Information system

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An Information System (IS) is a system composed of people and computers that processes or interprets information.

The term is also sometimes used in more restricted senses to refer to only the software used to run a computerized database or to refer to only a computer system.

Information systems

Information systems is an academic study of systems with a specific reference to information and the complementary networks of hardware and software that people and organizations use to collect, filter, process, create and distribute data.

Characteristics

Information systems typically includes:

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