Sistemas de información:

Practical issues
-examen date
1er parcial 08/03/2019
2do parcial 10/05/2019
Presentación date
22/03/2019 and 26/03/2019
Intermediate assignment
12/04/2019
Final proyect 07/06/2019
Office hours

Monday and Wednesday 10:00-12:00

Jc.gomez@ugto.mx
Office 314
TOPIC 1: What is an information system?

System
A System is set of interacting components, interdependent and/ or interconnected,
forming a complex whole

System purpose
Reason or goal for what the System is created
A system is created for doing something “useful”

Datum :
Symbolic representation (numeric, alphabetic,special,etc) of an attribute or.
Variable: quantitative or quantitative, data entitities, empirical facts or event.

Information: Organized set of processed data--------Data in a context.

Information as part of knowledge: information is the basic for build knowledge about the
word. It is desired and searched by
Persons/organizations for satisfying their need for taking decisions or perform actions.

Feaure of information
 Is produced and used to take decisions.
 Is commercialized/marketed as a commodity
 The ability to use it has had a great impact on the structure of organizations and
industries
 It is studied in several fields
 Communications/informatics
 Economy
 Linguistic
 Philosophy
 Information has a cost