MIS 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Access Control, Uptodate, Voicemail

• School: DePaul University
• Department: Management Information Systems
• Course: MIS 140
• Professor: Kanter Howard

Document Summary

Employees must be able to obtain and analyze the many different levels, formats, and granularities of organizational information to make decisions. Successfully collecting, compiling, sorting, and analyzing information can provide tremendous insight into how an organization is performing. Transactional information: encompasses all of the information contained within a single business process or unit of work, and its primary purpose is to support the performing of daily operational tasks. Analytical information: encompasses all organizational information, and its primary purpose is to support the performing of managerial analysis tasks. Timeliness is an aspect of information that depends on the situation. Real-time system: provides real-time information in response to requests. Business decisions are only as good as the quality of the information used to make the decisions. You never want to find yourself using technology to help you make a bad decision faster. Potential business effects resulting from low quality include.