How can information systems affect a company's bottom line (such as financial performance)?

What are other non-financial values that information systems can add to a business? I just need a few ideas not a full answer.|||The IS/IT department has access to much of the critical business data required to make good business decisions on sales, marketing and human resources. If you don't know how to extract the data in the easiest to review manner, it can cause a lot of inefficiency in the company practices that would otherwise be shown as ineffective with the right presentation of data.