1. Companies generally need to use more than one information system to support all their different business functions. These functions are frequently referred to as either front- office information systems or back- office systems. Define each of these two types of systems and identify some of the typical business functions sup-ported by them. Please submit by midnight Sunday.
2. Assume you are designing a retail point-of-sale (POS) system for your company. What are the typical system interfaces of a point-of-sale system that need to be taken into account in designing the POS system? Please submit by midnight Sunday.