The document defines an information system as a combination of hardware, software, infrastructure, and trained personnel organized to facilitate planning, control, coordination, and decision making in an organization. It notes information systems have advantages like making work easier, allowing real-time updates, and improving organizational quality, but also have disadvantages such as costs, system breakdowns, lack of IT skills, privacy issues, and unemployment. The document provides examples of how information systems are used in daily life and business.

1. Definition Of Information
System and Advantages and
Disadvantages
Presented by Lansey Wegner anak Chassing
Kasan (2009745477)
Presented For Encik Shamsul Kamil Bin
Mohd Faker

2. Introduction
 Nowadays, society become dependent
on information systems. Information
systems has help many people in their
daily life routine.
 Information system itself bring the
meaning of business application in the
computer that manage their operations,
compete in the marketplace, accounts
and manage human resources.

3. Definition Of Information
System
 According BussinessDictionary.com information system is
a combination of hardware, software, infrastructure and
trained personnel organized to facilitate planning, control,
coordination and decision making in an organization.
 Information system is a such as one in the opening
scenario are combinations of hardware, software, and
telecommunications networks that people build and use
to collect, create an didtribute useful data especially in
organizational settings . (Information Systems Today :
Why is Matter? Second Edition).

4. Figure 1.0 An information system is a combination of five key
elements : people, hardware, software, data and
telecommunications networks. (Information Systems Today :
Why is Matter? Second Edition)

5. Advantages
 Make people easily do their work
 Real time updating
 Improvement of quality care of organization
 Help the user to store large amount of
information
 Has made possible for business to be open 24x7
all over the globe
 The creation of new and interesting jobs

6. DISADVANTAGES
 Cost
 System or network breakdown or
shutdown
 Doesn’t have basic IT skills
 Privacy issues
 Unemployed

7. CONCLUSION
 Conclusion, information system is one new
way in that can help us in this new era of
technology. Besides that, it help us a lot in
our daily life but it also have the
disadvantages. But as user, we should
know how to solve that problems. We
must have the solution to put the
information system bring more advantages
for us.

8. REFERENCE
 Cashman, S. (2010). Discovering Computers 2010. United State
of America:Digital Technology
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Shah Alam:Institut Perkembangan Pendidikan.
 Karen D. Loch, Houston H. Carr and Merrill E. Warkentin. (1992)
Threats to Information System:Today’s Reality, Yesterday’s
Understanding. Retrieve October 1, 2011 from
http://www.jstor.org/stable/249574
 http://www.is.umbc.edu/about_us/aboutIS.asp?ID=4
 http://www.BusinessDictionary.com
 http://www.EncyclopediaBritannia.com