Question

Discuss four main Technologies that an organisation invest in their Information System/Technology to attain their Business Status

Answer 1

An information system can be defined as a set of interrelated components that collect, process, store, and distribute information to support decision making and control in an organization.Information systems contain information about significant people, places, and things within the organization or in the environment and may also help managers and workers analyze problems and visualize complex subjects. By information we mean data that have been shaped into a form that is meaningful and useful to human beings. The main objective of the information system is to provide proper information ti the user, to gater information, process information and communicating information to the user of the system. An information system is the combination of computer hardware, software, database and network. They are also known as mani technologies for information system.
1. Computer Hardware- all the physical equipments used for input output and processing were hardwares. It consists of input devices, output devices, media devices amd computer peripheral devices.
2. Computer software- All the programs and applications which were used to control the input data and coordinate with hardware devices are softwares. It is used for analyzing and processing of the data. They work as instruction for the processing of information.
3. Databases- All the raw information, facts and figures are unorganized and they need to be processed to get information. For this, we need hardwares to put information and this information cannot work without software and softwares need data gor processing.
4. Network- Network refers to the the use of internet for communicating information with in the organization. Network consists of both physical and software devices such as router, hub, cables, operating systems, data servers and web servers. Network includes communication media and network support.