CP102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Enterprise Resource Planning, Customer Relationship Management, Application Software
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Two types of software operating software and application software: with application software, it doesn"t actually operate with the hardware. To operate with the hardware, it would have to interact with the operating software. Software: a set of instructions that tell the computer what to do. Two basic types of software: application software, system software. Installed software: software that is already installed on the computer, proprietary (or commercial) software, open source software. Software as a service (saas: web-based applications, collaborate online. Why would a company choose to use a computer for word processing: better for the environment, definitely a faster process overall, allows you to search per subject, per user. [it described a process to read, write, and erase symbols on a tape and was the precursor to today"s ram] [the program can be freely distributed as long as the program code is not changed] It has a what-if" analysis feature built in.
