Question

Question 1:                                                                                                                                    

Detail the roles of emerging computer hardware and software platforms in a management information system via an example of a real-life firm. Your answer should include:

• Only one example of a real-life firm. (1 mark)
• Emerging computer hardware in this firm such as: hardware for networking, hardware for storage and backup, distance-working hardware, etc. (3.5 marks)
• Emerging computer software in this firm such as: LAN/MAN software, security software, distance-working software, etc. (3.5 marks)

Answer 1

1) In real-life firm, management information system plays an important role. Let's discuss about amazon. As we all know amazon has a very wide market. There is a necessity that they should get the information on each product, which has been purchased, quality of the product to showcase, number of products in the warehouse,etc. Management information system helps to analyze. And provide the data.

2)Emerging computer hardware:

Basically, computer hardware consist of technology of computer processing and data storage.Each firm has there own mainframe,workstation.

We look at this trends:
1. Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology uses individual atoms and molecules to create computer chips and devices that are taken  as the scale range 1 to 100 nm times smaller than current technologies permit. This helps in many ways to reduce the space consumption, transmission of heat is less.
3. Cloud computing
Cloud computing refers to a model of computing in which firms and individuals obtain computing resources and software applications over the internet . Which is preferred to be called as cloud.Cloud infrastructure as a services: customers use processing, storage, networking, and other computing resources from cloud service providers to run their information system.Cloud platform as a service: customers use infrastructure and programming tools hosted by the service provider to develop their own applications and Cloud software as a service: customers use software hosted by the vendor.

3. The emerging mobile digital platform
Mobile digital computing platform have emerged as an important platform. And many functions of handheld computers, including transmission of data, surfing the Web, transmitting e-mail and instant messages, displaying digital content, exchanging data

Emerging software trends:

Software plays an important role in manipulation, analyzation, predictions and data visualization. Data science is one of the core software studies. It helps to analyze the data. which inturn helpful for predictions.Cloud- Basd Software Tools and Services Such as Microsoft Word or Adobe.1) Mashups is the resulting software application and Widgets are small software programs that can be added to web pages or place on the desktop to provide additional functionally. Big data analytics, is the process of collecting, organizing and analysing large set of data. Always a computer has to be communicated over a network, that might of any kind among this three: LAN,MAN,WAN. LAN is a local area network has a smaller area cover. MAN is a metropolitan area network has network over a large area.Firm will mostly use MAN,WAN why because they have to communicate out of the workspace to satisfy the customer benifits.