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Beginners
How To Guide
The Basics of Information Technology
Introduction
This
Guide has been written for absolute beginners, to define
Information Technology and related terms and to put
a context on the use and importance of ICT (Information
and Communications Technology) in business.
Information Technology involves the processing of information
by a computer. Usually this means the use of hardware,
software, services, and the supporting infrastructure
to manage and deliver information.
IT has changed our daily personal lives radically over
recent years - the use of mobile phones to make calls
and send text messages, the use of websites to book
cheap flights and the use of ATM machines for banking
are all an integral part our society today.
Clearly the business environment has been hugely impacted
by these developments and practically every company
has had to adapt IT in some form in order to compete
effectively.
eBusiness can be defined as the application of IT to
business processes; i.e. the process of doing business
with trading partners electronically. This includes,
for example, processing business transactions electronically,
integrating business processes electronically and transferring
payments electronically and delivering services electronically.
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