Information Systems Applications Student's NameInstitutional AffiliationCourseInstructor's NameDate Information Systems ApplicationsQuestion 1Organizations have various departments such as production, marketing, sales, human resource, accounting, and many more. These departments make the different functional areas of an organization, thus allowing data to be collected and flow in an organization. An IT application designed to maintain the work of different functional areas is organized by them to co-ordinate and successfully used within these areas (Al-Mamary et al., 2017). There are various aspects which the requirement of IT applications is concerned with, including corporate data gathering and storing, processing and making the data processable, and report-making to allow showing results in a standard manner. The identified aspects are fulfilled by each functional area of organizing differently due to the type of data, the form of processing, and the different ways of processing, and the format of reports (Swanson, 2017). IT systems that mirror these functions in various departments make the operations smooth. This makes the process of organizing the IT applications by functional areas more logical than other ways. Also, it