Terminologies

Decision support system

An information system including knowledge based systems that support decision making activities or provides information to help make decision rather than automating decisions.

Executive Information System

An information system that intended to facilitate and support the planning and assessment needs of senior executives by providing easy access to both internal and external information relevant to meeting the strategic goals of the organization Expert System

Expert System

An information system that captures the expertise of workers and attempts to reproduce the performance of one or more human experts, most commonly in a specific problem domain, and is a traditional application and/or subfield of artificial intelligence.

Terminologies

Information system

An arrangement of people, data, processes, communications, and information technology that interact to collect, process, store and provide as output the information needed to support an organization

Management Information system

An information system that provides for management-oriented reporting based on transaction processing an operation of the organization

System development life cycle

A set of activities, methods, best practices, deliverable and automated tools that stakeholders se to develop and maintain information system

Transaction Processing System

An information system that automate the handling of data; captures and processed data about business transactions such as orders, timecards, payments and reservations