Many companies have entire departments devoted to managing, maintaining and configuring their management information systems. MIS began in the late 1960s and really gained ground in the 1990s. Because ...

A business computer system that responds to transactions by immediately updating the appropriate databases. Real-time information systems generate a response fast enough to prevent human operators ...

The World Bank's definition of a financial management information system, or FMIS, is simply the automation of financial operations. With that definition in mind, there are plenty of database ...