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An information system is a set of interacting components – people, procedures, and technologies – that together collect, process, store, and distribute information to support control, decision-making and management in organizations. The information system contains information about the organization itself, for example, the state of its internal operations, and about its environment, for example, information about customers, suppliers, and competitors. Without an information system an organization would not survive. This does not mean that the information system must use information technologies in the form of computers and communication networks. There are other forms of information system. Organizations have always needed information systems, although the formal aspects of these information systems would have been implemented using paper-based filing systems in the pre-IT era.

Typically, information systems serve four major organizational levels:......

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