IT for Business: Expert System and Geographical Information System

This report delves into the realm of Information Technology for Business, examining the functionalities and applications of websites, expert systems, and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). The report starts by exploring whether every website can be considered a form of a Global Information System, explaining the similarities in data management and functionalities. It then moves on to discuss the purpose and competitive advantages of expert systems, highlighting their role in enhancing expertise and decision-making. Finally, the report examines the nature and purpose of GIS, including its components, data management capabilities, and applications in various industries. The report utilizes cited references to support its arguments and provide a comprehensive understanding of each system's role in a business context.

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Week 9
Is every website a form of global IS? Why and Why not?
Every website can be defined as the form of Global Information System as most of
the websites are built on the as context as a website (Kasemsap 2018). All the functionalities
of a website is very much similar to GIS. Both these two platforms are used by the users to
manage and maintain data which are used in global corporate establishments. All the
measurable data can be accessed by these two platforms.
It can be justified that every website is very much helpful in storage of data, mapping
of the data, retrieval of data, and analysis of data which is the exact same functionality of a
GIS where users publish and maintain data.
What is the purpose of an expert system? How can it serve as a competitive tool?
The main objective of an expert system is to provide advice at a comparable level to
the human expert. The expert systems can be very much beneficial to enhance the abilities of
leading experts (Maylawati, Darmalaksana and Ramdhani 2018). High level expertise are
made available to the experts using the expert system. It can be said that the decision making
ability of a human expert can be enhanced using the expert system.
It can be said that the expert system can serve as a competitive tool, regarding the
usage of expert systems. The use of the expert system can serve as a competitive tool as it can
help the experts to have a competitive edge over the other experts.
What is a geographical information system (GIS)? What purpose does it serve?
GIS can be defined as the category of system which are used in most of the corporate
establishments to design, capture analyse, store and present the geographical data. Spatial

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analysis is one of the major functionality of the GIS (Pham, Degener, and Kappas 2018). The
different components of GIS are methods, people, data, hardware and software. The
uncertainties of the geographical data can be managed effectively using the GIS.
The notable objective of the GIS is to create geographical maps using the
geographical data. The data which are managed and access from the GIS are stored mainly on
the database. GIS is widely used in different categories of industries such as the daily
industry as it helps in the managing the distribution of the products and managing the
production.

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Reference
Kasemsap, K., 2018. Advocating information system, information integration, and
information sharing in global supply chain. In Operations and Service Management:
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 1536-1559). IGI Global.
Maylawati, D.S., Darmalaksana, W. and Ramdhani, M.A., 2018, January. Systematic Design
of Expert System Using Unified Modelling Language. In IOP Conference Series: Materials
Science and Engineering (Vol. 288, No. 1, p. 012047). IOP Publishing.
Pham, T.G., Degener, J. and Kappas, M., 2018. Integrated universal soil loss equation
(USLE) and Geographical Information System (GIS) for soil erosion estimation in A Sap
basin: Central Vietnam. International Soil and Water Conservation Research, 6(2), pp.99-
110.