Information Technology in Business

Part 2 - Information Technology in Business

Introduction

Business today is very fast as compared to the past. New technologies are invented to make business more quick and vast and reliable. Here, Jack has budgeted to spend $25,000 for hardware and software. However, Jack will be delighted if you can acquire the hardware and software in less than the budgeted amount. You will need to keep this in mind when you make your recommendations. This budget does not include communications media or the cost of the ISP set-up. It is expected that the router/modem will be free as part of the set-up package currently being offered to new ISP customers. We will have to look out for proper business software, IT or computer machines and have to manage it within the proposed budget of 25,000. Initially we will discuss the aspects and then we will try to manage it within the given budget.

Discussion

Wireless networks provide remotely located users with access to the Internet and to company information via LANs without confining them to enclosed spaces. Advanced network equipment technology allows components to communicate using protocol languages. Wireless technology, which has already changed the concepts of network design, will continue to evolve toward greater standards of speed and distance (Willooly, 86). Wireless networks in Scandinavia are beginning to expand their capabilities. Broadband systems are going wireless in Denmark, similar to the way that Digital Subscriber Lines and cable modems presently supply boosted network services to individual consumers. Using a new technology called Multi-channel Multipoint Distribution Systems (MMDS), companies can use antennas on top of homes to communicate with cellular towers within distances of 30 miles. In the near future, wireless broadband systems will become a reality, solving the issues of distance, speed, and security that currently limit wireless networks (Harbaugh, 71).

Technological changes, particularly the developments in digital and wireless technologies and mobile and internet services, create the possibility of work being done at any place and time. Hamill and Lasen (2005) called this the “digital revolution” and found three key features that characterize digital technology. First, it reduces text, sound, picture, and film information, which leads to the convergence of devices. Second, it is easy to store information, which with increasing miniaturization means that it is cheap to store large quantities of data. Third, information is easy to transmit and reproduce (Brown, 2004).

Background of ERP

An enterprise asset designing (ERP) scheme is an enterprise administration scheme normally organized with computers. The aim of an ERP scheme is to incorporate and coordinate a kind of enterprise encompassing payroll, components administration, value administration, plant upkeep, sales and circulation, task administration, and human assets management. ERP schemes find their sources to components obligation designing (MRP) schemes, which developed in the early 1970s. The MRP scheme was conceived to assist constructing associations design their output and procurement procedures and was initially believed as an entails of identifying what material should be organized and when the alignment should be placed (Bradford, 2003).

Subsequently, MRP schemes developed ...