Designed to organise useful information to present
to managers as summaries, charts and reports.
Help managers make strategic decisions. doesn't
make decision it's self.
Creates links between
sets of inter-related data
Collate Data + Produce
reports
Can inter-connect various systems or
modules and collate data from
multiple datbases
Modularisation of different
sub-systems means more sub-systems
can be added later or taken away if
needed. This means the system can be
built upon to make new reports and
new methods of collating data can be
created.
The information manager
ensures the right data is
collected to create needed
information
Also creates standard reports
Tasks
Monitoring budget,
cash-flows and sales
Identify trends
Gather info on other
organisations
Identify demographic of
customers
The MIS needs to be analysed so that is
meets the requirement of the organisation.
It's life cycle can be 2-4 years