Management Information System

Management Information System

A management information System (MIS) is used to track and control every transaction through a database. A Transaction is a business activity central to the nature of an enterprise.
A transaction can be the sale of a product, the flight of an airliner, or the recording of a college course grade. A database stores the information that is at the core of any MIS system.

An MIS for an airline flight information display would need to handle flight number, gate numbers, and expected arrival and departure times. This information is available to the public and company employees to view. The data comes directly from a company running an MIS.

Every attendant at the ticket counter who enters data using a keyboard is communicating with the MIS. when a flight finally does depart, another MIS run by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) uses radar systems to track its progress towards its destination.