What is the difference between management information, decision support system and expert systems?
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They can all be the same but management information is typically structured data about a business.  Decision support would be data specific to a specific business problem and expert systems would be an ongoing system used to provide answers to a business process such as underwriting insurance policies.
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You need to find a person who knows both systems very well. \n\nUnfortunately, such a person probably doesn't exist.  Most people specialize in one or the other, and most M$ geeks only know M$ (sorry, but that's the truth).\n\nWorse yet, what is "better" overall might not work for your company.  For instance, I upgraded a client from an old version of Peachtree to a new one (better!) but we had to cancel that when we found out that the newer Peachtree had a limitation that we couldn't work around (worse!).\n\nEither system will probably work.  I don't like the fact that any M$ financial software locks me into M$ products, usually their latest-greatest only (so you have to upgrade Office, Exchange, etc when you upgrade the accounting software).  Oracle will probably run on servers of various platforms, which might be nice.  \n\nYour success will depend greatly on the people who do your install and configuration and migration and training.  Choose VERY carefully -- they will be de facto a part of your staff for years.\n\nAny accounting software change is hell... tell you accounting people that it will be at least a year of hell, during which time they'll develop drug and alcohol habits.  That way, when they only complain for 6 months you can tell them that you're ahead of schedule and the project is exceeding expectations.  I'm serious about this -- otherwise, people (like the computer guy) will get fired at the 3-4 month mark!!!!
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In the corporate world knowledge management is the organized collection of documents, procedures, policies, instructions, etc of "knowledge".\n\nFor example, in an Operations organization, the knowledge management may include documents related to how to troubleshoot various computer/server issues, documentation on how a certain feature or product works, escalations for different areas, etc.\n\nIt's basically a brain dump of everyone organized electronically. If someone who is a new hire who knows nothing about the organization looks through the documents...he/she should be able to understand how things work and what to do when things break.
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management accounting is concerned with providing internal information for running a company.\n\nfinancial accounting is more for public consumption to convey business results.\n\ntax accounting is, you guessed it, to deal with paying the evil taxes.
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Expert System: \n\nA computer program that contains a\nknowledge base and a set of algorithms or rules that infer\nnew facts from knowledge and from incoming data.\n\nAn expert system is an artificial intelligence application\nthat uses a knowledge base of human expertise to aid in\nsolving problems. The degree of problem solving is based on\nthe quality of the data and rules obtained from the human\nexpert. Expert systems are designed to perform at a human\nexpert level. In practice, they will perform both well below\nand well above that of an individual expert.\n\nThe expert system derives its answers by running the knowledge base through an inference engine, a software program that interacts with the user and processes the results from the rules and data in the knowledge base.\nExpert systems are used in applications such as medical\ndiagnosis, equipment repair, investment analysis, financial,\nestate and insurance planning, route scheduling for delivery\nvehicles, contract bidding, counseling for self-service\ncustomers, production control and training.
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Issue-Based Information Systems (IBIS) are meant to support\ncoordination and planning of political decision processes. IBIS guides the identification, structuring, and settling of issues raised by problem-solving groups, and provides information pertinent to the discourse. It is linked to conventional documentation systems but also activates other sources. Elements of the system are topics, issues, questions of fact, positions, arguments, and model problems. The logic of issues, the subsystems of IBIS, and their rules of operation are\noutlined. Three manually operated versions of IBIS are in experimental operation by governmental agencies;  computerization of system operations is in preparation.
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Management can be loosely defined as the methodologies and myriad of systems used to "manage" or "control" a business, organisation or a project/task.\n\nThere are many differing styles and philosophies of management, some of which can be contradictory. For example, many businesses/companies use a traditional "hierarchical" style of management that focuses on managing the business "from the top down" without giving much power over decision-making and direction to employees lower in the company. There are other businesses/companies that take a more open or "democratic" approach to management that tends to value input from lower levels of the company and often incorporates such input when making important decisions about company direction or strategy. Creative businesses such as games developers or design companies often adopt the latter style of management.\n\nManagement covers a very wide range of issues/factors that are relevant in achieving "good" management and include areas such as Ethics & Leadership, Human Resource Management, Finance & Accounting, Marketing & Public and/or Internal Relations, Operations Management, etc.\n\nAs you can see, Accounting is just one part of Management and deals with the recording and reporting of financial data in relation to the business, organisation or project. Accounting is important because it is needed for tax purposes and for other legal obligations but also because it is through good accounting that the managers of an entity can see and understand where their business is currently at and where it might be headed. Accounting is one of the more "objective" methods of evaluating or analysing a business and its weak and strong points and depending on how good or bad the accounting is, can be an important factor (but certainly not the only factor) in the success or failure of a company or project.
