MIS And The Systems Analysis

 

Systems analysis plays a central role in the development of the MIS.  Since the MIS is a conglomerate of the various systems, a systematic approach in its development helps in achieving the objective of  the MIS.  Each system within the MIS plays a role which contributes to the accomplishment of the MIS objective.

 

The tools of the systems analysis and the methods of development enforce a discipline on the designer to follow the steps strictly as stipulated. The possibility of a mistake or an Inadvertence is almost ruled out. The success of MIS lies in meeting the information needs of the various personnel in the organization across all levels of the management.  The systems analysis with its structural analysis and design approach ensures an appropriate coverage of the sub-systems.  The data entities and attributes are considered completely keeping in view the needs of the system in question and their interface with other systems.

 

The systems analysis begin with the output design which itself ensures that the information needs are considered and displayed in the appropriate report or screen format.  The subsequent design steps (viz., input process, procedure designs are taken to fulfil these) needs.

 

The MIS may call for an open system design. In such a case while making the systems analysis and design, the aspect of open system design is In such a case while making the systems analysis and design. The users actively come out with their requirements automatically ensuring that the user's needs are met more precisely.

 

The systems analysis and design, as a tool of the MIS development, helps in streamlining the procedures of the Company to the current needs of the business and information objectives.  New transactions, new documents, new procedures are brought in to make the systems more efficient before it is designed.

 

An emerging model of the MIS is with the data bases stored in the back-end servers and the front end users having access to it to manipulate the data to the current requirement.  Since the data and information processing becoming more and more like the natural language processing, the role of the systems analyst is more toward data generation, storage and its management in terms of quality, status, access and usage.

 

The development methodology may be the conventional design of data, databases and files approach or object oriented analysis and design approach, the MIS design is same. The difference is in the development cycle time, quality of information, efficiency of design and the ease of maintenance of the system.