Hardware
Hardware: any machinery (most of which use digital circuits) that assists in the input, processing, storage, and output activities of an information system.
When making hardware decisions, businesses must consider how the hardware can supports and meet their needs and requirements. The selection process must inline with their Objectives of the information System ecosystem in order to achieve the organization goals that being set.
Choosing the right computer hardware requires understanding of its relationship to the information system and needs of the organization.
Hardware objectives are subordinate to but supportive of the existing and future information system needs of the organization.
Through input and output devices, people provide data and instructions to the computer and receive results from it. Selection of input and output devices depends on organizational goals and Information System objectives as well.