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Information System
TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1Overview of Amazon..................................................................................................................1LO2..................................................................................................................................................2P3 Various ways of IT system store and process data for knowledge, customer-relationship,data and communication management. ......................................................................................2M2 & D2 Analyse the different ways IT system store and process data in Amazon.................3LO3..................................................................................................................................................6P4 Mention how IT system can support to value added change for improving businessoperation, performance and sustainability. ................................................................................6M3 and D3 Advantages and disadvantages of Value added changes made by Amazon andrecommendation for improving IT system in the support of value-added change. ...................6LO4..................................................................................................................................................7P5 Recommend practical IT solution for Amazon for their business problems at workplace....7M4 & D4 Evaluate how IT system support practical solution to future value to specificbusiness problems and identify consequences of their implementation.....................................7CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9ILLUSTRATION INDEXIllustration 1: BPM suite used by Amazon......................................................................................5
INTRODUCTIONBusiness communication continuously growing and affects the company's internal andexternal information sharing. In the present era, information technology (IT) play's crucial role infield such as administration, finance, marketing, manufacturing, and production (InformationSystems, 2017). Moreover, it is required for e-commerce, promotion and for maintaining thedata correctly. Without it there will be no business connection and communication withcustomers and staff members. Firms are investing millions in order to improve and upgrade theirinformation technology (Rothberg and et. al., 2017). Though this organization can get higherflexibility in operation and management firms and for maintaining large amount of data. IT isintegration of various software, hardware, various information system, feedback's, stages andhuman resource. All these are required for complete functioning of the IT system. Inorganisations, information system used is based on the application (Evans and Kitchin, 2017).They can be classified as decision support system, DBMS, Knowledge and learning managementsystem and at last transaction system. The present research study is made about IT system used by Amazon. In addition to this,various ways of IT system store and process data related to various management are discussed.Along with this, discussion about its support to value added changes for enhancing businessoperation, performance and sustainability. At last, recommendation is provided along with itsjustification for the company. Overview of AmazonFrom past 30 years the use of information system in the organization has increased.Amazon is largest cloud computing, online-book store and e-commerce public firm of Americawhich was founded by Jeff Bezos on 5th July, 1994. It is international company having morethan 5 lakh employees and revenue of US$135.98 billion (Meneses and et. al., 2017). It uses ITto perform its functional, managerial, operational and transaction securely. Moreover, the systemensure that customers are getting more diversified and specific service and their data are safe andsecure. Amazon is using the services to achieve their goals, vision and long-term sustainability. Hardware and softwareDue to its global expansion they mostly operates through information system. Theorganization has gained success through the integrating two technologies which are CRM and ITManagement to develop overall firm strategies (Narang, Kumar and Verma, 2017). Further,1
Linux platform with IT infrastructure is used by them to manage the order, transaction, issuesand queries of billions users world-wide (Tretikov and Szczesny, 2017). Along with this, theyhave personal data of billions of people. IT system is required by the Amazon for transactionprocessing, operational performance, maintaining customer preference, their information and formaking strategic business planning. Besides all this they are largest provider of cloudinfrastructure services (IaaS and PaaS) at international level (McBride, Lambert and Cornet,2017). LO2P3 Various ways of IT system store and process data for knowledge, customer-relationship, dataand communication management. Information is the raw resources of organization which can exist in tangible and in-tactical way. World wide web, internet, intranet, LAN, WAN, EDI, SCM, e-Commerce and e-CRM are different ways through which IS is cultivated in the enterprise. There are 6-types ofinformation level system they areTransaction processing system: It is used for collecting, storing, modifying and revertingthe transaction details. It comprise of various system such as Office Automation,Knowledge management, Management information, Decision support and Executiveinformation. It comes under the operational level system and is maintained byOperational managers. Specialized system: Under this, IT solution and services are provided that helps to solvethe challenging situations (Jayaraman and et. al., 2017, Volpe. and et. al., 2017). Some ofthe better system are: Enterprise resources planning, customer relationship, Supply-chain,Human resources management, Core banking system and accounting information systemare used. They are used to protect the personal and customers data. Artificial intelligence: There are unlimited application of AI as it is simplified, intelligenthuman behaviours operated through computers (Lindström, Källström and Kyösti, 2017).They can use parallel system to solve the problem, can discover then. Along with this,they use, Natural language processing, and many other devices at single time forprocessing multiple information. Expert system: This are the computer embedded information system that aids in decision-making (Lindström, Källström and Kyösti, 2017)2
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