INFM-605: Information Users and Use Context

Summer Session I, 2007

Team Project

Information systems and information services

Goal: This project will provide your team with an opportunity to identify, evaluate, and select a commercially available information system that fits the information needs of real users in organizational contexts.

Instructions:

• Form a team of 2 or 3 members.
• Select a specific type of information system of your interest –CRM, MRP, ERP, DSS, GDSS, SIS, Expert System, etc…
• Identify 3 commercially available systems of the type selected by your team.
• Conduct a comprehensive analysis of the systems, and compare them in terms of their functionality, usability and other 10 criteria of your choice. Please include a full definition of each one of these criteria.
• Define the profile of ideal system users, in terms of the main features and information services delivered by each system vendor.
• Create a report with your findings, and prepare a 15-minute presentation to our class.

Due date: July 12, 2007, during class time.

Evaluation: This team project represents 30 points of your final grade.