How the Information Age Has Changed the Information Systems Industry

The Information Age has changed the Information Systems industry by creating software that makes most tasks that would normally require expert knowledge user friendly, allowing complex tasks to be done automatically, and it also allows many businesses and organizations to communicate over great distances simultaneously. To understand how the Information Age has changed this industry, one must understand exactly what the Information Age is. The Information Age refers to the period where information quickly became available. This primarily began in the early 1980s. The Information Age also commenced the ongoing competition between businesses to obtain scarce information, which was regarded as a scarce resource.

The Information Age has changed the Information Systems industry by making most tasks that would normally require expert knowledge user friendly. Mrs. Linda Feliciano describes how she has seen database software develop over the past 20 years:

“I started working with databases in 1985, while working in an MI Brigade Automation Center. At that time, we used dBase-II. It was DOS based, required quite a bit of programming knowledge to create, and wasn't very stable because users then were also new to computers. It required complicated strings to