Business Information Systems Report for ABC Company

This report presents a Business Information System (BIS) designed for ABC Company, a new apparel retailer. The report focuses on developing a system to manage sales, customer, product, and employee data. It explores the application of information technology infrastructures to improve and manage business processes. The report introduces the concept of a Sales and Marketing Information System, emphasizing the management of order details, customer information, and product data. It includes an Entity-Relationship Diagram (ERD) to illustrate the relationships between different system entities. The BIS manages data entry forms, a database for record-keeping, and the generation of reports and queries. Finally, the report discusses the export of information into Excel files for statistical analysis through charts and graphs, providing a comprehensive overview of the system's functionality and benefits for ABC Company.

Running head: BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Business Information Systems
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Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Discussion..................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................5
Reference....................................................................................................................................5

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Introduction
ABC Company is a new retailer of Apparel in Victoria. Their demands for sales has
been increased in recent times. They want to manage the sales information by establishing a
Business Information System. This proposed report deals with the development of the
management system for ABC Company where the details of the sales, customer, product
employee etc. can be managed. The system consists of data entry forms and a database for
keeping the records.
Discussion
Business Information Systems is a type of system where the processes of any
Business Organization is improved and managed by applying the information Technology
infrastructures (Rainer et al. 2013). Business process of an organization totally depends on
the main aim of the Company. Managing information of any business process is not an easy
task and it cannot be maintained by a single management system. All type of business
systems are required to be developed after knowing their needs which also can be stated as
requirements of the system. The system requirements can be analysed on the basis of its
functional goal and in terms of its major groups in the organization (Lindström 2013).
As the ABC Company deals with the product and sales, an inventory management
system can be introduced. For managing an inventory system the data of products and its
location is major information. However, the company does not produce the products, hence,
it will not be an easy and relevant task to treat the system as Inventory Management System.
On another hand, it also keeps the employees details and it can be related to the employee
management system (Chang 2016). For employee management system, the employee details,
contact address and their salary is required. However, the type of BIS (Business Information
System is used to developed for ABC company is Sales and Marketing Information System.

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The developed system deals with the inputting, fetching and managing of data which is
related with sales made by any employees, orders placed by customers and the type and
category of the products associated with the order. The type of data required for sales and
marketing management system are the order details (sales details), person associated with
order, date, services of the system etc.
Figure 1: Entity Relationship Diagram
Source: Created by author
Some entities have many to many relationships with each other which can be resolved
by introducing a third new entity between them (McGrew and Cohen 2013). The different
section of this Business Information System is related with each other. The system has some
major entities and their relationship is represented by the Entity-relationship diagram (Figure
1).

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Conclusion
The Business Information System is most commonly used system for maintaining a
business organizations’ data. In this proposed system, the creation of forms that will store the
each data at the time of order or other activities. First the database is created and populated by
appropriate assumed values successfully. Also the reports and queries have been successfully
applied to the developed schema. Later the information can be export into Excel Files and by
applying charts and graphs the data can be analysed statistically.

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Reference
Chang, J.F., 2016. Business process management systems: strategy and implementation.
Auerbach Publications.
Lindström, J., Plankina, D., Nilsson, K., Parida, V., Ylinenpää, H. and Karlsson, L., 2013.
Functional products: business model elements. In Product-Service Integration for
Sustainable Solutions (pp. 251-261). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
McGrew, R.J. and Cohen, S., Palantir Technologies Inc, 2013. Resolving database entity
information. U.S. Patent 8,554,719.
Rainer, R.K., Cegielski, C.G., Splettstoesser-Hogeterp, I. and Sanchez-Rodriguez, C.,
2013. Introduction to information systems: Supporting and transforming business. John
Wiley & Sons.