Components of an Information System and Porter's Five Forces Model

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Introduction
The main aim of the essay is to describe the components of an IS using the five-
component framework, Porter’s five forces model, collaboration information system,
database management system, content management system, knowledge management system,
customer relationship management system, enterprise resource management system, social
media IS, decision support system, enterprise IS, technical and human safeguard to protect
against IS security threats and SDLC and Scrum.
Discussion
Components of an information system (IS) using the five-component framework
The IS or information system comprises of 5 main components which includes
hardware, software, data, procedure and people (Kampis, 2013). Hardware includes the
physical parts like desktops or laptops, software include OS and several programs and data
involves all kinds of facts or information which are entered into the computer. Procedure
describes the process how the other four components of the framework are used and lastly
people includes all users and supporters of IT.
Porter’s five forces model
The Porter’s five forces model is considered to be as a tool which is used for
analysing and determining the strength of competition which is going in the market or in the
industry and check the level of profit as well (Yunna & Yisheng, 2014). It was created by M.
Porter in the year 17979. As the name suggests this model comprises of five forces namely

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entry threat, power of the customers to bargain, power of the suppliers to bargain, threat of
the replacements and lastly rivalry within the industry itself.
A collaboration information system
A collaboration information system is an information system which helps in
facilitating document, information or knowledge sharing between groups or teams and people
within any organisation or enterprise (Laudon & Laudon, 2016). Instant message sharing is
provided by Yahoo.com or AOL may be described as one of the collaboration information
system.
A database management system
A database management system is defined as a system software allowing the users as
well as the programmers to create, read, recover, modify and also manage the data or
information which are stored in databases (Stonebraker et al., 2013).This system software is
responsible for the creation and management of databases. My SQL is one of the examples of
DBMS.
A content management system
A content management system is defined as a system capable of managing the
formation and alteration of the contents which are digital and it is also responsible for
supporting a number of user in a communal environment (Robinson et al.,2014). Many of the
CMS include publishing based on net. WordPress is one of the content management system
software.