My internship was in the Corporate Finance for IT section of Morgan Stanley in New York City. I was primarily dealing with maintaining and enhancing the reports and their related systems used by the financial controllers. The Morgan Stanley corporate Data Warehouse used to store this information is called WISE (Warehouse and Integrated Services for the Enterprise).
Employees at Morgan constantly refer to terms learned in MIS 204 such as metadata, legacy systems, and middleware to discuss problems and explain how the system works. This internship helped me to see the real world application of the concepts learned in class. Programs such as Microsoft Excel, Access, Word, and PowerPoint were highly used and knowledge of the programs is expected of all employees.
Overall, taking MIS 204 helped me greatly by giving me the insight into the IT world to be able to effectively understand and exceed the knowledge expectations of how information systems worked.
Even though I am an accounting major, the knowledge that I gained through the internship as well as in MIS 204 will be of extreme value in the future. More and more professions require knowledge of IT and MIS.
As a message to MIS 204 students, I would like to stress that the information in the class is used in the business world in all fields. You do not need to be an MIS or IT major to be expected to know and understand these terms. In the Accounting field, for example, new departments called IT Audit require knowledge of information systems as well as knowledge of accounting. The world is becoming more diverse and an understanding of information systems and MIS concepts will give you a competitive advantage in the business world.
I just want to thank you for thoroughly explaining the complexities of information systems and MIS concepts because it has greatly increased my knowledge and was extremely beneficial in my performance as an intern at Morgan Stanley. Please let me know if you would like me to further explain anything I mentioned.
Thank you,
Stephanie Goldberg