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The difference can be found in the words. Developement is to grow and make more efficient (or better in laymens)\n\nTo manage is to control. You can mix these together for your best business results.\n\nIf you only manage, you likely will never grow, because development is required to create growth and make your business or office do it's best. You learn and grow, manage along the way.  Hope this is helpful.
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It's kind of a phased approach where one item follows another. It's general to software methodologies and not really specific to BI. There's a good diagram and some discussion in the link below.
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Garden is completely off.  Business Intelligence is an industry.  This industry is the industry that takes raw data and turns it into information for business users to make effective decisons.
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Intelligence database, or Business Intelligence, or Data Warehousing, as it used to be known, holds key business data for a company.\n\nThe reports are specific to the type of data that is held in the database.  For example, if you are a pharmacy, and your BI (DW) database holds your customers, scripts, locations, providers, and drugs, then your reports can give anything from usage of specific drugs by date, or customer usage by location, or provider volume by location, etc.\n\nIt's all about the data.\n\nWhat you get out of a DW database is dependent on the quality and type of data you put in, and the tools you use to access it.
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Management Information Systems were initially desgined for decision support and were called decision support systems. For an Airline, you can allow reservations through a computer. With the proper MIS software loaded you can gather information like the demography, geographical, labor class wise etc; the different segment using your services more often and can run your mission to cater to their needs and this will improve your customer satisfaction and customer retention. An accounting MIS package can give you information on your performance at the press of a key and help you take decisions faster on how to improve your performance for growth or improved services. You can control your operations to see where you loose money the same way and cut back on unnecessary expenses. You can manage your inventory, food and beverage, seat allocation, luggage information, landing schdules, take off schedules, either in isolation or integrated to take decisions. You can even creates alerts when criticalities are reached where decisions has to be made manually. Rerouting, transferring passengers etc; can be handled usin these decision support systems cost effectively. Finally you can control the payroll, material purchases, marketing decisions etc; using MIS and decision support softwares tailor made for your business.
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intelligence means you can solve a complicated problem.\n\nwisdom means you know which problem to solve.
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Management is the function of planning , organising, staffing, leading and controlling of an organization resources. Resources mainly consists of Money , Man and Material and the last one is impotant being the part of resources. Material management bring s efficiency and effectiveness and thus is important in todays globalisation , It reduces your cost and increase ultimately your profit and having so meand prosperity in business.
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Just go into detail on what applications are used by which department.\n\nEg.  computerised accounts package - accounts \n\npurchase ordering - purchasing/stores\n\nSales - sales staff\n\nMOS - IT\n\ngeneral office applications - admin\n\nOr you could go into the types of systems that employees and management use at different levels:\n\nTransaction Process Systems - Supervisors\nManagement Information Systems - department heads\nExecutive Information systems - Senior management.  \n\nTry these pages for more information: \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_Processing_Systems\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_information_system\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_Support_System\n\nHope this helps!  x
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I can't help you with the survey map, but I can tell you that an expert system is a computer program designed to ask a sequence of questions about a problem and then somehow provide a solution for it based on the answers. For example, a medical expert system might ask for details about a patient's temperature, pulse rate, blood pressure and other symptoms and then try and use the answers to predict what disease the patient has.
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Well.. Information System(IS) is far lot more complicated than IT for me. IS is usually the combination of our knowledge of IT, management, and other related e-business. You analyze a certain problem in a company and gives solution thru planning, data gathering, data analysis, objectives and such. After that you will be designing a system applying what you have researched. \n\nIf you master as major in IS then you might end up as a consultant who gives business strategies to the company. Other than that, rare people have this knowledge such as bill gates, steve jobs are considered as having those knowledge as an entrepreneur who were able to be more innovative and competitve at the same time.\n\nLet me guess you have accounting subjects? Visual Basic? Delphi? Networking and such? Anyway Good Luck! you can do it! Just believe in yourself. But if you don't like the course then you better shift to the course you like. You will not enjoy your life if you don't like your job. ;)