• HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT
• DEFINING FEATURES AND COMPONENTS
• RECENT TRENDS OVERSHADOW MIS
• FURTHER READING:

Although management information systems (MISs) vary considerably in scope and function, they are all software applications used to support basic business management activities, such as reporting, planning, and controlling. More broadly, the MIS label is also applied to the computer systems that run this software, but strictly speaking an MIS is considered software rather than hardware. In addition, some corporate information technology (IT) departments are named MIS, and the term may also be used to describe the...