The Relevance of Information Technology in Business

The increased number of IT investment is applied in organization. It is clear that information technology has become the competitive fact in world business. Collaboration is the new trend in business world. No one can deny the importance of information technology application. Besides the profits outcome, the impacts of information technology deployment also create commitment, trust and value. Advanced information system can improve each steps of business process. It enables people to share information, performance task simultaneously and making decision efficiently. IT companies designed different products to satisfy each step of business operation in terms of manufacturing and human resources. Seminole should apply this new IT infrastructure to business operation. Firstly, company can use the transaction processing systems (IPS) to keep track of all business activities and transaction of the organization such as payroll and employee record keeping. IPS also shows all information from internal and external operation. Secondly, Business intelligence systems are designed for decision-making support. Management information system (MIS) is a system that helps managers to keep track of company performance status, which purposed for decision-making and evaluation. Decision-support system (DSS) is purposed for future business decision-making. Thirdly, Enterprise application systems are designed for integrating business process from different functions, such as supply chain

A business process combines manual and automated tasks that ultimately add measurable value to a product or service. A model for business model diagram of these manual and automated processes is a picture of the business process works as is or should work in the future to be. To develop an effective application that optimally supports the business process. Business process analysis identifies bottlenecks in efficiencies disconnects and other problem areas. Developers need solution functional and non-functional requirements to develop or modifying application. A good business process implementation will increase the visibility of the company’s activities making it easy to monitor and control the critical business processes of the company. It provides management with an increased ability to identify bottlenecks, make improvements that needed and reassigned resources to meet customer demand. It also provides an increased to identify further areas of optimization that will provide customer satisfaction or lower transaction

How information technology can be effectively integrated with company’s "production, marketing, human resource, research design and finance" to take the advantage of core competence, as well as leveraging the quality and speed to help company business continuity.

Information technology is defined as shared technology resources that provide the platform for an organization's specific information system applications. IT deals with the technology involved in the systems themselves. According to our book, it consists of all the hardware and software that a company would need to use in order to achieve its business objectives. This includes not only computer machines, storage devices, and handheld mobile devices, but also software, such as the Windows or Linux operating systems, the Microsoft Office desktop productivity suite, and the many thousands of computer programs that can be found in a typical large firm.

“No longer is IT just another tool the CEO might use to accomplish costs saving and operational ends. Today, information technology can help solve product problems, set new levels of service and create new distribution and communication channels.”

In today’s business environment, companies use integrated information systems to gain competitive advantages. The primary objective of senior management is to generate a 10% profit to reinvest into the enterprise and expand their divisions. Several of Bandon’s competitors have implemented ERP with integrated CRM solutions. In order for Bandon Group, Inc. to compete with businesses such as Xerox, it is necessary to integrate the business applications. According to Monk, Ellen, & Wagner, “increasing information system efficiency often results in the effective management of business processes, which is essential to maximizing profit and sustainable growth” (2009). Bandon Group has common critical problems and issues within the organization today; there are also opportunities and challenges that need to be addressed. The technology department is small and strained. With the range of various technical solutions that have been implemented across the divisions it has become very difficult to provide data migrations, network support, technical support and training (Sumner, 2005). An ERP system can dramatically reduce costs and improve operational efficiency as it removes feudal decision-making and facilitates data integration and transparency between business units

The role of information technology (IT) in the world of business process improvement can take many forms. From an automation standpoint, no one knows more about the subject than the IT professionals within an organization. From the business unit perspective, no one knows more than the department professionals. The article selected for this analysis is titled "Whose is Process Improvement Anyway?" by Meridith Levinson. It describes two separate organizations that utilize IT in their business process improvement strategies. It further describes the hurdles that must be overcome to make IT a leader in business process improvement initiatives.

The possibility of gaining a competitive advantage is one of the biggest roles associated with information systems. A competitive advantage is defined as anything that gives a firm a lead over its rivals. As business processes become major differentiators for organizations in many industries, organizations are increasingly using analytics to “wring every last drop” of value from those processes (Davenport, 2006). Another benefit of Information systems is their ability to improve your productivity. Smartphones have

“Fasten your seat belt; it’ll be quite a ride”, is how Dr. Michael Hammer ended his 1999 article in InformationWeek titled, “Reengineering at Net Speed”. The article focuses on the possibilities the internet will have on business processes and how process reengineering is necessary in “net” age. Dr. Hammer argues that reengineering is necessary with the internet because “automating a mess yields an automated mess”. He argues that a poorly designed process in a traditional business environment will be a poor designed process on the internet as well. He further states that processes will be need to implemented and designed to support the internet model of business. The internet model of business has high customer value access. Customers are able to place orders and check on shipments. Hammer also states the internet has no boundaries. Companies are able to business anywhere in the world due to ubiquity of the

The extranet can give a business new life by providing a self-service channel for partners to complete critical orders and transactions. The extranet is a direct link to the company’s data servers through the internet. This access is beneficial to both parties but also

Another solution to limit the problem of time lags between the different processes is to use flexibility by implementing an enterprise resource system, common for the whole organization. To be more specific, this application could allow customized reporting solutions, responsive to the requirements and needs of each different department. Consequently, time wasted because of different IT systems used in different operations could be drastically reduced. Furthermore, the extra paper work, due to not updated technology systems will be eliminated as well.

Another concept from class is the application of key information technology systems a company will employ that helps them manage these daily operations effortlessly. This can be done with the use of service technology applications, in process technologies applications, and information technology (IT) applications. All three will have a direct bearing on productivity, costs, and effectiveness. While, product and service technologies help the company develop new products, services, and processes. Process technology represents the methods, procedures, and equipment the company will use in order to produce the goods and

Business must endlessly update their systems to keep up with the changes that occurs with their business process. Business processes are continually trying to find many ways to accomplish new and shifting goals for the business. New or shifting goals, such as changing the responsible for a current business process, or combining more than one responsible into one can be difficult and needs a clear understanding of multi-tiered systems and the business processes itself. The absence of connection among requirement and employment can lead to problems in recognizing the suitable program which must be changed to further increase the worthiness of a system in response to the new goals. Unfortunately, these changes can lead to errors and can make take longer than expected.

The present study tries to investigate role of information technology in terms of developing business in Indonesian small medium enterprises. In accordance with that, information technology business values are examined as information technology alignment maturity. Whilst the alignment literatures use a range of approaches to determine the fit between information technology and business (Tallon 2016), this research prefers to use process level alignment to get different perspective. However, this method might deliver result which illustrate not only in process level but also in corporate level view.

The impact of extranet on flows of information around a business and the role of the manager /Benefits