Information in business environment:
Any business organization relies heavily on information. Information becomes essential to managers and operating personnel in decision making and in solving all work related problems. It becomes a clear fact now that the importance of information in any production or service organization exceeds those of any of other corporate resources, as materials, energy, and money. This is simply because without information we cannot manage any of these resources. Information is highly needed in hospitals, schools, in factories, in public utilities, in transportation, just to mention a few. Organizations feed on information to produce goods or service. Every level of management requires specific form of information suitable to be used in taking effective decisions. This is only accomplished if the information is disseminated through the right channel, to be available to the right person, in the right form and at the right time. Information concept stemmed from data processing era. We realized the importance of information after this large accumulation of processed data within human activity environment. Using computers in data processing depends on the amount and the sophistication required, but disseminating and controlling this processed data depend heavily on the manual system and human machine interface Systems analysis, as performed by systems analysts, seeks to understand what people need to analyze, store, transform needed data and systemically produce information in the context of the organization, and design ways to make these information available in a useful form to those who need to use it.