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Applications of MIS
With computers being as ubiquitous as they are today, there's hardly any large business that does not rely extensively on their IT systems. However, there are several specific fields in which MIS has become invaluable.
* Strategy Support
While computers cannot create business strategies by themselves they can assist management in understanding the effects of their strategies, and help enable effective decision-making. MIS systems can be used to transform data into information useful for decision making. Computers can provide financial statements and performance reports to assist in the planning, monitoring and implementation of strategy.
MIS systems provide a valuable function in that they can collate into coherent reports unmanageable volumes of data that would otherwise be broadly useless to decision makers. By studying these reports decision-makers can identify patterns and trends that would have remained unseen if the raw data were consulted manually. MIS systems can also use these raw data to run simulations hypothetical scenarios that answer a range of what if questions regarding alterations in strategy. For instance, MIS systems can provide predictions about the effect on sales that an alteration in price would have on a product. These Decision Support Systems (DSS) enable more informed decision making within an enterprise than would be possible without MIS systems.
* Data Processing
Not only do MIS systems allow for the collation of vast amounts of business data, but they also provide a valuable time saving benefit to the workforce. Where in the past business information had to be manually processed for filing and analysis it can now be entered quickly and easily onto a computer by a data processor, allowing for faster decision making and quicker reflexes for the enterprise as a whole.
Management by Objectives
While MIS systems are extremely useful in generating statistical reports and data analysis they can also be of use as a Management by Objectives (MBO) tool. MBO is a management process by which managers and subordinates agree upon a series of objectives for the subordinate to attempt to achieve within a set time frame. Objectives are set using the SMART ratio: that is, objectives should be Specific, Measurable, Agreed, Realistic and Time-Specific. The aim of these objectives is to provide a set of key performance indicators by which an enterprise can judge the performance of an employee or project. The success of any MBO objective depends upon the continuous tracking of progress. In tracking this performance it can be extremely useful to make use of an MIS system. Since all SMART objectives are by definition measurable they can be tracked through the generation of management reports to be analysed by decisionmakers.
Benefits of MIS
The field of MIS can deliver a great many benefits to enterprises in every industry. Expert organisations such as the Institute of MIS along with peer reviewed journals such as MIS Quarterly continue to find and report new ways to use MIS to achieve business objectives.
Core Competencies
Every market leading enterprise will have at least one core competency that is, a function they perform better than their competition. By building an exceptional management information system into the enterprise it is possible to push out ahead of the competition. MIS systems provide the tools necessary to gain a better understanding of the market as well as a better understanding of the enterprise itself.
Quick Reflexes
As a corollary to improved supply chain management comes an improved ability to react to changes in the market. Better MIS systems enable an enterprise to react more quickly to their environment, enabling them to push out ahead of the competition and produce a better service and a larger piece of the pie. Further information about MIS can be found at the Bentley College Journal of MIS and the US Treasurys MIS handbook, and an example of an organisational MIS division can be found at the Department of Social Services for the state of Connecticut.
CBOSSmis is a comprehensive cross-industrial electronic enterprise resource planning system. The solution enables efficient management of human, productive, financial and information resources, while significantly boosting enterprise performance and efficiency organizing efficient work of all departments in a single information environment and cutting time costs on routine management operations.
CBOSSmis is intended for enterprises with high demands for the reliability of business process automation. Due to its scalability, the system can be successfully used in companies with hundreds or hundreds of thousand of people. The versatile nature of this solution makes it suitable for any regional company or a company with an industry-specific profile, while flexibility and modular architecture ensure easy customization.
