Relevance
The information used needs to be relevant to the decision making, there's no point in having good information when it isn't even needed. For Example if Cleveland College wanted decided whether they wanted to get more computers, they wouldn't need to know that 2% of students are gingers!
Quantity
How Much information do you need? Obtaining information takes a lot of time and effort need to know how much information do you need. Too much information means that you may not even use all of it, and end up wasting the time and money used to get it, and if you don't have enough information you may end up make a bad decision based of your limited information.
Economical
Is it worth the price? Gathering info can be expensive so what's
…show more content…
they had to consider these things in the new information system as well.
Ease of use
How difficult is it to use the information system? for Cleveland College they needed to consider this as, if the information system would be too difficult for the students and teachers to understand, then what's the point of making the information system in the first place, informations systems are supposed to be used to make it easy to access information, it needed to be as user friendly as possible.
User interface
…show more content…
But sadly many things can happen that may put this stored information in jeopardy, things such as hackers, viruses, DOS attacks, Electrical Storms, Hardware Failure, Etc.
All these things can lead to a breach of privacy or loss of important information and corruption of data the school may need to function. This is why Cleveland College is required to protect and look after this information to prevent unauthorized access and loss of data. They do this by using various security countermeasures such as:
Having all the servers run Firewall Software in order to protect the info stored on them.
Making it that only full time Teachers and Certain Admin Staff are allowed to access the system by using a secure log in.
Financial Information is only accessible by the Financial officer and the Principal, no one else has authorized