Saturday 12 March 2011

Types of information systems

The 'classic' view of Information systems found in the textbooks[30] of the 1980s was of a pyramid of systems that reflected the hierarchy of the organization, usually Transaction processing systems at the bottom of the pyramid, followed by Management information systems, Decision support systems and ending with Executive information systems at the top. Although the pyramid model remains useful, since it was first formulated a number of new technologies have been developed and new categories of information systems have emerged, some of which no longer fit easily into the original pyramid model.

Some examples of such systems are:

    * Data warehouses
    * Enterprise resource planning
    * Enterprise systems
    * Expert systems
    * Geographic information system
    * Global information system
    * Office Automation

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