Business Information Management

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BUSINESS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
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Table of Contents
Introduction....................................................................................................................2
Discussion......................................................................................................................2
Critical review of Information systems of Amazon...................................................2
Use of business information in Amazon....................................................................5
Recommendations..........................................................................................................8
Conclusion......................................................................................................................9
References....................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
This report aims to discuss the aspects of the business information management in the
Amazon Company. A critical review of the information systems of the Amazon Company is
briefly discussed in this report. The methods by which the company utilises the business
information in the organisation has been briefly stated in this report and at last, three
recommendations are provided to the Amazon company for suggesting some better methods
of the management of the business information in the organisation. Lastly, this report
concludes with the appropriate conclusion for the report.
Discussion
Critical review of Information systems of Amazon
In the present times, there is the increase of the use of the information systems in the
organisation for gaining significant benefit and the automation of the business process is also
feasible by the use of information system. Amazon Company utilises information system in
the organisation to automate the working of the various business process. Some of the
information system that are presently being used in the organisation are:
Management information system: The management information system could be
considered as the proper utilisation of the information technology, business processes and the
people for effective recording, storing as well as processing the data for the production of the
information that could be efficiently utilised by the decision makes for making the better
known daily decisions (Ogiela & Ogiela, 2015). The management information system could
be characterised as the collection of the systems, hardware, people and the procedures that
could work with coordination under the similar platform for the effective processing, storing
and then producing the information that could be useful for the organisation (Meyr, Wagner
& Rohde, 2015). The main components of the typical management information system could

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be discovered as the people, business procedures, data, software and the hardware (Brocke &
Rosemann, 2014). The levels of the information system that have been implemented in the
organisation are the management information systems, the transaction processing systems,
and the decision support structures.
The company extensively utilises the features of Enterprise Resource Planning or the
ERP software aimed at automation of various business processes of organisation. The
Enterprise Resource Planning could be defined as the modular software system which has
been planned for integration of the main purposeful areas of business processes of the
organisation within the common platform and help in the automation of the business (Leon,
2014). The ERP system involves the core software modules that are frequently entitled as the
modules that majorly focuses on the important business areas like the finance as well as the
accounting, supply chain management, the customer relationship management, production,
HR as well as the material management. The organisation chose the right modules from the
cluster of the modules and implemented the functionalities in the organisation (Tarhini et al.,
2015). The major feature among the ERP software and the other automation software is that
the ERP software comprises of the mutual central data using which the several modules of
the ERP software could access the information and some to which could be shared with any
other modules that are included in the business process. it denotes that the company, by the
utilisation of the ERP could be significantly saved from the having of the making the double
entries for the updating the information due to the fact that the data is shared by the system
and in turn allows the increase of the enhanced accuracy and the collaboration among the
departments of the organisation (Seethamraju, 2015). The company gained significantly from
the employment of ERP system and the most important benefit that was gained by the
organisation as the standardisation and the effective sharing among the various departments
of the organisation and it helped in the enhancement of the various business processes. The