what is an information systems
- an organized combination of
- people, hardware , software, communications networks, data resources,policies and procedures
- that stores, retrieves, transforms, and disseminates information in an organization
- subsystem in MIS
- computer systems, management, system engineering, application
- information systems versus information technology
- IS is all the components and resources necessary to deliver information and functions to organization
- IT is hardware,software, networking and data management
- in theory, IS could be paper based
- but we will focus on computer-based information systems