System Operation
The main CBOSSmis solutions are: Human Capital CBOSSmis streamlines personnel management: employee and time administration, payroll accounting based on work efficiency, creation of personalized motivation programs and personnel recruitment and development. Productive Capital CBOSSmis enables accounting, planning and regulation of the production process and its results. Financial Capital CBOSSmis supports financial management: financial accounting, fixed assets management, controlling and treasury management. Information Capital CBOSSmis handles corporate knowledge - the key resource of any IT company - and ensures a uniform information environment for aggregation of the following information: o business structure and functions o data collected in course of personnel communication
Key Features
Human Capital Solution Employee Administration module: Dynamic organizational structures and staff lists. Basic personnel management operations: recruitment, shift, promotion and dismissal. Registers of positions, preparation of instructions and divisional regulations. Electronic personal files and workbooks Customizable parameters of accounting data Social records, registration of information on the family status and members of employees families. Employee military registration Retirement records Comprehensive human resource accounting regulated by the legislation of the Russian Federation.
Time Administration module: Registration of employees working time by management of employees themselves (check in, check out, absence) including real time registration. Generation of any number of working schedules of any complexity, control of schedule compliance including notifications of departures from schedules, sent to managers and auditors. Timesheets for working schedules. Electronic check points, registration of working time with the help of touch screens and hardware identification tools (devices) of the security system. Employees working time audit: registration of all events associated with departures from working schedules and non-typical events (e.g. an employee working in the office during vacations or a business trip). Pre-registration (including registration by the employees), planning and registration of long-term absence: business trips, holidays, sick leaves or days off. It is possible to configure rules for the automatic calculation of available holiday duration. Setting the norm of working time and registration of working hours for all employees. Optional automatic generation of working hour timesheets at the end of a reporting period.Comprehensive reporting on the administration of employees working hours, regulated by the legislation of the Russian Federation.
Payroll module: Wage fund creation and distribution, hierarchical budgeting Calculation of repeated and one-time credits and debits, including compensations for holidays and sick leaves. Control of wage taxation: registration of taxes and the tax base scale, configuration of tax concessions and exemptions, generation of tax reporting. Employees can control their account balance any time. Distribution of access to the information on wages, employees account balance and fund accounts. Staff encouragement: reward or penalty wage points that can be taken into account during payroll preparation. Support of various types of accounts including accounts for credit/deposit settlements with employees. Provision of credits/deposits and credit repayment. The module enables settlements with employees for the services provided by the company and charges employees accounts. Internal encouragement programs (e.g. the companys Partner Program). The system can be used to create lists of candidates, to vote about revenue distribution or to calculate vote results. Streamlining of the creation and distribution of projects bonus funds.
Personnel Development Module: Flexible configuration and automatic testing of employees and candidates professional skills and personal requirements. Management of internal (employees) and external (potential employees and customer representatives) training process and cycles. Registration of information on professional skills and personal qualities of employees (it is possible to evaluate individual qualities or groups of personal qualities to create a complete psychological portrait). Position compliance test. Overall organization of recruitment: storing all initial data on the candidate (personal details, education, work experience, etc.), planning the sequence of interviews, registering results of interviews and position compliance test.
The system supports multi-criteria selection of the executor based on employees functional duties and additional parameters such as workload, cost, holidays, work experience, personal details and skills. Preparation of aggregated and detailed reporting on the tasks.
Flexible financial and management reporting, automated preparation of the balance sheet, profit and loss statement and other accounting reports.
Catalogs of functions for departments and employees. Catalogs of personnel functions. Search of employees with particular functional duties.
Office Communication module: Standard email functions, i.e. exchange of messages and attached documents between employees. Folders for storing letters and access permissions for various users. Creation and storage of drafts. Automatic event-based notification. Any notification contains a link to the application that has triggered it. Support of office memos and other documents that need to be signed by one or several persons. Complete registration and storage of contact details for the whole company and individual employees. Publication and storage of regulatory documents and managers and employees notifications on advertisement boards. Hierarchical structuring of advertisement boards, distributing access and ensuring that advertisements are read by the personnel. Registration of all events that take place in the company. Notifications about their arrangements and realization are sent to persons concerned. Automatic registration of employees who agreed or refused to participate in the event. Registration of all office facilities of the company and search according to the requirements for facility reservation. Calculation of facility usage costs taking into account various modifiers. Personal scheduling and graphical representation of schedules. Confidentiality of personal and classified information with access to information on the employees workload. Routing of messages for memo approval and complete office memo lifecycle. New memo templates can be created. Creation of the companys address database with flexible distribution of access to the stored structured information on the companys external and internal contacts.
