The Department of Social Security is one of the largest government departments, consuming 30 percent of public spending and employing around 10 per cent of central government StJ. Before 1980 there were no computers in its local administrative centres. The Operational Strategy was a plan to change this, involving the construction of largescale computer systems and the installation of 40,000 terminals in 1,000 local offices and unemployment offices. It is the largest programme of computerization ever undertaken in Europe. Full national coverage is expected in 1991. But the project has been plagued with problems: costs have soared from £700m. to £2, CCXh-n. and rising, planned savings have fallen, expected benefits seem unlikely to be achieved and implementation errors have caught the public eye. What caused these problems and are they as serious as reports in the press might lead the public to believe? Computerization has the potential to make possible many far reaching changes to administrative functions and working practices. It is important to study the decisional implications of these changes before the computers themselves become embedded in the structure of the organization.

The computerization of social security: the way forward or a step backwards?

This thesis reports research into the specification and implementation of an Information Technology (IT) Route Map. The purpose of the Route Map is to enable rapid design and deployment of IT solutions capable of semi-automating business processes in a manufacturing enterprise. The Map helps structure transition processes involved in “identification of key business strategies and design of business processes” and “choice of enterprise systems and supporting implementation techniques”. Common limitations of current Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are observed and incorporated as Route Map implications and constraints. Scope of investigation is targeted at Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) that employ Engineer-To-Order (ETO) and Make-To-Order (MTO) business processes. However, a feature of the Route Map is that it takes into account contemporary business concerns related to “globalisation”, “mergers and acquisitions” and “typical resource constraint problems of SMEs”. In the course of the research a “Business Strategy Driven IT System Concept” was conceived and examined. The main purpose of this concept is to promote the development of agile and innovative business activity in SMEs. The Road Map encourages strategy driven solutions to be (a) specified based on the use of emerging enterprise engineering theories and (b) implemented and changed using component-based systems design and composition techniques. Part-evaluation of the applicability and capabilities of the Road Map has been carried out by conducting industrial survey and case study work. This assesses requirements of real industrial problems and solutions. The evaluation work has also been enabled by conducting a pilot implementation of the thesis concepts at the premises of a partner SME.

Business Strategy Driven IT SystemsForEngineer-To-Order and Make-To-OrderManufacturing Enterprises

Information systems frequently costs organisations between one and ten percent of their gross income There are several different types of information systems issues and these might lead to a number of organisational issues Despite this many organisations are unhappy with their investment in information systems as there are numerous examples of failed information systems

These issues are also common to most organisations using information systems This paper considers some of these more common information systems fail and discusses some suggestions as to how to deal with these issues These issues could also apply to other countries

Some ad hoc information system issues in South Africa for the new millenium and suggestions as to how to deal with them

While technology has advanced in more recent decades, women have not shared in the successes that computer information systems has provided. Without the help of many significant female role models in computer information systems education, business, and industry, young women still hold the belief that computer and information science is an unattractive and “geeky” field of study. However, it should not be assumed that women historically have not had role models in computing, for the exemplary model was provided by the contributions of Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. Contemporary organizations have come into existence to help bring women into the computing and information systems discipline. These organizations have brought attention to the so-called cyber feminism movement. More than ever, resources and awareness need to be directed toward recruiting middle school-aged girls to study computing and information systems during their school years and beyond their graduation from high school. Female computing professionals need to become readily accessible to such students, and more programs like the ALICE project need to be created to draw focus young women’s attention on the potential that women can have in the field of computer and information science.

