Foundations of Information Systemsin Business

1. Foundations
of Information Systems
in Business

2. Contents Covered
• Major Roles of IS in Business
• Trends in Information Systems
• E-business
• Electronic commerce

3. Major Roles of IS in Business

4. Trends In IS

5. • expanded our abilities with regard to using
information systems
• basic things that they began doing over 40
years ago
• process transactions, keep records, provide
management with useful and informative
reports, and provide support to the
foundational accounting systems and
processes of the organization

6. What is changed?
• enjoy a much higher level of integration of
system functions across applications
• greater connectivity across both similar and
dissimilar system components
• ability to reallocate critical computing tasks
such as data storage
• processing, and presentation to take
maximum advantage of business and strategic
opportunities

7. The Role of e-business in Business
• businesses today are using Internet
technologies
• e-business definition:
• It is the use of Internet technologies to work
and empower business processes, electronic
commerce, and enterprise collaboration
within a company and with its customers,
suppliers, and other business stakeholders.

8. • e-business can be more generally considered
an online exchange of value.
• The companies rely on e-business applications
to
(1) reengineer internal business processes
(2) implement electronic commerce systems
with their customers and suppliers
(3) promote enterprise collaboration among
business teams and workgroups.

9. Enterprise collaboration systems
• They involve the use of software tools to
support communication, coordination, and
collaboration among the members of
networked teams and workgroups.
• Electronic commerce
the buying, selling, marketing, and servicing of
products, services, and information over a
variety of computer networks.

10. Businesses today