7

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English

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I.T

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