DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A COMPUTERIZED INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR A MULTER – SERVICE ORIENTED RENTAL BUSINESS A CASE STUDY OF AKAL RENTAL SERVICES

CHAPTER ONE

1.0 INTRODUCTION

if you can look around, you can see that most rental service centers continue to use manual information system because their information needs are of moderate size and managers of such organization have probably been enjoying the manual system as regards to their relatively and comfortable low level of transaction activities it is only the rental centers with very large information or high capacity of rental service with rapid rate of renting per item that are likely to survive pressure and there fore should link information system to business strategy. They should also give more thought to improving corporate effectiveness through their own involvement in system planning to ensure that business strategy is developed in the context of the computerized environment. Among the many rental services center’s the majority who adopted a great variety of manual information system for management activities most of which are single file system. this singles.

This single file system does not offer opportunities for easy manipulation of data to provide managers an insight into transaction reports such as to rapid statistics for operation analysis, nor of course, does it provide instant access to information for controlling and directing the firm. At this point we can see that the would of rental service business lack conclusion data in the relative effectiveness of manual versus computerized information system.

A different rental service centers at various level of activities, while the critical level may be different agreed that stress, confusion and errors increase with increase in volume of information as the transaction activities rises, and the is a great point where manual information system will not operate successfully. In this respect, computerized rental service management information system, infact have been developed to produce the AKAL RENTALS with consistency, comprehensive and reasonable accurate information for planning directly and controlling the activities for which they are responsible and for making timely and effective decision