Information systems

Information systems (IS) is the study of how people put data into computers to create useful information.[1][2][3][4]

There are five things you need to make an information system work:

  • People - People that are using these computers to do their jobs.
  • Procedures - The things people have to DO to do their jobs.
  • Hardware - The actual computers that people use to store facts.
  • Software - The instructions on these computer screens that tell you how to enter facts into the computer.
  • Data - Facts, facts, and more facts in the computer.

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References

  1. Definition of Application Landscape (Jan 21, 2009)Software Engineering for Business Information Systems (sebis). Retrieved January 14, 2011.
  2. Archibald, J.A.. Computer Science education for majors of other disciplines. AFIPS Joint Computer Conferences (May 1975). p. 903–906.
  3. Denning, Peter. COMPUTER SCIENCE: THE DISCIPLINE. Encyclopaedia of Computer Science (2000 Edition) (July 1999).
  4. Coy, Wolfgang. Between the disciplines. ACM SIGCSE Bulletin 36 (2) (June 2004). p. 7–10. doi:10.1145/1024338.1024340.