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We are currently learning about information systems, and ITUNES is used as an example.

1) Who should be involved in the development of the necessary information systems (top management, middle managers, User, IS professionals), and what roles should each group of people play for the project(s)?
- pay attention to which group in the company - marketing, sales, accounting, finance, software-IT dev groups should be involved in creating the solution.
- There are 5 categories of data that they need to maintain in order to function efficiently as an online music store

2) Who will be the suppliers for iTunes? What kinds of collaborations would be necessary for a business such as this? What would be the elements (applications) of their information systems?
- describe the elements in details
- a half page answer for this

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- Who should be involved in the development of the necessary information systems (top management, middle managers, User, IS professionals), and what roles should each group of people play for the project(s)?
- pay attention to which group in the company - marketing, sales, accounting, finance, software-IT dev groups should be involved in creating the solution.
- there are 5 categories of data that they need to maintain in order to function efficiently as an online music store

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?"

-R.L.Stevenson
An appendage to this could be to add, "Where is the knowledge we have lost in data?" Truly with the explosion of IT the amount of data at one's disposal is enormous and the challenge is now to harness the power of knowledge hidden in the collage of data. Thus effective information system should take the inputs and deliver output to all the functional areas of the business. The important information requirements for various departments of online music store is as follows:

SALES DEPARTMENT

Sales department manager will require the information on the credit worthiness of the customer. She will require credit analysis of each customer, information on outstanding from each customer, information on what performance of each market segment (customer wise, region wise etc.) as compared to the last year. The information on the performance of each product. Which product is profitable! Comparison of profits from the last year. She will use the Balance Sheet and the customer ledgers to know the Customer Outstanding and for the credit analysis. She will use the Income statement to know the sales performance from each segment.
A Management accounting report called Sales analysis report can be prepared. It will contain key customer information, sales to each customer, customer outstanding. Segment report: Customer wise and Region wise and the ...

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