INSY Flashcards
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set of detailed methods, procedures, and routines establishes or formulations to carry out a specific activity, perform a duty, or solve a problem
System
- The dissection of a system into its component pieces to study how those component pieces interact and work
- Survey and planning
- Study and analysis
- Definition
System analysis
- The process of defining architecture, components, modules, interfaces and data for a system to satisfy specified requirements.
System Design
- Installing a system without proper planning leads to great user dissatisfaction and frequently causes the system to fall into disuse
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any person who has interests in an existing or proposed information system.
- May include both technical an non-technical workers
- May also be internal ones or may be the external one
SYSTEM STAKEHOLDERS
the individual responsible for the overall procurement, development, integration, modification, operation, maintenance, and retirement of an information system
System owner
person who interacts with a system, typically through and interface, to extract some functional benefit.
- System users
Clerical and service workers
Technical and professional staffs
Supervisors, middle managers and executive managers
a. Internal system users
Customer
Suppliers
Partners
Employees
b. External system user
person in charge of the system’s architectural, logical, and physical design to satisfy specified requirements.
- System designers
persons involved in designing and writing computer programs that allow the computer hardware to interface with the programmer and the user, leading to the effective execution of application software on the computer system.
- System builders
professional who specializes in analyzing, designing and implementing information systems
* A person who uses analysis and design techniques to solve business problems using information technology.
- System analysts
managers, external companies, system stakeholders, users, vendors and suppliers, software programmers, and technical specialists.
SYSTEM ANALYST ROLES & QUALITIES
- The analyst plays a key role in information system development projects
- Must understand how to apply technology to solve business problems
- May serve as change agents who identify organizational improvement.
Roles of a system analyst
- Problem solver
- Communicator
- Strong personal and professional ethics
- Self-disciplined and self-motivated.
Qualities of the system analyst
support day-to-day operations of the company
Operational level
it is a large amounts of data for routine business transactions
- Transaction processing system
supports data workers who share information, but do not usually create new knowledge
- Office automation system (OAS
supports professional workers such as scientists, engineer, and doctors
- Knowledge work system (KWS)
an organized collection of people, procedures, software, database, and devices used to provide routine information to managers and decision-makers
- Management information system (MIS)
aids decision-makers in the making of decisions.
- Decision support system (DSS)
captures and uses the knowledge of an expert for solving a particular problem, which leads to a conclusion or recommendation.
Expert system
helps executive to make unstructured strategic decisions in an informed way.
- Executive support system (ESS)
permit group members to interact with electronic support
- Group decision support system (GDSS)