Business Information System

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Business Information System
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Discussion..................................................................................................................................2
1. Analysis of SSL for Identifying the Value to Obtain from the Current Portfolio of IS.....2
2. Analysis of Constructing IS Strategy with Major Benefits................................................4
3. Analysis of Strategic Potential for Greater Investments in Information Systems.............6
4. Description of Current Location of IS functions within SSL with Recommendation.......7
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................8
References..................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
Business information system is the set of inter related processes, utilizing the
infrastructure of information technology within the business enterprise for the purpose of
generating as well as disseminating the expected information (Laudon and Laudon 2016).
These business information systems are designed for supporting the decision making process
by the people associated with the enterprise within the procedure of the attainment of the
objectives and goals. This type of business information system could obtain data or any other
resource of the infrastructure of IT as the inputs from the processes and environment for
satisfying the needs of information with the enterprise of business. These systems are the sub
systems of the business systems so that the feedback and control are served properly (Bajdor
and Grabara 2014). The following report outlines a brief discussion on the business
information system about the case study of SSL or Security Services Limited. The analysis of
SSL to identify the values and IS strategies would also be provided here. Moreover, the
strategic potential and IS functions would be described in this report.
Discussion
1. Analysis of SSL for Identifying the Value to Obtain from the Current Portfolio of IS
The organization of Security Services Limited is the major providers of the private
security services within the UK. The turnover was high in various organizations and provides
the wide range of services to its clients (Gallagher and Sixsmith 2014). This organization has
eventually grown for the combination of the factors including the organic growth from the
major businesses. The analysis and the installation of the security devices or regular security
sweep is also done here. The organizational value is identified in this particular organization.
This value is obtained from the current portfolio of the information systems. SSL has
identified the information management as the major enabler of business as well as the

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government. The performance of the company is increased and they have been utilizing the
information efficiently and effectively (Liu, Liang and Wang 2016). The major situation has
occurred regarding the solutions of the past technology for fulfilling the requirements of the
business of SSL. These solutions could eventually take into account the main requirements of
the company for leading to the incompatibilities as well as duplication of the efforts and
costs. The major aspects that are required to be analysed in this particular case study of SSL
are as follows:
i) Incompatible Systems: The first and the foremost important and significant aspect
that is to be checked for the proper analysis is the incompatible systems. The major
requirement of these systems is to create an integrated as well as unified access to the entire
data holding of the organization (Dahlstrom, Walker and Dziuban 2013). Moreover, the
myriad of the disparate or incompatible storage and the inherited data is also checked
eventually.
ii) Information Impacts on the Decisions: There is a strong impact of the
organizational information of SSL on the various decisions undertaken by them. The
information management system of this particular organization has the capability of handling
all types of complex data and hence enables them in taking the major decisions.
iii) Future Proofing Information and the Technology Investments: SSL has built
certain technique on the principle to be sure that the information system is offering the
flexibility as well as power for managing the current or the future data as well as the storage
management requirements (Dahlstrom and Bichsel 2014). A feature rich system is being
integrated to the existing IT infrastructures and could be readily extended by their customers.
The investment protection is provided by connecting the new as well as legacy storage and
data for enabling the tools to include the cloud based storages.