Apple Information System Analysis

Background of the company

First, we should know about the overview of the company that include the impact of information systems in the organisation and its relevance to the different activities undertaken by the company. Apple Inc. was incorporated in 1976 as a computer company in California. Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. Apple Company cares about design of the products and produces a line of personal computers as well as portable digital media devices, software, mobile phones, and related accessories. For example, Apple’s products have Macintosh line of desktop, the iPod digital music player, the Mac OS X operating system, the iTunes Music Store, the Xserve G5 server, and Xserve RAID storage products (http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/31/Apple-Computer-Inc.html

https://prezi.com/zgnj9s4swfox/apple-information-system/ .We choose Apple Inc. which consists major types of information systems. One of the Apple information system is transaction processing system. Transaction processing system automate the handling of data about business transactions like exchanging money to purchase an item. It is basic business systems that serve the operational level of the organization by recording the daily transactions required to operate business. Apple Inc. usually conduct its transactions in many ways such as the cashiers in the Power Mac Store and iTunes application or through an internet browser where consumers purchase products online. Every transactions are recorded via an invoice or an online receipt. Apple Inc. can uses smart phone credit card readers and mobile transaction processing systems. (https://kaurilambert.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/phase-1.pdf ) The goal of transaction processing system development is to improve the process by speeding it up, using fewer people, improving efficiency and accuracy, integrating it with other organizational information

It also serve managers provide the skills of planning, controlling and decision making at the management level. Management information systems involve three basic resources which are technology, information and people. Apple Inc. uses their warranty records and performance or sales records in helping management information systems. It is the system that captures data from transactions, retrieves data from the environment, organizes data and presents them as information to managers. The information is available to managers tied with operational systems to implement the business. For example, Apple Inc. continues to expand its platform for the discovery and delivery of third-party digital content and application through the iTunes Store. Being a part of the iTunes Store, the company’s App Store and iBook store allow customers to download applications and books through either a Mac or through “iOS devices,” which is iPhone, iPad and iPod. In 2011, the Mac App Store had allowed customers to easily download and install applications. Apple Inc. developed third-party software and hardware products and digital content that complement the Apple’s offerings. It expands Apple’s distribution network to effectively achieve more customers and provide a high-quality sales and post-sales support. http://mds.marshall.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1420&context=etd The values that