Managing Information and Technology

Managing information
and Technology

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Categories and types of information system................................................................................3
ERP systems and various benefits to these systems....................................................................4
Challenges to use of deploy ERP systems...................................................................................6
Solutions to the challenges..........................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Information system is defined as a collective set of parts essential for storage, collection and
processing information. In addition to this, it is basically a software which is vital in organising
as well as analysing information thereby making it solutions within the operations of company
(Agozie, Nat and Edu, , 2020). The purpose of information system is to turn information into
effective and useful data which can be used at the time of decision making procedure of an
organization. The main objective of the report is to discuss categories and forms of information
system. In addition to this, there is a discussion regarding ERP systems along with its benefits.
Moreover, challenges to deploy and use ERP system along with the solutions to deal with such
challenges is elaborated in the report.
MAIN BODY
Categories and types of information system
Organisations make use of information technology systems which help them to manage a
specific business unit as well as organisational level. The different forms of information systems
used by companies is given below:
Transaction processing system: It is defined as an information system which is mainly
used to record day to day transactions of the company. In addition to this, such information
system is used at operational level with an objective to answer routine questions. It is analysed
that with the help of TPS an organisation is able to know about data produced from the
transaction processing system in detailed. The examples of transaction processing system is
payroll systems, stock control system, point of sale system and so on.
Another example is Tesco as it record all the data about its customers or the record of a
client customer relationship management information (Alahyari, Ehsan and Moghimi, 2020). By
the assistance of this, Tesco can gain a higher level of accuracy and reliability and is easily able
to decline the level of potential human errors.
Management information system: This type of information system is mainly used by
tactical managers or higher authorities in order to monitor the current performance status of an
organisation. It is analysed that management information system analyse the input with regular
algorithms that is summarize the overall results in order to develop report which is further used
in order to control, monitor as well as predict future performance. Some of the examples of