ITM 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Enterprise Software, Computer Hardware, Application Software

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 102
• Professor: Ozgur Turetken

Document Summary

It infrastructure: technology resources that provide the platform for the firm"s specific information system applications. +includes investment in hardware, software and services such as consulting education and training. Set of physical devices (hardware) and software required to operate the enterprise. Set of firm wide services including computing platforms providing computing services telecommunications services data management services application software services physical facilities management services it management, standards, education, research, and development services. (ex ryerson ccs) Cloud computing and mobile computer era: 2000 to present. General purpose mainframe and minicomputer era is: 1959 to present. Moore"s law a(cid:374)d (cid:373)icroprocessi(cid:374)g power (cid:894)leader of the i(cid:374)tel processors(cid:895) >>18month, twice as much computer power/same computing power for half price (18 month behind computing power) The amount of digital information is roughly doubling every year. The amount of storage per dollar increases at an exponential rate of 100 percent per year.