What was my last question about OA, MIS, BPM?
I would like to give a brief introduction here. When you go to the interview, we will classify three systems that have been used for each of them, so that the interviewer will not ask you, what you have done on your own, I still don't know which category it belongs.
- OA is short for office automation. It is intended to improve OFFICE efficiency by using technical means, and thus achieve office automation. OA has evolved from the initial stage marked by the use of office equipment such as photocopiers to the current stage marked by the use of networks and computers, it has played a positive role in promoting the change of office mode and the improvement of efficiency.
OA software solves the basic problems of standardizing daily management, increasing controllability, and improving the operational efficiency of enterprises, the scope covers daily administrative management, approval of various matters, management of office resources, collaborative office with multiple departments, and communication and transmission of various information. To sum up, OA software spans various business areas such as production, sales, and finance, and focuses more on the efficiency and controllability of daily office work, it is an indispensable software tool for enterprises to improve their overall operational capabilities.
OA development stage
Tool phase: -- paper information digitization, text-only, table processing, storage, query, tool phase MIS phase: -- Digital Information Collection and summarization, process, form management, local area sharing, the C/S structure is the mainstream collaborative network era: the Internet environment, comprehensive information, multi-angle sharing and collaboration requirements, based on intelligence, portal, management and business integration, b/S structure is mainstream
- MIS (Management Information System) System, A system composed of people, computers, and other peripheral devices that can collect, transfer, store, process, maintain, and use information. It is an emerging science. Its main task is to maximize the use of modern computer and network communication technology to strengthen enterprise information management, by investigating and understanding the human, material, financial, equipment, technology and other resources owned by the enterprise, establishing correct data, processing and compiling various information and materials, and providing them to the management personnel in a timely manner, in order to make correct decisions, and continuously improve the management level and economic efficiency of enterprises. At present, the enterprise's computer network has become an important means for enterprises to carry out technical transformation and improve the level of enterprise management. With China's integration with the world's information highway, enterprises will surely bring huge economic and social benefits for enterprises to obtain information through computer networks, the enterprise's office and management will all develop in an efficient, fast, and paperless manner. The MIS system is usually used for System Decision-making. For example, the MIS system can be used to find out the problems that need to be solved urgently, and the information can be fed back to the upper management personnel in a timely manner, let them know the progress or shortcomings of their current work. In other words, the ultimate goal of the MIS system is to make managers know the current situation of the company in a timely manner and grasp the future development path.A complete MIS should include: Auxiliary Decision-making System (DSS), Industrial Control System (IPC), office automation system (OA) as well as databases, model libraries, inventory databases, knowledge bases, and interfaces for exchanging information with higher authorities and the outside world. In particular, office automation systems (OA) and information exchange with higher authorities and the outside world are inseparable from the application of Intranet. It can be said that modern enterprise MIS cannot have no Intranet, but the establishment of Intranet must depend on the system structure and software and hardware environment of MIS.The core of the traditional MIS system is the CS (Client/Server -- Client/Server) architecture, while the core of the Internet-based MIS system is the BS (Browser/Server -- Browser/Server) architecture. The BS architecture is superior to the CS architecture. The traditional MIS system depends on the special operating environment, which means that the operator's activity space is greatly limited; the BS architecture does not require a special operating environment. The MIS system can be operated wherever the Internet is available. The difference between the advantages and disadvantages is self-evident.
The Internet-based MIS System is an extension of the traditional MIS system concept. It can be used not only for high-level decision-making, but also for General Business Management. You can remotely browse, query, control, and review the system through user-defined Logon (or anonymous logon) and corresponding permission control. With the expansion of the Internet, existing companies and schools are no longer limited to physical and tangible regions, and the network itself becomes the space for actual development. The MIS System Based on the Internet makes up for the shortcomings of the traditional MIS system and fully embodies the characteristics of the modern network era. With the rapid development of Internet technology, the Internet will surely become the technical cornerstone of a new society. The Internet-based MIS system will surely become a new generation of management information system in the Internet era, with extremely optimistic prospects.
- BPM (Business Process Management) refers to Business Process Management based on changes in the Business environment, IT tools that promote the integration and adjustment of business methods and solutions between people, between people and systems, and between systems. Business Process Management should include "modeling-implementation-monitoring-management" and other processes. All the services and tools required must be known as BPM.The disadvantage of the current information system development method is that the demand expression is not clear and the efficiency is not high. In this way of thinking, the process is solidified in the system, and enterprises cannot easily and quickly change the business process as the business environment changes, changes in the enterprise environment make it necessary for enterprises to quickly adjust their businesses to respond. Real-time enterprises will use the latest information in an agile manner to actively eliminate the low efficiency of management and execution in their key business processes. The emergence of BPM aims to solve the agility, real-time performance evaluation, and resource integration and optimization problems brought about by real-time changes in enterprise processes, these problems cannot be solved by traditional OA and workflow.With BPM, You can automate business processes and integrate and measure your business through process analysis and monitoring, quantifiable improvement results can be obtained from the business, organization, and IT perspectives. This effect will become more and more significant as managers analyze and optimize processes through BPM.
A complete BPM system is structured by main elements such as the graphical process design environment, process management and monitoring, BPM engine, user execution environment, and underlying EAI platform that integrates various resources. In general, BPM is based on the Service Oriented Architecture. BPM creates and provides a BPM process across application systems by bundling services of other application systems. It can also combine various simple service workers into new services to modularize the basic elements of BPM management, and can be used cyclically. The SOA-based architecture will put forward higher requirements on the adaptability of the J2EE platform. Gartner's research shows that BPM products closely integrated with the J2EE platform will take a dominant position in the next two years.
In addition, since BPM records all activities of a business process, key indicators required for process management can be set, provide real-time and intuitive performance data for business, organizational, and individual persons to process implementers and managers to achieve effective results of objective determination.
