IT 313-Management Information System

ASSINGMENT:

1.) Why “MIS” describe as Management Information System?

University of Southeastern Philippines (USEP) as one of the premiere university in the country, one of its major purposes is to produce not just nationally but globally competitive students. Through this, the university provides courses for us students to pursue our desired carriers even if it’s hard. And one of its offered courses is the Bachelor of Science in Information Technology or BSIT under the Institute of Computing department.

As a 3^rd year BSIT student under the guidelines of the IC department. I and among of my classmates provided those subjects that will enhance our analyzing and computing skills. One of those assigned subjects is the “MIS” known as Management Information System, under the supervision of a strict but they said a cute instructor, Randy S. Gamboa.

“MIS” or subjectively known as Management Information System, because it is provided by the IC faculty among the students. Sometimes the term MIS and information system are often confused. Information systems include systems that are not intended for decision making. The area of study called Management Information System is sometimes referred to, in a restrictive sense, as information technology management. That area of study should not be confused with computer science. IT service management is a practitioner-focused discipline, which has also difference with other applications.

In addition, Management Information Systems (MIS) is the term given to the discipline focused on the integration of computer systems with the aims and objectives on an organization. By this definition, it make sense that “Management Information System” was focused on the development and management of information technology tools assists executives and the general workforce in performing any tasks related to the processing of information. With this, “MIS” systems are especially useful in the collation of business data and the production of reports to be used as tools for decision making for more valuable results.

At the start, in businesses and other organizations, internal reporting was made manually and only periodically, as a by-product of the accounting system and with some additional statistics, and gave limited and delayed information on management performance. Contagiously, the terms is now broadly used to assist systems applied in many industries and were used for the practical business of computing the payroll and keeping track of accounts payable and accounts receivable. As applications were developed that provided managers with information about sales, inventories, and other data that would help in managing the enterprise, the term "MIS" arose to describe these kinds of applications. Today, the term is used broadly in a number of contexts and includes decision support systems, resource and people management applications, project management and database retrieval application.

Furthermore, Management information systems are distinct from regular information systems in that they are used to analyze other information systems applied in operational activities in the organization. It also act as a subset of the overall internal controls of a business covering the application of people, documents, technologies, and procedures by management accountants or personnel in solving business problems such as costing a product, service or a business-wide strategy.

Academically, the term is commonly used to refer to the group of information management methods tied to the automation or support of human decision making and other information systems.

In other words, an “Management Information System” is a planned system of the collecting, processing, storing and disseminating data in the form of information needed to carry out the functions of management. In a way it is a documented report of the activities those were planned and executed.

“Management Information System” as of it keyword management, are now govern the social and economic life of many individuals through the wide use of many applied information systems and the contagious existence of the fast growth technologies.