Rania Kaja

Summary:

Information systems have strong positive impacts on the business nowadays. There are a lot of advantages associated with applying information system in any organization. Unfortunately, there are some significant challenges that organization should avoid them in order to maximize their profits.

I chose this topic because it is related to my major and I want to learn more about it. This article was a little bit short, but it covered the most important points of the benefits and challenges of information system in the business environment. Anything in the world has advantages and disadvantages and information system is not an exceptional. Recently, information systems have played an important role in changing the way of business performing. A lot of organizations have changed completely to conduct their work by using the aid of information system so, I want to learn more about this huge turning and its consequences. This movement has a numerous benefits that help to improve businesses such as increasing the level of efficiency, productivity and profitability. In my research, I want to highlight each one of them and how this would affect the company's overall performance. In the article, the author mentioned that, the maintenance of data is very expensive process. I want to read more about this process and find some studies that show how this process is conducting. In addition he mentioned the terms "initial investment" many times and I did not get what exactly he means. In my further reading, I am going to find more about this point. At the end of the article, there is a part about the security and privacy. I want to find more real examples of businesses that suffer of data breach.

New words:

1. Traditional business model
2. Initial investment
3. Data breach