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 applications became 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.