Peran Sistem Informasi Manajemen (SIM) dalam Bidang Pendidikan (Sekolah)
This article aims to explain the role of Management Information Systems in the educational or academic fields, especially in schools. Education is a process of learning the knowledge, skills and habits of a group of people passed down from one generation to the next through teaching, training and research. In the world of technology education is very important because at this time almost every activity carried out using technology and does not rule out the possibility that in the world of education also has used information technology, the Management Information System (SIM) is the application of information systems within the organization to support information- information needed by all levels of management. Important role of SIM in the school to facilitate managing school data, Implementation of Management Information Systems (SIM) in Islamic Middle School Darul Qur'an Padang has student data, teacher data, student attendance list data, attendance list of teachers and employees, extracurricular data, eye data lessons, teacher picket schedule data, MID semester value data and semester value data, extracurricular or personal development data, study group data and additional study data for class IX. The important role of Management Information Systems (MIS) in education is very useful as an example for making certain decisions or policies. So, the Management Information System has an impact on improving the quality of schools in a better direction and the Management Information System (SIM) is also useful in daily school operations and is also useful in managerial decisions to be taken by the school