Benefits
Integrity: the system integrates main business operation support functions and supports compatibility of embedded solutions. Convergence: solutions and modules process heterogeneous data uniformly. Enterprise-wide cooperation, B2E (business-to-employee) features, self-service and joint usage of system capacities, even in companies with large subsidiary networks. Access distribution: information protection mechanisms supporting hierarchical enterprise structures and automatic logging of all operations performed by the system. Multilanguage support: data may be presented in reports and screen forms in any language. Real time operation. Lower total cost of IT ownership for telecom companies, due to: o Cost saving on the hardware - CBOSSbcc Billing & Customer Care and CBOSSmis are installed on a single server
integration with CBOSSbcc - joint usage of data by CBOSSbcc and CBOSSmis enables uniform administration, support and training for system users.
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Management information systems provide decision-makers information and feedback on daily operations. Additionally, management information systems can be used strategically, often incorporating Web technology.
Strategic plan and corporate policies The TPS External sources: o The competition o The market
Marketing research o Web based market research Product development Promotion and advertising Product pricing
Strategic plan or corporate policies The TPS: o Payroll data o Order processing data o Personnel data External sources
Human resource planning Personnel selection and recruiting Training and skills inventory Scheduling and job placement Wage and salary administration
Other MISs
Accounting MISs o Provides aggregated information on accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, and other applications. Geographic information systems (GISs) o Enables managers to pair pre-drawn maps or map outlines with tabular data to describe aspects of a particular geographic region.
Airport Operations
Achieve operational excellence in all aspects of your ground operations, from IT to human resource management In the complex machinery of ground operation, each component must function reliably at all times. Our industry solutions ensure this with real-time information, failure safety and intelligent data transmissions - to help you achieve operational excellence in all aspects of your ground operations, from IT to human resource management.
UFIS: The Universal Flight Information System Collaborative Airport IT Suite Smart Airport IT Suite: IT solution for small airports Airport Hub & Ground Management Flight Information Display Systems (FIDS) User Help Desk
UFIS is a registered trademark of our solution partner "UFIS Airport Solutions GmbH"
management. And it opens up another revenue source by letting you provide applications to external users in return for a fee. The solution comprises industry-specific applications from SAP, UFIS Airport Solutions and ISO Software Systems. We customize it to meet your needs and ensure prompt implementation and reliable operation. Smart Airport IT Suite: Lean solution for small and medium-sized airports For small and medium-sized airports, we have put together a particularly costeffective package: the Smart Airport IT Suite. This compact solution covers all airport processes. It comprises many widely used versions such as AODB, FIMS, FIDS, CUTE, DCS, Billing, BRS and Weight & Balance and can be expanded at any time should the need arise.
Major benefits
Consistently efficient and seamlessly linked processes Access to the latest accurate data and reports at any time More planning reliability Better service quality Significant cost reductions Basis for multi-airport management
Major benefits
Consistently efficient and seamlessly linked processes Access to the latest accurate data and reports at any time More planning reliability Better service quality Significant cost reductions
Major benefits
Quick integration into existing infrastructures Low installation and operating costs Cost reduction Easy-to-understand visualization Expandability Suited for small and large airports alike
Assess Risk
People have a legal right to be protected from harm caused by a failure to take reasonable protective measures. As an employer, you must assess and manage risks, whether from fire, or to health and safety. Accidents and ill health can have a devastating effect on our lives and our businesses. A risk assessment is an important tool in protecting your workers and your business. It helps you focus on those risks that have the potential to cause harm. In simple terms it is an assessment of what in your workplace, could cause harm to people. You need to think about who may be harmed, and how that may happen. It can be very easy to miss things in an environment with which you are very familiar, so it is important to carefully focus upon the task in an impartial way. Legislative compliance requires you to document your findings if you employ 5 or more persons. However in practice, it is always useful to maintain a record of your assessment and findings, even if you employ less than 5. Riskmonitor specialises in providing practical, sensible and cost effective solutions whether your organisation is large or small. The risk assessment process via RAMIS is both a comprehensive yet a very straightforward one. Although tailored to meet your specific needs this is never at the cost of legislative compliance. Completed reports are available to relevant personts instantly via the internet or intranet. They are available either electronically or in printed form, either in full, or specific parts. Whatever your needs, the choice is yours.
