Architecture of a Management Information System for Farmers

Edita ŠilerováKlára HeynnyeováJan Jarolímek

DOI 10.7160/aol.2016.080415
No 4/2016, December
pp. 163-169

Šilerová, E., Heynnyeová, K. and Jarolímek, J. (2016) “Architecture of a Management Information System for Farmers", AGRIS on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 163 - 169. ISSN 1804-1930. DOI 10.7160/aol.2016.080415.

Abstract

In view of growing importance of data, information and knowledge in companies has become very actual issue of the quality of their processing through the information system modules. Using of modules of the management information systems for qualified analyzes conducted over primary data stored in companies in the Czech Republic is not too widespread. The aim of this article is based on a long-term investigation conducted to analyze the situation and propose for agricultural holdings architecture management information system for farmers to support their decision-making activities.

Keywords

Data, information, knowledge, information systems, management, architecture of information systems.

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