List and describe the information system of the major functional areas of a business?

Answer 1

As the major functional areas in many companies are composition of the production/operations, marketing, human resources, accounting, and finance departments, traditional information systems are designed within each functional area to support the area by increasing its internal effectiveness and efficiency. However, as some traditional information systems hierarchical might differed from others, smaller systems, integrated/independent, interfacing, and support at different levels are shared major characteristics they have in common. As reference the makeup, a functional information system consists of several smaller information systems that support specific activities performed in the functional area. As integrated or independent, where it is portray that a specific IS applications in any functional area can be integrated to form a coherent departmental functional system, from where they can be integrated across departmental lines to match a business process or be completely independent. In similar respect, functional information systems may interface internally with each other to form the organization-wide information system or externally systems outside the organization, hence support the three levels of an organization's activities: operational, managerial, and strategic (Turban et al., 2006, p. 248-249). Researched and posted by Bryan H.