Health & Safety Fire Safety Disabled Access Asbestos Environmental Auditing Legionella and Water Testing Food Hygiene Security Business Continuity Stock Condition Surveys
The responsibility for implementing the policies and procedures of a company (other than where it is a very small one), will involve a number of individuals and groups. As an example, a Safety Policy will contain, amongst its other constituent parts, the arrangements for its implementation and communication to all members of the workforce. That is to say it briefly sets out who is responsible for the various parts of the Policy, and what is expected of them. This will ultimately involve everyone in the organisation, all of whom must take ownership at their particular level. This will ensure that the aims and objectives for securing a safe and healthy working environment, as set out in your Safety Policy, are both achieved and maintained. However it must be appreciated that responsibilities may vary in line with each individuals position within the company. Those in supervisory and managerial positions will have added responsibilities for health and safety, because they manage people. It is they who will need to take the lead role in this particular part of the process, not only by monitoring implementation but interpreting and advising also. Everyone with a defined responsibility must be aware of it, and of what is expected of them, in order that they can fulfill it. This can sometimes be difficult to put into practice as there are a great many things to consider and to then instigate. Yet, the need for an enthusiastic and professional approach, which conveys the keenness of the management and supervisors cannot be over emphasized. This conveys at the outset the intent of the company they represent to develop a positive culture, and motivates others to follow. Riskmonitor can help with any and every part of this extremely important element of successful health and safety within the workplace. RAMIS is a powerful and professional tool which signals the intent of management in a definite and positive manner. Its ease of use will readily appeal to those on the functional side of risk assessment. The immediacy of the information it provides will appeal greatly to everyone in a managerial or supervisory role. At Director or Board level the availability of reports and information, will ensure that the right people are aware of the progress that is being made, and/or of any needs that must be addressed.
Communication and training are key in ensuring that all the efforts put in to health and safety in the workplace really work. Effective communication will assist in developing a positive culture. It keeps people informed, and conveys the intent of management to encourage ownership and responsibility, at all levels of the workforce. Direction and clarity of communication are both vital, in developing and maintaining an enthusiastic attitude toward health and safety. How and what you convey to your workforce matters, as does how often you do it. It is also important that the role of training within the context of communication is appreciated. Health and safety law says:
employees must be trained and clearly instructed in their duties; employers and host companies must ensure contractors are properly trained to work safely.
Everyone who works for you needs to know how to work safely, and without risks to health. So you need to train them, to be sure they know what hazards and risks they may face, and how to deal with them. However, in addressing the issue, even the more obvious statements such as staff must be trained can be difficult to fully comprehend, for example;
Who is to be trained (this will vary greatly depending upon your Policy)? What training is required (it should reflect Policy rather than be a generic fix)? Some employees may have particular training needs, for example o new recruits o people changing jobs or taking on extra responsibilities o young employees who are particularly vulnerable to accidents o health and safety representatives Who will deliver the training are they competent? How will trainee competence be measured and recorded? How will the training be used to improve performance? How often should I train my people?
These are amongst the issues that will require to be addressed. Riskmonitor can assist you in all, or any part of the communication and training process, via our team of trained professionals. With RAMIS, information is readily obtainable to those who need it. More than that, it is instantly available and always current. If currency is not being maintained, or progress made, it can tell you so. It simplifies and readily supports an effective communication policy.
all people, machines and activities aimed at the gathering and processing of data to supply the information need of people inside and outside the organization.