Part 2 book “Information systems today - Managing in the digital world” has contents: Enhancing business intelligence using big data and analytics, enhancing business processes using enterprise information systems, securing information systems, developing and acquiring information systems, and other contents. | 6 Enhancing Business Intelligence Using Big Data and Analytics Preview Today, organizations operate in a global, highly competitive, and rapidly changing environment. A key to effective management is high-quality and timely information to support decision making. Yet, to enhance decisionmaking, this high-quality and timely information needs to be extracted from ever-increasing amounts of structured and unstructured data gathered from a variety of sources. Here, we first describe the need for enhanced decision making, followed by a description of databases and data warehouses, two fundamental components for gaining business intelligence. Then we describe the primary IS MANAGING IN THE DIGITAL WORLD: Intelligence Through Drones O ver the past years, commercially available drones have made great progress; they can recognize obstacles, maintain stable flying posi- tions even under windy conditions, or safely return to their starting position in case of low battery levels. In the robotics lab at the University of Pennsylvania, researchers are hard at work creating flying robots that can sense each other and features of the environment, components utilized by organizations to extract meaning- giving the impression that they have a mind of their ful insights from data. In Chapter 2, “Gaining Competitive own. In one demonstration, a group of eight flying Advantage Through Information Systems,” you learned devices—called quadcopters—rise from the ground in about general types of information systems supporting unison and fly around the room in a carefully orches- organizations’ different decision-making levels and business functions that execute various business processes in order to realize the strategic goals of the organization. trated formation. They then fly through a small window, one by one, and form up on the other side. What is particularly impressive about the devices is that they are autonomous, meaning that other than .
