Saudi Electronic University College of Administrative and Financial Sciences E-commerce Department Student

Saudi Electronic University

College of Administrative and Financial Sciences

E-commerce Department

Student Name:

Student ID:

Course Title: Management Information System

Course Code: MIS201

Academic Year/ Semester: 2022/2023- Summer Term

CRN: 50330

Instructor Name: Dr. Eman Alyami

Student Grade:

Grade Level:

Low/ Middle / High

Saudi Electronic University

College of Administrative and Financial Sciences

Assignment of MIS201- Management Information System

MIS201 – Project

Summer Semester 2022-2023

Submission

Part 1

Submission: End of week 3 Saturday 22/07/2023

Part 2

Submission: End of week 5 Saturday 5/08/2023

Part 3

Submission: Week 6 Sunday 6/08/2023

40 Marks

Assignment Details

The project involves studying the IT infrastructure of a relevant information system (IS)/ information technology (IT) used by selecting any organization of your choice locally or internationally

The idea is to investigate the selected organization using the main components of IT (Hardware, software, services, data management and networking). Infrastructure Investigation, which is in a selected industry, should be carried out by using articles, websites, books and journal papers and /or interviews. In the report, you are expected to discuss:

Project Report Structure: Part 2

Submission: End of week 5 Saturday 5/08/2023

Marks: 13 Marks

Analysis of Existing System (5 Marks).

Discuss the Information Systems used within the company (3). Also, Analyze the key problems of the existing system used by the company (2)

Transaction processing systems (TPS) (70-100 words)

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems

Functional Area Information Systems

Business intelligence

DSS

(You can discuss any points that you learned in this course and it’s related to your selected organization)

System Evaluation (2 Marks).

Evaluate the current system (one from Q1) that the company uses with one of the following options (1):

Success

Partial failure/partial success

Total failure

Then, State the reasons for your choice (1)

Suggestions for the company (3 Marks)

Design or choose a system to help the company solve its main problems. State the following:

The new system name (1)

Its features (1)

Problems that will be solved (1)

(You can discuss any points that you learned in this course and it’s related to your selected organization)

Conclusion (2 Marks).(200 words)

Summarize your report (including part 1)

References (1 Mark).

Use APA referencing style format

Guidelines for the assignment:

Make sure to include the cover page with all information required. One mark will be deducted if there is no cover page

This is a group project (2-3 students), which is part of your course score. It requires effort, research, and critical thinking.

Use font Times New Roman, 12 font sizes

Use 1.5 line spacing with adjust to all paragraphs (alignment).

Use the footer function to insert page number.

Ensure that you follow the APA style in your project and references.

The minimum number of required references is 3 for each part (1 and 2).

Your project report length Part 1 should be between 1500 to 2200 words & Part 2 should be between 1000 to 2000 words.

You must check the spelling and grammar mistakes before submitting the assignment.

Up to 20% of the total grade will be deducted for providing a poor structure of assignment (Structure includes these elements paper style, free of spelling and grammar mistakes, referencing and word count).

Assignment must be in Word format only NO PDF

Your file should be saved as Word doc [Example]: [Your Name] [CRN] MIS201 – Project Assignment Part 1.doc

Useful links:

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/studentservices/documents/planning-and-preparing-to-write-assignments.pdf

APA reference system https://student.unsw.edu.au/apa

About plagiarism http://wts.indiana.edu/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml

About plagiarism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism