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MIS

Definitions, Basic concepts


and frameworks
Definition
MIS is a system that aids management
in making, carrying out and controlling
decisions. MIS consists of people,
equipment and procedure to gather,
sort, analyze, evaluate and distribute
timely and accurate information to the
decision maker.
Nature of MIS
• Report orientation
• Action oriented
• Expectation oriented
• Database oriented
• End-user oriented
Employees

A schematic Corporate
databases
Databases Corporate
of intranet
of
external
internal
data
data Decision
support
systems

Transaction Databases Management Executive


Business processing of information Application support
transactions systems valid systems databases systems
transactions

Drill-down reports Expert


Exception reports systems
Demand reports
Operational Key-indicator reports
databases
Input and Scheduled
error list reports
Inputs to a MIS
• Strategic plan or corporate policies
– Contains major financial objectives and often
projects financial needs.
• Transaction processing system (TPS)
– Important financial information collected from
almost every TPS - payroll, inventory control,
order processing, accounts payable, accounts
receivable, general ledger.
– External sources
– Annual reports and financial statements of
competitors and general news items.
Output of a MIS
• Scheduled reports
• Produced periodically, or on a schedule (daily,
weekly, monthly)
• Key-indicator report
• Summarizes the previous day’s critical activities
• Typically available at the beginning of each day
• Demand report
• Gives certain information at a manager’s request
• Exception report
• Automatically produced when a situation is unusual
or requires management action
Subsystems of MIS
• Financial
• Manufacturing
• Marketing
• Human Resources
• Geographic MISs
Difference - DSS & MIS
DSS MIS
• High Level • Mid – Low Level
• Specific • Universal
• Last level data • Mid level data
manipulation manipulation
• Flexible • Format oriented
• More advanced and • Less advanced and
uses AI (Artificial uses emulated
Intelligence) environment
TPS
A Transaction Processing System is a set of
information which processes the data transaction in
database system that monitors transaction programs. 

•Features
– Rapid response
– Reliability
– Inflexibility
– Controlled processing

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