What is Information systems?
'''Information systems''' (IS) is the study of how people put [[data]] into [[computer]]s to create useful [[information]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wwwmatthes.in.tum.de/wikis/system-cartography/application-landscape|title=Definition of Application Landscape|date=Jan 21, 2009|publisher=Software Engineering for Business Information Systems (sebis)|accessdate=January 14, 2011|archive-date=March 5, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110305011857/http://wwwmatthes.in.tum.de/wikis/system-cartography/application-landscape|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Archibald |first=J.A. |date=May 1975 |title=Computer Science education for majors of other disciplines |journal=AFIPS Joint Computer Conferences |pages=903–906}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Denning |first=Peter |date=July 1999 |title=COMPUTER SCIENCE: THE DISCIPLINE |journal=Encyclopaedia of Computer Science (2000 Edition)}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Coy |first=Wolfgang |date=June 2004 |title=Between the disciplines |journal=ACM SIGCSE Bulletin |volume=36 |issue=2 |pages=7–10 |issn= 0097-8418 |doi=10.1145/1024338.1024340|s2cid=10389644 }}</ref> There are five things you need to make an information system work: *'''People''' - People that are using these computers to do their jobs. *'''Procedures''' - The things people have to DO to do their jobs. *'''Hardware''' - The actual computers that people use to store facts. *'''Software''' - The instructions on these computer screens that tell you how to enter facts into the computer. *'''Data''' - Facts, facts, and more facts in the computer. ==Related pages== * [[Information technology]] ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Information Systems}} [[Category:Knowledge]] [[Category:Computing]] {{tech-stub}}