How does a business communicate, plan and decide? There are many methods, but they're collectively known as information systems – how a business gets information, and what it decides to do with it.

Improving the information systems provisioning process at Partners Healthcare has been about knocking down walls between teams as much as breaking down silos of information, Scott MacLean, deputy CIO ...

Understanding offline processes is as important to managing technical systems as knowing how to manipulate, transmit and store electronic data. A mix of computer science and business management ...

In the early days of computers, many people were suspicious of their ability to replace human beings performing complex tasks. The first business software applications were mostly in the domain of ...

For many years, the “Information Systems Design, Implementation, or Integration” interpretation (ET §1.295.145) in the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct provided guidance for information system ...

The World Bank's definition of a financial management information system, or FMIS, is simply the automation of financial operations. With that definition in mind, there are plenty of database ...