Women in Computing & Information Systems

The face of business activities has changed significantly over the recent years with new and more effective methods of production being utilized to boost the profitability of the businesses. However, information management systems has been approved as one of the most successful ways of managing business activities and ensuring that they create competitive advantage over the other competitors in the market. On that regard, strategic utilization of information systems in business management is instrumental in foreseeing the success of commercial activities. Thus, the core purpose of this paper is to provide a discussion platform for addressing the various aspects of strategic use of information to ensure that business activities that are conducted through networks and the internet are substantially successful. It should be noted that strategic use of information systems is typically how to define, manage, organize, and provide ways of extracting and modifying incoming data by different users in business activities. The aim of this paper is to present the role and strategic use of information systems in e-management; elements and related issues. Keywords— Information Systems, E-Management, Database Management System DBMS. I. THE ROLE OF DBMS IN E-MANAGEMENT To begin with, strategic information management primarily depends on effective establishment of goo d business data base systems. A database management system (DBMS) is a fundamental platform from which computer systems in various organizations depend in conducting different tasks (Figure1). Because of th at, business database management systems are designed t o provide security functionalities of the different b usiness data to guarantee integrity, accessibility, and consequently, availability of the stored informatio n. Hence, business database security refers to all the collective measures that are deployed in Informatio n Technology to secure and protect a database system or consequently the provision of database management criteria with capabilities of preventing illegitima te uses of the database systems, attacks, and malicious threat s. Also, database security system is designed to offer tools , a multitude of processes, and methodologies that prov ide security practices on the database platform and environment (Vrechopoulos, 2010) Strategic informat ion management systems in e-management is a planned and well-designed Information Technology protocol that is maintained and managed by database administrators a nd other security professionals who bear the expertise of enforcing security at all levels and aspects of the database system and to ensure that all business activities t hat are carried out through networks are secure and success ful. The essential components of the database systems th at addressed in the systems security include; the data base server, the stored data, database management system , and other database workflow applications. Far from that , securing data is a complete task that requires high est security scope understanding. The primary security goals that should be addressed in the implementation of t he database management security system include; confidentiality, integrity, and availability (Smith , 2010). II. STRATEGIC USE OF INFORMATION It is also worth to highlight that strategic use of information in running business activities across t he internet and in e-commerce platforms has changed th face of business because it has created new face of reliability. Consequently, the technique has create d a strong archive and back up that can be used for dat a recovery purposes in case of disasters. Moreover, t he method is considered to be a relatively cheap becau se it does not require additional costs of marinating the hardware once the underlying business data has been stored. In addition to that, strategic business has also changed the aspect business in the sense that emanagement is substantially a type of business stra tegy that depends on sharing computing resources across networks instead of developing personal devices or local servers that are mandated with the task of handling National Conference on Computer Security, Image Pro cessing, Graphics, Mobility and Analytics (NCCSIGMA) International Journal of Advanced Engineering Research and Science (IJAERS) Special Issue (NCCSIGMA-16) https://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijaers/si.25 ISSN: 2349-6495(P) | 2456-1908(O) www.ijaers.com Page | 115 different applications and business activities (Pet ticrew, Ian& Alan, 2001). Fig. 1: The Role of DBMS in E-Management Fig. 2: Strategic Use of Information Systems III. SECURITY AND DATA RECOVERY The core purpose of information systems in business activities is to make business activities efficient . Authentication security protocol ensures that acces s to the underlying business database system is granted to t he legitimate and authorized users only. On the other hand, auditing security protocol in strategic information management systems is designed to offer accountabil ity in circumstances where the users are accessing rest rict d information. Finally, security authorization protoc ol ensures that different database users are allowed t o access the information that they are authorized to access. Despite the fact that these security protocols prot ect data from possible losses, they do not prevent unauthori zed access to the operating system where information an d data are stored. Hence, transparent data encryption measure is incorporated into the business database syst m to provide encryption to sensitive data in the data b se columns as they are stored in the operating system. Also, it provides secure storage as well as the managemen t of the encryption keys that are appropriated in the se curity modules that are located outside the database syste m. Thus, other than empowering the users, strategic information management systems are also instrumenta l in ensuring that confidential business information rem ains secure (Lucas, 2006). Despite the fact that information systems have revolutionized the face of business in various part s of the world, many security threats surround the general infrastructure of the underlying business database sy tem. Therefore, the subject of addressing the threats an d the provision of the necessary measures that can assist in handling the threats is an issue of that great impo rtance. In fact, understanding the risks in extensive groun ds National Conference on Computer Security, Image Pro cessing, Graphics, Mobility and Analytics (NCCSIGMA) International Journal of Advanced Engineering Research and Science (IJAERS) Special Issue (NCCSIGMA-16) https://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijaers/si.25 ISSN: 2349-6495(P) | 2456-1908(O) www.ijaers.com Page | 116 facilitates the modification and perfection of the use of business database systems and Information Technolog y as a whole. The fact that strategic use of information systems in business activities depend on the intern et means that crucial pieces of information can be los t while conveying these information from one business serve r to the others. Thus, for effective management of infor mation that relies on network platforms, it is substantial ly important that the IT experts should design recover y protocols that can be used to retrieve crucial piec es of business information in case of emergency (Kraemer, Kenneth & Jason, 2002). Fig. 3: Database Security Best Practices The purpose of deploying data recovery protocol in a business database system is to guarantee recovery o f data that can be lost in a database system. Consequently , a business data recovery protocol should be designed to incorporate data security policy or comprehensive information of the entire business database system. Besides, there should be full-time monitoring of th e backup security data to ensure that the data that i s recovered is correct. Different vendors of database systems tend to encrypt backup data to uphold preci sion and privacy during data recovery. In retrospect to hat, organizational employees bear the legal requirement of signing confidentiality agreements and employment background checks as a fundamental formal protocol for facilitating data recovery (Lacity, 2005). Contrary to that, business information data recover y protocol is also initiated by incorporating the pro ven data recovery systems in their database systems. One of the security protocols is the pre-programmed mirrored s rvers that are stored in the remote areas that can be acc ssed from critical database shut down circumstances. Alternatively, data can be stored on hard disks, ta pes, and other backup files that are readily available for l oading in new database servers. Data tapes containing requisi te data or information should be moved to areas that are co ld before they are loaded into the new servers and all owed to run. Consequently, all the data and application nee d to be debugged in alignment with the best database configuration that was initiated before the critica l shutdown of the database system (Allen, 2011). IV. CONCLUSION In conclusion, effective information management in business activities is substantially a very sensiti ve issue. Thus, the fact that business data base systems can necessitate the underlying strategic information management system in business activities that are u sually conducted across the internet means that companies should be rational in designing their business data base systems. Besides that, they should also incorporate information management man power that would deploye d to foresee effective management of the underlying information that are crucial in foreseeing the succ ess of the underlying businesses. More importantly, busine ss information protocols should be designed in a manne r that will substantially necessitate easy sharing of info rmation from both within and outside the business. REFERENCES [1] Allen, W.h. "The Formulation and Implementation of Strategic Information Sy

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