Computer Information System

FUTURE OF IT

Trends in technology hardware , software , new application to CRM , ERP and Supply Chain Management The word IT (Information Technology ) has gained colossal popularity over the year and today , can almost be regarded as a basic necessity for most walks of life . Whether it 's in the field of business , or medicine engineering , customer relationship management or even architecture information technology forms the back bone for us to stay in touch connected and competitive in today 's fast moving world

If we look back at the inception of information

technology , we can say that man has come a long way since then , and today we stand at a point where the role of information technology for us is analogous to a life saving drug

Most of us are aware of major technological breakthroughs , therefore we are not going to waste our time going into historical details . The purpose of this article however , is aimed at focusing on the future trends in the field of information technology , how it will affect us its role in Customer Relationship Management (CRM , Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP ) and Supply Chain Management

Information technology by far is the most dynamic fields , making new breakthroughs almost every second . It is therefore very important for us to keep ourselves updates with these breakthroughs in to stay ahead and make our lives easier . In this dynamic world of information technology , if one is asked to focus of future trends in hard ware and software (Long , 2005

Keeping in view the recent launch of iPhone 3G , the slimmest note book by Apple , the trend towards slimmer mobile phones , one can say that the future of hardware can be described as a race against each other to achieve smaller gadgets with more memory , supporting more application In terms of software , we have seen the new Windows Server 2008 , and the new hype about the virtual revolution , which intends to dramatically revolutionize corporate computing . In a nut shell it uses less servers it 's cheaper , faster and makes things simpler . It also offers freedom to its customers , giving them the leeway to choose products of different companies for example a database or a data storage system using the products of two different organizations (HARDWARE , 2005

Also when talking about trends in information technology , one cannot literally isolate hard ware , software and CRM applications . What this really means is that CRM and ERP are implemented through software modules , It is just a like a group of softwares or modules , e .g . for customer management , we have CRM , where it 's all about being there with the customer through say mobile technologies , since the customer doesn 't have time to come visit you , you have to be available for them so the customer is able to pay bills through his mobile phone by a simple text message . This was one of the day to day example recent software trends In a corporate world however , things are a little more complicated (Long...