PHYSICS 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Quicken, Technical Documentation, Cloud Computing
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2. 4 explain reuse and its role in software development. Def: [the practice of turning over responsibility for some or all of an organization"s information systems applications and operations to an outside firm. ] Examples of outsourcing: payroll systems, running applications for your company web-site. Reasons to outsource: cost effectiveness, turn over development and operations to outside staff who possess knowledge and skills not found internally. Increasing the revenue potential of the organization: freeing up internal resources, reducing time to market. If a company need an informational system for the managerial purposes or in general for internal operations and cannot produce the system in-house, the company will likely consult an information technology services firm. It services firms help companies develop custom information systems for internal use, or they develop, host, and run applications for customers, or they provide other services (2) packaged software producers. Software companies develop what are sometimes called prepackaged or off-the-shelf systems. (ex:
