Question

Explain MIS infrastructure and some ways it ensures continuous business operations. (Ch 5 - D/R, Scalability)

Discuss advantages and disadvantages of Cloud Computing, and why it is such an important development for MIS.

Identify the environmental impacts associated with MIS.

Describe a database, a database management system, and how they are different that spreadsheets.

Describe the important qualities of data (fig 6.4)

Define a data warehouse, and provide a few reasons they can make a manager more effective.

Explain the different network categories (LANs and WANs)

Explain topology and the different types found in networks.

Identify the different physical media types found in networks.

Differentiate the protocol between a circuit based telephone network and how the Internet works.

Describe the different wireless networks we use (think of your phones)

How is the focus of CRM systems different than SCM and ERP systems.

Why are enterprise systems so hard to implement

Answer 1

The plan for how the company would ideally share, deploy and use their data is called MIS infrastructure. It helps for creating and developing disaster recovery plans. Information, infrastructure MIS, agile and sustainable are few types of MIS infrastructure. It helps for reducing cost and the profitability is effectively improved.

Cloud computing is an effective emerging technology which the companies switched to and started using from on premise technologies. Cloud computing has become an important element for the companies for achieving competitive likeness.

Advantages

It is cost effective and takes lesser cost as compared to on premise technology. It offers enormous space at a good cost efficient rate.

It has high speed and helps to deploy service in fewer clicks. It helps for acquiring resources which is needed for the system.

It has great accessibility and helps for accessing it from any place.

It has effective back up and helps for restoring data in an effective manner.

It has several disadvantages and they have been listed below.

There are certain security issues and they might serve as a problem for information theft.

It has issue of low bandwidth and this can have issues for accessing the data.

There are issues related to flexibility and it can cause problem for the way the service runs.

It is usually incompatible and this may have serious challenges for the way the services run