Business Need of IT

Major Roles of IS

Support Competi

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Decision Making

Support of Business Processes and Operations

Internetworking of Computing

From the smallest to largest computers are being interconnected by Internet, Intranet and Extranet.

Client/Server approach can be used.Network centric concept is used i.e. Network is

the central computing resource of any computing environment.

Larger computer systems are replaced with client /server networks.

Legacy systems (Traditional mainframe based IS) are replaced by now Client server networks.

Internetworked EnterprisesBusinesses are becoming internetworked

enterprisesI.E. uses Internet, Intranet, Extranet to

support businesses.It includes E-commerce.Enterprise Collaboration Systems

support communication, coordination, collaboration among the members of networked teams and workgroups.

Globalization and ITBusinesses are expanding into global

markets.For their products & servicesUsing global production facilitiesTo manufacture or assemble productsRaising money in global capital marketsForming alliances with global partners & Battling with global competitors for customers

from all over the globe.

BPRBPR is used to restructure work by

transforming business processes.A business process is any set of activities

designed to produce a specified output for a customer/market.

Reengineering can be defined as the fundamental rethinking & redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvement over cost, quality, service and speed.