Abstract:

The concept of MIS traced from four major areas, namely, managerial accounting management science or operation research (OR), management theory and computer science. MIS is supported by a comprehensive set of data for business operations referred to as a database. A data warehouse is developed from information extracted from different databases. Data warehousing requires analytical processing for business intelligence and hence necessitates the joint effort of MIS, OR and IT specialists, yet they all exist as separate communities right from training to organizations. The objective of the paper was to establish whether integrated teaching of OR and MIS would lead to better warehousing systems. It was concluded that data warehousing would be more successful if its development was a joint effort of OR/MIS and IT community. The recommendation was that OR and MIS be taught as one discipline whose graduates would work very closely with IT specialists.