Designed to serve the monitoring, controlling, decision-making, and administrative activities of middle managers. These typically provide periodic reports rather than instant information on operations. Some of these systems support non-routine decision-making, focusing on less-structured decisions for which information requirements are not always clear. This will often require information from outside the organisation, as well as from normal operational-level data.
– MIS provide managers with reports and, in some cases, on-line access to the organisations current performance and historical records – Typically these systems focus entirely on internal events, providing the information for short-term planning and decision making. – MIS summarise and report on the basic operations of the organisation, dependent on the underlying TPS for their data.