STUDY OF MIS SYSTEM IN INFOSYS

Presented by Sarath j Raghavendran c Vigneshwar s Sangeetha s

Defenition

Management information Systems (MIS), sometimes referred to as Information Management and Systems, are the discipline covering the application of people, technologies, and procedures collectively called information systems to solving business problems.

The MIS Department:

The Information Systems Department is responsible for the coordination and strategic planning of information system technology for all departments under the Board of Country Commissioners. This includes management of a multi-participant Geographic Information/Land Management System (GIS), coordination and support of the County's Project/Work Manageme nt software, the enterprise basedOracle Business suite and the establishment of progressive technical standards in an open system environment. The department is also responsible for the installation and maintenance of telecommunication systems and network facilit ies used by the county enterprise.

MIS The Infosys Perspective:

All organizational learning is lever agedin delivering business advantage to the customer. As with MIS the organization becomes easily approachable and transparent to customer. Every related person must have the full backing of the organizations information behind him/her Customer fronting Planning and decision-making Internal customer service Nothing but an effective MIS can do this.

MIS Drivers in Infosys:

Better quality because of better information support and better decision making. Better Revenue Productivity (reuse, cycle time reduction, virtual teamwork). Every person retains knowledge of inventory and the products. Reduced Risk (diversify into new technologies, domains, geographical areas, services, resource interchangeability). Information about market trends, competitor activities is readily available. Greater Market Awareness Higher Revenue Growth. All of the above factors will combine to increase revenue.

The MIS Vision:

By implementing MIS the Infosys wants to be an organization where every action is fully enabled by the power of information; which truly believes in leveraging knowledge for innovation; where every employee is empowered by the information of every other employee; which is a globally respected information leader.

MIS Challenges in Infosys:

Promote a sharing culture. As through MIS information of each person will be available to every other person. Build and sustain momentum. After the huge efforts of implementing MIS the organization must gain increase revenues. Deploy IT infrastructure. To implement MIS the whole system has to be made online. Ensure quality of content. The information provided by the system must be relevant and up to date.

Evolution of MIS at Infosys :

MIS is supposed to start at 1992 at Infosys, when it became a body of knowledge by increase in popularity. After that the progress just went on and on. 1992: Body of Knowledge 1993:1994:1995: Technical bulletin, online learning 1996: Companywide Intranet (Sparsh) 1997: Marketing system, process assets 1998: Project leaders toolkit 1999: People Knowledge Map, organization wide KM initiative 2000: Integrated shop portal

Various steps being taken by MIS Management of Infosys:

Seminars and best practice sessions Marketing systems Process Assets & Capability Baselines Body of Knowledge On-line learning mechanisms Odyssey Project Leaders tool-kit Sparsh: the company-wide intranet Personal pages Technical Bulletin Board People-Knowledge Map

An Example KMS at Infosys:

Knowledge management is important to software engineering because organizations need mor e than just human capital to successfully distribute and use their employees' knowledge. Knowledge might be inexpensive, but effectively using and managing is not. Infosys Technologies KM vision is to be an organization where every action is fully enabled by the power of knowledge; which truly believes in leveraging knowledge for innovation; where every employee is empowered by the knowledge of every other employee; which is a globally respected knowledge leader.

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