Automated information systems: what are the problems of implementation

It's a long time ago when automation means not simply the acquisition of a PC and the creation of a network, but the formation of an information system that consists of computers, a network, software, and the most important - the organization of information flows.

Analyzing the experience of implementing IP in Russia, one can say that often automated information systems on the basis of some integrated software are either not fully implemented, or the company's management practically does not use them. This, unfortunately, is the standard situation.

To understand the whole point of the article, it is necessary to recall that an automated information system is a set of economic and mathematical models and methods, information, software, technical, technological tools, and also specialists. It is created for the collection and subsequent storage and processing of information, as well as for the adoption and issuance of managerial decisions.

The analysis of implementation carried out today revealed several reasons for the failure, which the automated information system reacts after its creation.

Problems and difficulties

1. Ready-made foreign automated information systems are primarily focused on the ideal business processes that do not border on the real structures of our companies and enterprises.
2. The development of systems is handled by programmers, so they are built according to the theory of the AU. It turns out a closed automated process, excluding the human factor. As a result, all management is rejected by such a system and that is why the leaders of medium-sized businesses are opposed to the introduction of these systems already at a subconscious level.
3. Insufficient analysis of existing tasks at the design stage.

Today we need a new approach, thanks to which automated information systems will be created. There is no novelty here, but this method consists in careful design of the system and its further implementation with the help of adequate software, and not in creating a system based on an integrated product, as it was before.

The current design failures can also be avoided by using a principle called synarchic design. Briefly about him we can say the following: this is an organic combination of hierarchy and analogy in the construction of the universe.

Synarchic design is a technology that allows creating automated information systems for business, whether it is an enterprise, concern, holding, etc., where the real hierarchy of management is considered with its phased implementation, real planning and obtaining the effect of implementation at each stage, organic integration In the system of standard components and original developments. Moreover, synarchic design allows to master the system as a management tool from director to executor. At the same time, responsibility will not be transferred to automated systems, so the head will fully understand the origin of the information that circulates in it.

In conclusion, I would like to say that both customers and solution providers need to analyze first of all the real need for automation before finalizing the software for the creation of an information system and only after that to design.