Information System Types
Types of information system that use computers divided into four types as follow:
1. Operational System: system designed to process data generated by day to day business transaction of company for example operational system are accounting, and billing. Note the operational system are called transaction processing systems.
2. Management Information Systems(MIS): refers to a computer based system that generates timely and accurate information for the top, middle and lower levels of management. for example to process a sales order would record the sales, update the customer’s accounts receivable balance and make a deduction from the inventory but in the management information system reports would be produced that show slow or fast slowing items, customers with past due accounts receivable balances and inventory items that need recording. In the management information system the focus in on the information that management needs to do its job.
3.Decision Support System (DSS): is a system designed to help someone reach a decision by summarizing or comparing data from either or both internal and external sources. Internal sources include data from an organization’s file such as sales, manufacturing or financial data.External sources could include information on interest rates, population trends or new housing. Decision support system often include query languages, statistical analysis capabilities, spreadsheets and graphics to help and evaluate the decision data.
4. Expert Systems : combine the knowledge on a given subject of one or more human experts into a computerized system that simulates the human experts reasoning and decision making process.