2. APPLICATIONS IN BUSINESS
A Computer can calculate fast and accurately and thus has become
an integrated part in all business organizations .
Computers are used in business organizations for multiple things,
like:
Payroll Calculations: Calculating salaries and preparing pay
cheques for employees.
Budgeting: quantitative financial plans and preparing pay cheques
for employees .
3. Sales Analysis : analyzing sales’ figures over a period of
time .
Financial Forecasting: assessing financial performance and
forecasting trends based on that.
Managing Employees Database :maintaining database of
employees ’ details.
Maintenance of stocks : understanding and analyzing stock
mix and stock demands.
Automatic Customer Interaction and Response: these days
using IT, various chat bots are created with automatically
interact with customers for basic questions. This way
customers get instant response without manual
intervention.
4. Medicine and Healthcare
Computers have become an important part in hospitals, labs,
and dispensaries. They are mainly used in:
Illness Diagnosis: analyzing patients’ symptoms and data to
diagnose illness.
Diagnosis Reporting: printing diagnosis reports in
appropriate format.
Monitoring Patients: recording and monitoring patients’ vital
signs such as blood pressure , heartbeat , blood sugar etc.
Surgery: assisting surgeons in surgery.
Use full Tool: acting as virtual patients for medical students.
5. Communications
Computers are critical for communication and are the centerpiece of
Information technology.
Computers in communications are majorly used for:
Email: sending and receiving emails .
Chatting: chatting and texting over Internet or Mobile apps such
as Whatsapp.
Audio and video call over Internet: You can make Audio or video
call over Internet.
Social Media and Networking: computer are effectively used for
social networking using app like Facebook , Twitter etc.
6. Video and Audio conferencing: You can connect with
multiple people over voice call or video call using modern
day computer technology.
Mobile Computing: because of smartphones, tablets and
PDAs, IT had made communication with anyone so easy and
handy , in fact, in pocket of all of us –literally and
metaphorically.
Media : modern day media are able to communicate and
broadcast, telecast , webcast news and other information
instantly and efficiently because of modern computer
technologies .
7. Education and Reference
Computer technology has had a deep impact on the education sector
and it has helped both learners and educator in enormous ways:
Teaching Aids
Online Teaching and Assessment
Virtual Libraries
Demonstrations
Communication and Connectivity
Distance Education and Virtual classroom
Research Purposes
Storage of Bulk Data and Information
8. Science , Research and Engineering
Science and Engineering use the computers as a tool to ,experiment,
design and develop their ideas/projects. Researcher information from
distant locations without actually going there ,courtesy computers.
Analyzing Data
Prediction Modelling
CAD,CAE and CAM
Computer Aided Designing (CAD)
Computer Aided Engineering (CAE)
Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM)
Complex Mathematical Calculations
Cosmos and Astronomy Studies