单选题
A management information system ______ the business
managers the information that they need to make decisions. Early business
computers were used for simple operations such ______ tracking inventory,
billing, sales, or payroll data, with little detail or structure. Over time,
these computer applicationsbecame more complex, hardware storage capacities
grew, and technologies improved for connecting previously ______ applications.
As more data was stored and linked, managers sought greater abstraction as well
as greater detail with the aim of creating significant management reports from
the raw, stored______. Originally, the term "MIS" described applications
providing managers with information about sales, inventories, and other data
that would help in ______ the enterprise. Over time, the term broadened to
include:decision support systems, resource management and human resource
management, enterprise resource planning(ERP), enterprise performance
management(EPM), supply chain management(SCM), customer relationship
management(CRM), project management and database retrieval applications.