Comparison of the Information Technology Development in Slovakia and Hungary
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A Service of Leibniz-Informationszentrum econstor Wirtschaft Leibniz Information Centre Make Your Publications Visible. zbw for Economics Sasvari, Peter; Majoros, Zsuzsa Article — Published Version Comparison of the Information Technology Development in Slovakia and Hungary International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA), Suggested Citation: Sasvari, Peter; Majoros, Zsuzsa (2013) : Comparison of the Information Technology Development in Slovakia and Hungary, International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA),, The Science and Information (SAI) Organization, New York, Vol. 4, Iss. 2, pp. 59-64 This Version is available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/76699 Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen: Terms of use: Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Documents in EconStor may be saved and copied for your Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. personal and scholarly purposes. 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More and more enterprises The IT development of the two countries compared introduce Enterprise Resource Planning System to be able to (Hungary (HUN) and Slovakia (SK)) may be corresponding perform the listed functions. The article illustrates the usage of with their economic status, so first we have analyzed some these systems in Hungary and Slovakia, as well as tests the essential economic indicators. following presumption: the level of Information Technology (IT) development is lower in Hungary than our northern neighbor. TABLE I. ECONOMIC INDICATORS IN HUNGARY AND SLOVAKIA [27] [28] Keywords— Information society; Information Technology; 1 2008 2009 2010 2011 Slovakia, Hungary HUN SK HUN SK HUN SK HUN SK I. INTRODUCTION GDP (PPP) 64 73 65 73 65 73 66 73 The role of information has become more and more EU=100 substantial in the economy recently, and information is (%) regarded as an important resource since it is more difficult for Unem- companies to improve their market positions in the long term ployment 7.8 9.6 10.0 12.1 11.2 14.4 10.9 13.5 without having the appropriate amount of available information rate (%) [5]. Globalization in the business world has brought about the Avarage monthly 705.5 723.0 708.5 744.5 718.4 769.0 755.6 786.0 possibility of getting a greater amount of information in much gross wage less time, which means that companies are forced to spend (EUR) more time and energy on handling the increased information load [10] [17]. The GDP /purchasing power parity/ indicate the quality of As information systems are designed to provide effective living standards; this data is constantly higher in Slovakia, help in this process, they are becoming increasingly popular while in Hungary we can see a slow development. The among companies due to the robust technological development unemployment rate is lower in our country, so this indicator [11]. This paper deals with the usage of business information favors us. However the average monthly gross wage is greater systems among Hungarian enterprises and analyzes the in Slovakia. following three key questions: how the usage of business information systems influences a company’s economic In recent years the number of companies has multiplied performance, what expenditure is required for an individual across the EU, only the economic crisis has sat back this company to develop its information technology infrastructure dynamism. Micro enterprises make up the most typical size and finally, to what extent information technology is both in Europe and in Hungary, this amount to 91.8% of all the considered important as a functional area within the companies. Since most jobs are created by SME-s, we cannot organization of a company [2]. ignore researching them. In Hungary the number of SME-s per 1000 habitants is higher than the average in the EU. The reason The aim of the research presented in this paper was to of this is the existence of forced businesses, formed by the explore the current situation of Hungarian enterprises in terms regulatory environment. of using business information systems, gaining a more th thorough insight into the background of the decisions made on Hungary was the 49 in 2012 by the classification of the th introducing such information systems, together with the Doing Business Index, while Slovakia was the 46 . This indicator scans different parameters in the economies then shows their ease of doing business. In 2013 Slovakia keeps its th 1 The described work was carried out as part of the TÁMOP-4.2.1.B- position, but Hungary becomes only the 54 , because of the 10/2/KONV-2010-0001 project in the framework of the New Hungarian difficulty in access to credit, the deterioration in solving Development Plan. The realization of this project is supported by the bankruptcies, and the hardness of starting business. European Union, co-financed by the European Social Fund. 59 | P a g e www.ijacsa.thesai.org (IJACSA) International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2013 Whereas these economic indicators show that Slovakia is in According to one definition proposed [4] "information a more favorable economic position. Our purpose is to analyze systems are systems that use information technology to collect that question of „which country is more developed by IT information, transmit, store, retrieve, process, display and perspective”. transform information in a business organization by using information technology." II. DEFINITION AND CLASSIFICATION OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS Raffai’s understanding of information systems is as follows: "it uses data and information as a basic resource for There are several definitions offered on business different processing activities in order to provide useful information systems in the literature. According to Burt and information for performing useful organizational tasks. It’s Taylor’s approach, “business information systems can be main purpose is the production of information, that is dedicated regarded as an information source in any combination thereof, to creating messages that are new to the user, uncertainties or any access to and any recovery of their use or manipulation. persist, and their duties, to assist in fulfilling the decisions" Any business information system is designed to link the user to [19]. an appropriate source of information that the user actually needs, with the expectation that the user will be able to access The classification of business information systems is a the information satisfying their needs” [3]. Davis and Olson difficult task because, due to the continuous development, it is define business information systems as "an integrated user- hard to find a classification system that can present machine system for providing information to support the unanimously defined information system types. It occurs quite operations, management, analysis, and decision-making often that different abbreviations are used to refer to the same functions in an organization. The system utilizes computer system or certain system types appear to be merged together. hardware and software, manual procedures, models for As a consequence, the classification of business information analysis, planning, control, and decision-making by using a systems can be done in several ways, the lists of several groups database" [6]. of business information systems presented below just to show a few alternatives for classification [1]. "Information systems are a part of any organization that provides, generates, stores, separates, divides and uses Dobay [8] made a distinction between the following types: information. They are made up of human, technical, financial Office Automation Systems (OAS): used for efficient and economic components and resources. In fact, they can be handling of personal and organizational data (text, regarded as inherently human systems (organizations, manual image, number, voice), making calculations and systems) that may include a computer system, and automatizes document management. certain well-defined parts