The Challenge of Multimedia Information Systems to the MIS Manager

Abstract

Regardless of how successful multimedia is proving to be day by day, multimedia information systems still pose a great challenge for the MIS manager and the information systems department with respect to implementation and use. The challenges stem either from within the system and its nature or from outside the system. Traditional computing and networking environments depend on hardware and software to manipulate what is basically text and data. Very often this manipulation is purely an internal process, resulting in output of predetermined form, strictly utilitarian in nature, that is imposed upon the end-users, who have little say in the matter.