Assignment #1 (SAD)

Deadline of the assignment will be on monday june 29, 2009.
email me the answer: my email is mary.ann.faustino@gmail.com
the subject should be: assign#1_SAD_STI(family name)

1. Describe the potential links between transaction processing and management information systems. For example, consider an order processing system and a sales analysis system. How would these two systems be related to each other? List the pieces of data in this order processing system that might be used in the sales analysis system. Describe how these pieces of data would be used in the sales analysis system. Would these pieces of data take on new form in the sales analysis system or would they remain the same? Why or why not? What would happen if these two systems were designed independently of each other?

2. Visit an office in your university or in another organization that uses an office automation system. What information processing functions does this system possess? Which ones do people use regularly? Which functions do you believe are under-utilized and why?