Disadvantages Of Information System

Information system can be defined as a system that composed of a human and a computer which processes information or termed as input, to produce an outcome which is termed as an output. Within an information system, there is an integrated set of various components for collecting, storing and processing data. In the simplest term to understand, information system (it also can be termed as) is a medium or a platform between an internal user and external user. In the modern arena, the world has been using information systems in their daily lives with or without realizing. Ever since its existence, it has helped work become easier from the simplest daily routine to the most complex business endeavor. Beginning the 21st Century, the rapid growth

Most retail stores nowadays use computer-based information systems for its speed and accuracy in providing data and at a correct level of detail. By comparison, manual system may be time-consuming and unable to attend large volumes of customers or transactions because checking procedures may be tedious and non-error-proof leads to wrong information given. This point supports the verdict that information systems provides greater efficiency and reduces inventory costs. Information system is efficient in conducting work because it is able to process data in pictures, graphics, text and sound as well as numerical data such as customer records and evaluate sale trends. For example, managements use e-mails and video calls to communicate with clients instead of attending meetings, advertisements to promote their products instead of installing kiosks in different places and an online ticketing system to provide ease to customers. Google + has been a major help in management industries also to students because they can upload documents, share them and have access to their partner’s documents. Much like Facebook, every company has a Facebook account so that they can attract more customers and also make a company more available in the

In order to grow, changes happen. An easy example to show an organization’s transformation is through the story of a world-wide known electronic auction house, e-Bay. It starts in 1995 and uses World Wide Web as its user interface and provides service to enable users to put up an item for an ‘auction’ and potential buyers will bid them. The information system records the bids as received and makes them available online. The auction house provides payment, insurance and security to its clients as needed. An advantage on this is that it is conducted ‘on-line’ so, bidders can bid 24 hours a day to make sure he/she is the highest bidders in order to get the item. Such auctions have provided place to sell almost anything. E-bay began by providing a marketplace for toys and stamps and quickly embraced the sale of almost anything such as cameras, cars, jewellery, music instrument and you-name-what. It is now the leading online auction place in the world with a turnover of five billion dollars