Types of Systems

 

There are a variety of systems where system analysis would be required. The needs can symbolically be represented in terms of the type or the kind of systems.  The systems can be classified as shown in the table given above.

 

The role of the system analyst to fulfil this requirement is different as compared to the role played by him in the seventies and eighties. The system analyst now has to play the role of a business analyst, technology expert and a consultant, giving a solution to the business needs of the information requirement. The nature of the solution is not of a micro level but a macro level. The information systems' users are more in the middle and the top management and less in the lower level of the organization as their role is taken over by the system itself.