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Introduction

Since ICT had been introduced life has become much easier for a lot of people. ICT has rapidly evolved since it was discovered. There is new ICT Systems being invented year, and the old ICT Systems are updated. Things that were done by human are taken out of the market. Information technology is used al over the world for different purposes. In some parts of the world there are people that do not have access to information technology systems.

From the time when information technology was introduced life for employees and employers have become easier. For example People could be served quickly as there is a equipment which is called EPOS which tags the code quickly and easily, which also records the stock control and also provides a receipt telling customers what they had brought at what cost. Another improvement is that businesses now can communicate to suppliers through computers. In this way it is cheaper and quicker. They can e-mail them to say what product they need. Another improvement in ICT is that a lot of businesses now have there own retailing web sites for example Tescos. This means that people can shop online 24/7, which is an advantage for them.



Advantages of information technology for businesses

Queues are shorter because it takes less time to get through the cashier.

Employee's work is easy as most of the work is done by the computers.

More accurate stock control.

Deliveries could be automatically sent through Internet

Easier to pay for goods.



Information technology has removed boring repetitive manual tasks in businesses because machinery is being used far more often. Jobs can be applied for online. Software can be shared remotely over the Internet, as well as documents and files. Shares can be also monitored, bought and sold over the Internet. New jobs have been created due to I.T such as call centres that solve your computing problems over the phone.

Also many people use their credit cards and other such cards to do their shopping. They can do this because of the communications between the shops and banks that allow the shops to take money out of your bank remotely to pay for products you purchase through the online shopping service.

With applications such as “video conferencing”, companies can interact with each other from thousands of miles away. Employees will not have to travel to other countries to discuss business ventures, but can do so via a video link. This cuts down costs for the company.

Online shopping is an advantage to customers who sit at home and shop as they can by the product and even look at the screenshots of the game or product to see how it looks like, so that when they buy it they know how it will be like. This screenshots on the left shows a cricket game that people would want to see and may want to buy but they need to see how the game and look at the quality of the game. This game is sold at ...