Management information system

A management information system (MIS ) is a computer - technical information system. It provides the company with information, by means of which steered the company or controlling (ie, the production and distribution sector) can be operated. A MIS is economically oriented normally, while a management information system, (staff) deals with the principles of corporate governance. The economy of computer science concerned with designing, building and maintaining (management) information systems.

History

In the course of the 1960s grew up with technological advances in computer technology, the need to exploit the new possibilities of data processing for the preparation of information for corporate management. During this time the idea of a comprehensive management information system was born (the MIS). The concept of MIS was a very centralized approach, which attempted to bring together all enterprise data from the operating systems in a data model and compress in real time for analysis. Since the 1990s, the term MIS has become common again in another form. In practice, MIS is now used as an umbrella term in the field of analytical information systems (such as Decision Support System (DSS ), Executive Information System (EIS ) and partly also for OLAP applications and electronic reporting). The data basis for a modern MIS usually serves a data warehouse.

Definition / functions

In MIS the user information is provided, which are relevant for the performance of its tasks, such as to assist it in planning or decisions. For this, the actual information ( metrics of the company and the market ), which provide a real image of the current corporate state, summarized to indicators cockpits or reports for specific user groups (for example, the marketing department, purchasing, the Board, and other ). The information provided may also be the basis for further analysis and forecasts are used ( for example, by drafting trends ). To create such a forecast, a management information system also contain data that are obtained through statistical methods or by estimates and opinions ( subjective assumptions ) can be determined (so-called plan data).

There are two main theories that determine how an optimal management information system looks like:

Contingency theory argues that under certain situations or contingencies a particular design to be selected while to be selected under different conditions of other specified MIS design.

The transaction cost economics maintains that different processes or activities cause certain distinguishable contract problems. Companies use different management information systems to deal with various contractual problems.

  • Economic computer science
  • Management
  • Information System
  • Business Intelligence
  • Controlling
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