 Hello and welcome to MIS 313, Introduction to Management Information Systems. My name is Abin Gawida and as you can kind of guess from the green screen, one of the things I'm going to be doing is I'm going to be providing videos of my lectures for this class. That way if you happen to miss class due to being sick or other reasons, or you know you weren't kind of paying attention in class for reasons, or if you just get stuck during your homework, you can always come back to these videos and they'll hopefully give you a nice little kind of way to catch up. One of the things we're going to be using is the McGraw-Hill 6th edition textbook Business Driven Technology. This actually also comes with a McGraw-Hill Connect access code and you'll need that because we'll be having about 50% of our homework assignments coming from that. The other half will be through the Microsoft Office suite, so hopefully you have that through tealware or your own personal computers. One of the things about this class, MIS 313 and whatnot, that term, Management Information Systems, seems really weird, very technical, big fancy $5 words, but what it really means is how do we take the computer and turn it into some kind of component of business. You see, we've been in what is known as the information era for a few years now, probably about a decade-ish, where information technology, the internet is available to us 24-7. I can literally have one of these things and if I ever have a question, I can just hop on here and I immediately can get the answer. Wikipedia is everywhere. Well, if we look at that from a business perspective, that's actually a huge change in everything that we've been doing for pretty much up until now. 24-7 communication now allows our logistics to happen seamlessly. I actually just had a package get delivered today and I ordered it a day ago. So, all of a sudden, all of this, how does it kind of tie in? Where does it all come in? It's not just that it's a computer, it's fast. It actually gets some different little areas like databases and data warehouses. That's what we'll be actually focusing in on in this class. So, without further ado, I'll see you in class. Best of luck this semester.