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This 17 page paper considers IT in two companies; Microsoft and Siemens Business Services. The paper examines the companies separately, identifying at the central operational concerns of these organizations, how IT currently being used in these organizations to support those concerns and if it could be used more effectively and how the limitation are likely to be influenced by future developments. The bibliography cites 10 sources.
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examines the companies separately, identifying at the central operational concerns of these organizations, how IT currently being used in these organizations to support those concerns and if it could be
used more effectively and how the limitation are likely to be influenced by future developments. Introduction Information technology is an enabling tool for commerce. However, it is also a tool
tat raises many new issues and creates different challenges and barriers. There are many advantages that may be realised with the use of technology, the development of competitive advantages or
the avoidance of competitive disadvantages, increased information flow to enhance the decision making processes. For many companies IT has opened up[ the possibility of providing IT services as well as
using them, creating a new sector and as such IT becomes an operational issue not only in internal use but in the supplier and services that are provided. By looking
at two organisations; Microsoft and Siemens Business Services the main operational concerns can be outlined with the consideration of how technology may be better used and better developed.
Microsoft Microsoft is not just a company using information technology, but a major supplier if software and operating systems. This increases the scope and scale of operational concerns. The issues
that concern Microsoft may be seen as those which are currently seen in the industries that use their products. This becomes an operational issue due to the management of these
issues in the usual operations as well as the more direct operational impact, with the applications used also being effected by the same issues. The main operational issue
is currently that of security. It is noted that computing is a key component in trustworthy computing (Okin, n.d.). However, this is not a issue where there can be
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