Information systems specialists focus on integrating information technology solutions and business processes to meet the information needs of businesses and other enterprises, enabling them to achieve their objectives in an effective, efficient way. [ Information Systems focuses on the information aspects of information technology.]
CSU's Information Systems track:
Management Information Systems:
The following information and graph is referenced from acm.org Computing Curricula 2005
The shaded portion in Figure 2.5 represents the Information Systems discipline. The shaded area extends across most of the top-most level because IS people are concerned with the relationship between information systems and the organizations that they serve, extending from theory and principles to application and development. Many IS professionals are also involved in system deployment and configuration and the training of users. The area covered by IS dips downward, all the way through software development and systems infrastructure in the right half of the graph. This is because IS specialists often tailor application technologies (especially databases) to the needs of the enterprise, and they often develop systems that utilize other software products to suit their organizations’ needs for information.
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