Cis 205

Information Support Systems

Aric J. Croone

CIS 205

October 08, 2010

Wayne Sewell

Information Support Systems is a very important process in the making of a company or business. The role of an information support system is to manage company information through data and common communication with programs such as Microsoft SharePoint, Global Microsoft Exchange and various other means of resources that enables them to provide accurate information to reach a specific goal or mission. Information support systems is used not only from programs such as Excel, which allows personnel to store data that is used, changed and updated daily but also hardware such as Hard drives that allow personnel to store information that enables you to save memory on computers and take information on the go. Through the means of Information Support systems, operations such as inventories and customer tracking are created through the means of internal communication that provides businesses clean and precise data.

From March 2009 until March 2010, I had a chance to experience Information Support Systems and the ways to implement its capabilities throughout my unit and brigade that closed a huge gap in communication from noncommissioned officers and commissioned officers. Many changes I brought up and was allowed to change vastly improved not only my signal communication shop within my battalion but also help me teach many other soldiers who various opinions kept their support system a success. The process that I will be explaining in this paper is examples of how effective a properly explained and designed Information Support System can help improve the continuity of a business such as the communication shop I ran within my battalion. Through explaining how to run an effectively share drive throughout the brigade to managing telecommunication conferences through programs such as Adobe, etc. There’s also some weaknesses such as becoming complacent to actually eliminating personnel...