The mid-eighties were the time most manufacturing companies began to shift to IS to forecast sales, take orders, and manage distribution of products. Time Berners-Lee developed the World Wide Web in 1989. This protocol HTML used over the existing Internets that had been constructed opened up a new era of EDI the world had never seen. Where by the mid-1990's it became apparent that there is no way for a corporation to efficiently do business without a solid functioning IS setup inside its own walls as well as connected with its supply-chain vendors and distributors. EDI once known as Electronic Data Processing (EDP) have now brought profit margins so low that any business that does not prepare itself will be out of business in the next five years.

IS is a technology driven system. With out it, business would not be what it is today. It has evolved over the past forty years to being the back bone of business, yet the simple application rules created in the 1960s and 1970s are still very relevant in any application where data or information is transferred in what ever business model it is applied to no matter the complexity.

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