information silos
Topic 1: Information Silos
What are information silos and how can an enterprise integration application system or an enterprise resource planning system help an organization deal with them?
Just do response each posted # 1 to 3 down below only.
Posted 1
In my understanding information silos are different systems withholding useful information that could be important for one another but are unable or do not share that information. Our textbook defines information silos as an information system that does not communicate with other, related information systems in an organization (Rainer & Prince, 2018). This could potentially harm an organization and cause unnecessary problems that could have been prevented if there was better communication between the systems.
Once an organization starts becoming successful, organizations have trouble communicating between systems. There could be a continuous problem that could have been resolved by using information from a different system or could have been an unseen issue for an organization. To resolve this, integrating an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system would benefit the organization to help solve this problem. Its focus is to be a system that is designed to correct the lack of communication among functional areas in the organization (Rainer & Prince, 2018). Having an ERP system available would benefit the organization by reducing time accessing information through common software. By integrating the system to the organization, it will bring awareness and transparency to other departments.
Posted 2
Silo is an outdated system that is usually developed for a specific focus and designed without considering future needs. Like other systems it is not compatible with other FAIS or organizational information systems. When using this type of system, it makes it hard to gather information together when needing data.
Enterprise integration application system or enterprise resource planning system can help by eliminating multiple legacy systems that cannot communicate with each other. The enterprise application can connect many applications together while the ERP integrates the planning. While reading it seems like this is not an easy process. It can take a while and even might not work for everyone. For example, in the passage the Air Force spend more than 1 billion dollars before canceling their ERP system implementation. While it worked for the Navy and they kept it implemented.
posted 3
Information silo is a management system that doesn’t communicate with other information management systems. The systems are created with its own data in specific formats. These formats are incapable of communicating When information isn’t shared between different departments in a company it can hinder efficiency in a business and be considered a problem.
Since the silos do not communicate with others the Enterprise resource planning systems (ERPS) and the Enterprise application integration (EAI) is in place to help with that problem. Enterprise resource planning (ERPS) are used to enable information to be shared. Enterprise application integration (EAI) also is helpful by providing layers of software that connects applications. Having these in place will help the organization with efficiency and productivity.
