Saturday, December 1, 2007

Weekly Blog #14


This week in class I learned about information system development and system reengineering. It involves several steps like identify inputs and outputs, flow of activities, resources etc. We also learned about the types of improvements that can be done, including from sequential to parallel, enhancing the decision authority, information sharing, eliminate buffering, automation and changing from batch to continuous. Another thing we learned was about the system development life cycle, which comprises of the following components: planning, analysis, design, development, testing, implementation and maintenance. The following article: Planned Systems Intenational Wins Contract to Provide Enterprise - Wide Provider Database to Military Health System talks about the contract Planned Systems International won to provide Enterprise-Wide Provider Database to Military Health System. The $2.5 million contract will help integrate functions that consolidate data and cross-link them to multiple business operations, processes and applications. The contract will provide a variety of services including technical management, system development, system integration, and formal testing.

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