Athe importnace of information systems are growing. As data is now taking towards a digital form, instead of just a paperbased.hopsitals, use information systems, your data is stored on computers, where every you are in the hospital your details are ready at a few key strokes.a deffiniation is "A system for managing and processing information, usually computer-based. Also, a functional group within a business that manages the development and operations of the business’s information"there good points are the data avaible easiy, but you gotta look at data securtiy and data failure if there is a proble is a considerable risk

ADo your own homework. You might learn something.

AIts in the book. I hope you don't do this for all my questions in class. Caught you ;)

AThey're not the same.IT is refer to an entire industry. Certainly, this industry is the use of computers and software in managing information. While, Information systems are the software and hardware systems that maintain data-intensive applications.

AManagement Information Systems were initially desgined for decision support and were called decision support systems. For an Airline, you can allow reservations through a computer. With the proper MIS software loaded you can gather information like the demography, geographical, labor class wise etc; the different segment using your services more often and can run your mission to cater to their needs and this will improve your customer satisfaction and customer retention. An accounting MIS package can give you information on your performance at the press of a key and help you take decisions faster on how to improve your performance for growth or improved services. You can control your operations to see where you loose money the same way and cut back on unnecessary expenses. You can manage your inventory, food and beverage, seat allocation, luggage information, landing schdules, take off schedules, either in isolation or integrated to take decisions. You can even creates alerts when criticalities are reached where decisions has to be made manually. Rerouting, transferring passengers etc; can be handled usin these decision support systems cost effectively. Finally you can control the payroll, material purchases, marketing decisions etc; using MIS and decision support softwares tailor made for your business.

AThe advantage to the first is that the IS is a tool the business can use. The disadvantage of the second is that changing a successful business model into another successful business model is, at best, extremely difficult. (It's normally the underlying cause of the failure of the business.) Information systems should be designed as a tool that makes it easier to run the existing business, not as an axe to demolish it.

AInformation Systems (IS) is an academic/professional discipline bridging the business field and the well-defined computer science field that is evolving toward a new scientific area of study. An information systems discipline therefore is supported by the theoretical foundations of information and computations such that learned scholars have unique opportunities to explore the academics of various business models as well as related algorithmic processes within a computer science discipline.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_systemsInformation technology (IT) is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications. The term in its modern sense first appeared in a 1958 article published in the Harvard Business Review, in which authors Leavitt and Whisler commented that "the new technology does not yet have a single established name. We shall call it information technology(IT)."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology

AI have found computer world magazine to be a good source of information.

AThe people who upkeep the business's computer systems. Commonly called the IT department. Every corporation hires IS grads.

AI believe that the Computer Information Systems(CIS) is more technical while Information Systems is more business oriented (more focus of the applications of technicial resources to the solving of business problems).I think you choice between these two degrees will be less important than developing some work experience while still in college Also realize, that initially you may be paid more to do technical work, but long term those that focus on the business aspects tend to do better.