Explaining the Information System to a Business user

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Explaining the Information System to a Business
user

• .Presenters.
• Joshua Oman
  omanjs_at_uwec.edu
• Dean Rich
  richdj_at_uwec.edu

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What to Leave With

• An understanding of this diagram
• The ability to help another understand

Source image from bowkera.com
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Main Points

• Major IS Components
• IS Hardware Personal
• Abstract view of the IS system
• Definitions in Software Applications
• Key IS Applications
• Computer Science and IS
• Examples of (CS IS) BS

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Major IS Components

• Five Major Components
• Repositories
• Interfaces
• Channels
• Services
• Messages

Defined as Any telecommunications and/or
computer related equipment or interconnected
system or subsystems of equipment that is used in
the acquisition, storage, manipulation,
management, movement, control, display,
switching, interchange, transmission, or
reception of voice and/or data, and includes
software, firmware, and hardware
Source AutomatedBuildings.com, Federal Standard
1037C and the National Information Systems
Security Glossary
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IS Personnel
It's the computer that's stupid, not you, right?

• IS workers
• Systems Analysts
• Programmers
• Operations Personnel
• Tech. Support
• Data entry

They teach this kind of stuff on Blue's Clues.
Source Business Essentials, by Ebert R. and
Griffin R.
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A Systems Theory Point of View

• Input
• Processing
• Output
• Storage

Source incits.org, International Committee for
Information Technology Standards
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Databases and Software
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Why?

• Everyone Uses Computers
• People need effective software

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Defining Key Terms

• Database
• Application program

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Three Main Application Programs

• Word Processing
• Spreadsheets
• Database Management

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Who Needs Application Programs

• Target
• Mayo Clinic
• Ramada Inn
• Ford
• Northwest Airlines
• EVERYONE!!!

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CS Jobs in 2004

• Network systems/data communication analysts
  231,000
• Database administrators
• 104,000
• Computer and information scientists, research
• 22,000
• Computer specialists, all other
• 149,000
• Over 3/5 in IS related industries

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Target Stores Use of IS

• Clerk Computers
• Store Inventories
• Store Orders
• Sales Forecasting
• NO/Little Lack of Inventory
• Gift Registry to Bring in Customers

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• http//www-1.ibm.com/partnerworld/pwhome.nsf/weblo
  ok/pub_strategies_ebod.html
• WebSphere
• Excel

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Excel

• Global
• Huge Excel Table
• Summary of Table on One Page

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WebSphere

• Middleware
• Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) expresses a
  perspective of software architecture that defines
  the use of services to support the requirements
  of software users

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• CS majors are very important
• Innovations all the time