A Key Concept in Information Systems

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A Key Concept in Information Systems Over the previous quarter of a century, information systems have become widely accepted as an integral part of the organizational infrastructure. Managing the information resources in the decision-making processes is one of the most prominent challenges of organizations. A better internal data management is a moment in time to unveil a new product, diminishing red tape, and subsiding the costs of the organization. Information systems (IS) includes hardware and software, people and procedures, policies and processes which are concerned with the compilation, storage, conversions, and recovery of data and intelligence (Sharkey & Acton, 2013). An Information System (IS) is defined as "a set of interrelated components that collect, manipulate, store, and disseminate data and information and provide a feedback mechanism to meet an objective" (Stair & Reynolds, 2006). Information systems are designed to deliver assistance for adequate decision making are known as management support systems. Management support systems are necessary to a blooming business landscape that increasingly relies on database and information technology at its foundation. While any number of different management support systems exist to provide organizational support during the decision-making process, this thesis examines decision support systems. Decision making plays a compelling role in the existence of individuals and organizations. Not only can individuals and organizations be subject to their choices, but they can also be vulnerable to those of others. More specifically, it is the exercise of decisions that impress upon individuals and organizations, because a decision is fundamentally a commitment to a plan of action (Dong, Jupp, Boyle, Duffy, & Whitfield, 2012). Decision support systems or better known as DSS, are an area of information

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