The document discusses several topics related to information technology including how IT is used for communication, the evolution of terms like DP and IT, and how IT has changed industries like entertainment. It also provides tips for organizing emails and files and discusses concepts like data warehousing, data mining, intranets, extranets, VPNs, and portals. Potential issues with IT like security, privacy, and stability are also outlined.

1. David Wilson
Angela Devenney
Brittany Matheny
Brien Mccoy

2.  IT is used as communication tool to:
 Share information between staff, suppliers, and
consumers.
 1970’s Information Technology was know as DP.
 Data VS. Information.
 1980’s Business Tech (BT) introduced tools like atm’s
and voicemail
 Then after the 1980’s (BT) was know as (IT) information
tech.
 CIO helps businesses use tech for communication

3.  Allows for online paying and ordering
 How it changed the entertainment
industry:
 40 year ago you had to go to a movie
theater
 Allows for video ordering
 Allows for downloading on computer, iPod,
or cell phone
 Broke time and location barrier
 NASDAQ

4.  Knowledge makes info useful
 Business Intelligence – software
applications that analyze an organization’s
raw data
 BI changes traditional flow of info:
 Used to train workers
 Provides insights

5.  Business process information
 Physical world Observation
 Biological data
 Public data
 Data that indicates personal references or
intention

7.  Tips for organizing E-mail and electron
files
 Use your e-mail program’s organizing
tools
 Use consistent file names
 Use online backup services
 Use desktop search software

8.  Data Warehouse:
 Stores data on a single subject over time
 Purpose is to get data out
 Data Mining:
 Looking for hidden patterns and
relationships among data

9.  The road to knowledge
 Network of computer networks
 Was a one to one communication tool
 Now it is a one to many broadcast tool

10.  Companywide network, closed to public
access
 Keeps unwanted sources out
 Uses firewalls
 Allows for interactive apps

11.  Broader version of an Intranet
 Allows for data sharing which encourages
collaboration between companies
 Good for:
 Same information access
 Processing orders
 Invoices
 payments

12.  Secure system used with extranets
 Reserved solely for the network
 Issues with Dedicated lines:
 Expensive
 limit extranet use
 Often too time consuming

13.  Private data network
 Creates secure connections or tunnels
 Advantages of (VPNs):
 Same capabilities as extranets
 Cheaper than extranets
 Allows for on-demand networking
 Keeps corporate networks secure

14.  Make information available in one place
 Gives users access to their area of the
intranet
 Advantages:
 Centralizes information
 Serves as entry point
 Allows access according to one’s role

15.  Allows a continuous connect to the internet
 Sends and receives:
 Video
 Voice
 Data files

16.  Runs 22000 times faster than today’s
internet
 Supports heavy duty apps
 Key element
 very-high-speed backbone network
service vBNS
 Helps remote medical specialists
 Over 325 member universities

17.  Social Networking
 Inexpensive way to get exposure
 Tools for collaboration between businesses and
consumers
 Web 2.0
 Tools used to build social and business connection
 Share information & collaborate on projects online
 Examples
 YouTube, Twitter, My space, facebook

18.  Hardware includes:
 computers
 mobile phones
 Printer
 Scanners
 fax’s
 PDA’s
 CUTTING THE CORD
 Today most experts would agree that people are
moving away from just using their PC’s to
connect. Nowadays people are also using Iphones,
netbooks, blackberry’s, etc.

19.  Computer Networks:
 Connect people to people and people to data
 Allow companies & people to save time & money
 Have drawbacks, maintaining a fleet of PC’s is
expensive, also you lose productivity every time you
update, troubleshoot, or train a new employee how to
use it
 Some companies are now looking for other options
 One option is hybrid of mainframe & network
computing

20.  Thin client networks
 Software changes & upgrades need to be made only on the
server, so cost can be reduced by 20%
 Rent software & hardware access
 Virtualization & Cloud Computing
 Process that allows networked computer to run
multiple operating systems & programs through one
central computer at the same time
 Allows for virtualization but helps with limiting amount
of data share
 Often sold for a monthly fee

21.  Turn Technology off when not in use
 Buy programs like surveyor, which shut down
computers in a office at the push of a button

22.  Computer software tells the computer what to do
 Shareware
 Copyrighted
 Distributed free of charge but user usually sends a fee to he
developer if the program meets their needs
 Public Domain Software
 Free for the taking without any fees
 Business people use software for writing
 Word processors
 Spread sheets
 Filing and retrieving data
 graphics

23.  Human Resource Issues
 Telecommuting has many different advantages:
 The company can save resources
 Easy of use for the employee
 Often increases productivity
 Great for parents that have children or people with
disabilities
 Disadvantages:
 Less personal contact and confrontation
 Don’t know when to turn off work
 Sometimes part time alternative

24.  Nanobots
 People who are given the freedom to meet
the organization’s goals on their own time
and schedule
 Often given a project with a certain budget
and time deadline, and are left alone to take
the task on
 Biggest difficulty is finding the right person
for the job

25.  Security Issues
 Viruses
 Pieces of programming code inserted into other programming
that usually lies dormant until triggered to cause some
unexpected event
 Antivirus protection is essential
 Phishing
 Scammers often embellish an e-mail message with a stolen logo
for a well-recognized brand such as eBay, PayPal, or Citibank
 Scammers use phrases such as “Account Activation
Required”, or “Your account will be cancelled if you do not
verify”
 When the user clicks on it, the scammer can steal personal and
private information

26.  Other threats include:
 Copyright laws being violated
 Sexual and racial harassment
 Cyber terrorism
 Terrorist hackers could shut down the entire
communications, money supply, electricity, and
transportation systems
 In 2002 there was a powerful electronic attack
that crippled 9 of the 13 computers that manage
internet traffic globally

27.  Privacy Issues
 Many company managers scan employee e-mail
regularly (it is legal)
 Hackers can trap and read your email
 Makes easier to do unnecessary snooping
 Cookies:
 Pieces of information that the browser sends back to the
server whenever you return to that web site
 Tracks your movement
 Spyware can be installed on your computer without your
knowledge

28.  Stability Issues
 Being error free
 Hershey company’s $115 million dollar new computer
system disrupted shipments one Halloween and caused a
12% deficit that quarter
 Combination of human error, computer error,
malfunctioning software, and an overly complex marriage of
software, hardware, and networking equipment
 Management must face all of these challenges
within the company in order to maintain a strong,
growing company