differentiate between information technology and information systems

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1. Guest1423
   

   information system is specific and information technology is general

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2. Guest6435
   

   Information Systems is a large umbrella referring to systems designed to create, store, manipulate, or disseminate information. Example of an information system is a pencil and a piece of paper. The two objects themselves are just tools, but together they create a system for writing (information). The term Information systems has been around a lot longer than the computer, or the term information technology. These days the two are sometimes thought to be synonymous, but that, in most cases, is a misconception.
   
   Information technology falls under the information systems umbrella, but has nothing to do with systems per say. IT deals with the technology involved in the systems themselves, e.g. an information system like wiki.answers.com contains many information technologies. Servers, server operating systems, web-server software (IIS, Apache, et al), and code written for the web-server software (PHP, C#, VB, PERL, Ruby, et al). Even your computer and browser make up part of this information system. Like the pencil and paper example, each one of the mentioned parts of this information system in itself is an information technology.

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3. Guest6116
   

   IS are computer-based systems for collecting, retrieving, processing, storing, and disseminating information to support organisational decision making and control. IT refers to the technological infrastructure, including computer hardware, software, telecommunication networks, workststions, robotics and smart chips that provide the capabilities for information system.
   
   
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