Foundations
of Information Systems
in Business
Contents Covered
• Major Roles of IS in Business
• Trends in Information Systems
• E-business
• Electronic commerce
Major Roles of IS in Business
Trends In IS
• 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
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
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.
• 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.
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.
Businesses today