Abstract
Business managers are moving from a tradition where they could avoid, delegate, or ignore decisions about IT to one where they cannot create a marketing, product, international, organizational, or financial plan that does not involve such decisions.
There are as many ways to use information technology in business, as there are business activities to be pursued. As a business end user, you should have a basic understanding and appreciations of the major ways information systems are used to support each of the functions of business. Thus, in this assignment we will discuss business information systems, that is, a variety of types of information systems (transaction processing, management information, decision support, etc) that support the business functions of accounting, finance, marketing, operations management and human resource management. In this assignment, first of all, I will make a presentation of the company Amazon.com and its history. We will see in this part the changes of Amazon.com from its early first-mover advantage through to the technology bubble crash in 2000, the introduction of a cost discipline, and its eventual emergence to what seems to be a profitable company.
