Impact of Information Systems on Study In Australia (SIA) - A Case Study

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1. Introduction
This case study is based on the impact of Information Systems (IS) within “Study In
Australia” (SIA), which specialises in the process of recruiting of international students based on
their admission to different renowned universities. This business was established by Ronak and
his friends. Initially the business had a simple business model in which the processes of the
business were manually set. They included the records of the students, filling of forms, tracking
of offer letters, confirmation of enrolment processes, processing of payments based on the behalf
of service providers of education. With the advancements of technology, it has been seen that
many of the competitors of the business were making use of online platforms based on tracking
of applications of students. The issues within the business would be needed to be solved by
following certain kinds of strategies that would also be able to mitigate the different kinds of
challenges. This report helps in providing different kinds of solutions to the SIA based on
addressing of issues and thus providing advice for the successful implementation of
improvement structures within the business. This would be provided by studying the works by
other authors and finding out the best possible solutions.
2. Discussion
2.1 Annotated Bibliographies
Laudon, K.C. and Laudon, J.P., 2015. Management information systems (Vol. 8). Prentice
Hall.
This paper is based on the research conducted by Laudon and Laudon (2015) based on
impact of Information Systems (IS) within the different kinds of small businesses. There are
different forms of IS that would be able to support the different processes within the small

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businesses. The different kinds of technologies that could transform the sector of business would
include the impact of different forms of digital platforms such as the emergence of cloud
computing technologies, proliferation of platforms based on digital businesses such as desktop
and laptop computers. These kinds of devices would be able to support different kinds of
softwares, which might be able to put an impact on the business of the firm. In this research, the
author focuses on the use if enterprise systems that have been able to put a major form of impact
on different enterprises with the aid of their inbuilt systems. These systems comprise of database
systems that are able to store a wide range of data. This would be helpful for the concerned
business as it would be helpful for storing the records of the students, managing of leave request
and maintaining of timelines as per the needs of the project. The author also discusses about the
impact of enterprise software that would be able to build different business processes. With the
impact of enterprise systems, the business would be able to bring efficiency within their business
processes and would also streamline the different business process. This would help in sharing
the information of the students across different websites and thus also be able to manage the
movement of the files of the student from one part of the website to another. Based on the
considerations of the works of the author, it could be concluded that the use of IS would be
supporting the processes of the business and would also help in solving the different kinds of
issues faced within the organisation.
Chen, C.P. and Zhang, C.Y., 2014. Data-intensive applications, challenges, techniques and
technologies: A survey on Big Data. Information Sciences, 275, pp.314-347.
This research has been based on focusing about the different kinds of problems that were
faced by the traditional business processes of SIA. Based on the traditional processes of SIA, it
has been seen that they followed the traditional processes of data storing systems of the student

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records. This research focuses on the impact of new kinds of technologies that have been
implemented within the system of SIA. These would be helpful for the management of systems
for storing the records of the students in a new manner. Based on the case study, it has been seen
that the SIA did not make have their presence on the online platform. This would make the
process of storing of the records to be difficult in a certain manner and it would also be hectic to
find out the proper records of the students. Chen and Zhang (2014) have focused on the impacts
of Big Data technologies based on productivity within the business and bringing about massive
forms of changes and opportunities for the business. The Big Data technologies are regarded as a
form of high-volume of information assets that would require new methods of processing based
on enabling of enhanced mode of decision making, insight on discovery and optimization of
processes. The authors have also focused on the ways in which the adoption of Big Data
technologies would be able to change the ways in which the business processes would be done.
Based on the considerations from the study conducted by the author, it could be concluded that
the impact of Big Data technologies would be able to serve the SIA in a better manner.
Al-Mamary, Y.H., Shamsuddin, A. and Abdul Hamid, N.A., 2013. The impact of
management information systems adoption in managerial decision making: A review.
Management Information Systems, 8(4), pp.010-017.
This research is based on the review of the impact of Management Information Systems
(MIS) based on making of critical decisions within the organisation. The MIS is a kind of system
that has the capability of the conversion of data into valuable information. This kind of
information would be communicated in a proper manner to the different managers who would be
involved within the organisation. This kind of vital information would be able to contribute
towards the making of vital forms of decisions. Al-Mamary, Shamsuddin and Abdul Hamid