Organizations refer to their management information systems functional area by several names,
including the MIS Department, the Information Systems (IS) Department, the Information
Technology Department, and the Information Services Department. Regardless of the name,
however, this functional area deals with the planning for—and the development, management,
and use of—information technology tools to help people perform all the tasks related
to information processing and management. Recall that information technology relates to any
computer-based tool that people use to work with information and to support the information
and information processing needs of an organization.