Video one in a series of support videos for National 4/5 Computing Science course in Scotland. This video introduces the concept of an Information System for the Information Systems Design and Development Unit.
If this helps anyone, information systems compromises of three parts. - Business Processes (Goal-oriented activities conducted by a business) - People (The actors who interact in a business process) - Information technology (Hardware/software used to facilitate business activities). They all work together to realize business objectives and are balanced/maintained for the good of all the actors and the business as a whole.
An IS consists of hardware, system software, data, and applications. Organizations primarily use the information derived from the traditional, automated information systems for internal decision-making to reduce uncertainty. More recently, narrow Artificial Intelligence, such as Machine Learning, has applied IT not only to process and provide data but also to create new information.
