Information systems in transforming system

Importance of information systems in transforming system

You can see the results of this massive spending around you every day by observing how people conduct business. More wireless (mobile) cell phone accounts were opened in 2008 than telephone land lines installed. Cell phones Blackberries, ipones, email, and online conferring over the Internet have all become essential tools of business. Fifty-eight percent of adult Americans have used a cell phone or mobile handheld device for activities other than voice communication, such as giving text, emailing, taking a picture, looking for maps or directions or recording video. 

By June 2008, more than 80 millions business worldwide had dot.com. Internet sites registered (60 millions in the U.S alone). Today 138 million Americans shop online. And 117 million have purchased through online. Every day about 34 million Americans go online for research’s product or service. 

In 2007, FedEx moved over 100 million packages in the United states mostly overnight and the United Parcel Service (UPS) moved 3.7 million packages worldwide. Business sough to sense and respond rapidly changing customer demand.

E-commerce and Internet advertising booming. Google’s online ad revenues surpassed $16.5 billion (USD) in 2007, and Internet advertising (Ad posting) continues to grow at more than 25 percent a year reaching more than $28 billion in revenues in 2008.

Now federal security and accounting rules, requiring many business to keep e-mail messages for five years, coupled with existing occupational and health laws requiring firms to store employee chemical exposure data for up to 60 years, are spurning the growth of digital information now estimated to be 5 megabytes annually, equivalent to 37,000 new Libraries of Congress.