Explanation

An Information System is the system of persons, data records and activities that process the data and information in a given organisation, including manual processes or automated processes. Commonly the expression Information system is associated with computer based information systems. These can be used in a wide variety of ways in different organisations.
In recent years, information and technology is one important resource available to executives for shaping an organisation. Any organisation has and uses some types of information systems. These may be based on computers, or they can be completely manual information systems. Information systems are one important tool for management of companies and can have different use and functionality depending on the type of industry/business.

Application/Usage in Indisputable KEY

One important target for Indisputable KEY is to ensure access to applications that returns traceability data on some item. This information is to be automatically transmitted between the applications and the information systems. Alternatively the information must be re-keyed into different parts of the information system. The information should ideally be made available to any information system used in Indisputable KEY. By developing and using a communication standard – the data will be transferred seamlessly between applications and information systems. This will also enable further use of the data as they can be exchanged between different information systems and analysed for different purposes.
Traceability applications will publish data which can be subscribed by an information system that will use the data for example to update the inventory.

Institutions with teaching capabilities

Information system is a large concept, which is found in a lot of particular domains.
ENITAB (Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs des Travaux Agricoles of Bordeaux) (France) proposes different courses about Geographic Information System and traceability applied in agriculture and viticulture.

Available text books and training material

There are a lot of books more or less general about Information System.
Software Architecture in Practice (SEI Series in Software Engineering), Len Bass, Paul Clements, Rick Kazman. ISBN-13: 978-0321154958

“ Handbook on Architectures of Information Systems ”, Peter Bernus, Kai Mertins, Günter Schmidt 2005: comprehensive overview of architectures, languages, methods, and techniques for modelling and analysing information systems in organisations. Numerous approaches are surveyed coming from computer science, information systems, and business administration among others. This volume brings together more than 30 contributions in order to provide a reference source for problem solvers in business, industry, and government, and which can be used by professional researchers and graduate students.

“ Managing Information Systems ” - An Organisational Perspective”, David Boddy, Albert, Boonstra, Graham Kennedy, 2005: this book presents an organisational approach to the management of information systems - covering their foundations, strategies, organisation and implementation. It focuses on integrating information systems into other business functions. A companion website accompanies this text.