I S 300: INTRODUCTION TO

INFORMATION SYSTEMS
- Winter 2017
- Shaosong Ou, Ph.D.

Session 3 January 11th, 2017

Types of Information Systems
Introducing Web Development
 Agenda

Types of Business Information Systems

Sales / Marketing, Accounting / Finance, Manufacturing / Production, and Human
Resource
TPS vs. Business Intelligence (MIS/DSS/ESS)

Introduction to Web Development

Client-server communication
HTML coding

Session 4 prep.: Case Discussion

IT & Zaras Fast Fashion
Organization Structure
IS by Business Functions

Manufacturing &
Production System

Sales & Marketing

System

Finance & Accounting

System

Human Resource
System
 IS by Management Groups

Systems for Business Intelligence

Strategic-level: help senior management -- ESS
tackle and address strategic issues

Management-level: serve the monitoring,

controlling, decision-making, & -- MIS or DSS
administrative functions

Transaction Processing Systems -- TPS

Operational-level: support operational
activities and transactions
Order Processing Systems
 Barcodes & Error-Checking
3211 = 0
2221 = 1
2122 = 2
1411 = 3
1132 = 4
1231 = 5
1114 = 6
1312 = 7
1213 = 8
First 11 digits: product ID 3112 = 9
Last bit: Built-in error checking
Multiply and add the first 11 digits like this:
(0+2+4+6+8+0) x 3 + (1+3+5+7+9) x 1 = 60 + 25 = 85
Add the last digit, the result must be multiples of ten
85 + 5 (last digit) = 90 (multiples of ten)
Self Check-In Kiosks
Typical Applications of TPS
Management Information Systems (MIS)
Sample MIS Report
Decision-Support Systems (DSS)
Voyage-estimating decision-support system
Executive Support System
Relationship of Systems to One Another
Interrelationships among systems
The Order Fulfillment Process
 Lab 2 Preview: Web Technology and HTML

Whats a website? Whats a webpage?

Accessing a website
Client Server

HTML code and tags

Popular HTML editors

Microsoft Expression Web (previously FrontPage)
Adobe Dreamweaver
Google Web Designer