FIELDS
- Health Care
- Finance
- Scienc
- Government
- Publishing
- Travel
- Education
- Manufacturing
EDUCATION
- Application -Self Access Learning,Distance learning,Web-based Learning
- Example -Portal Self Access Learning
GOVERNMNET
- Application- Purchasing of assets, Planning and budgetary control electronics,Office automation
- Example- myGovernment,e-Perolehan
HEALTH CARE
- Application-Telemedicine,Telesurgery
- Example- MedlinePlus
FINANCE
- Application-On-line banking
- Example-maybank2u.com
SCIENCE
- Application-Teleconferencing
PUBLISHING
- Application- Digital Magazine,Digital newspaper
- Examples-Utusan Online
TRAVEL
- Application- On-line hotel reservation,On-line ticket reservation
- Examples-AirAsia,Malaysian Airline System(MAS)
MANUFACTURING
1.1 DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
DEFINITION:
Information technology or IT can be defined briefly as the use of computer hardware and software to store, retrieve, and manipulate information.
STAND ALONE:
- A desktop or laptop computer that is used on its own without requiring a connection to a network.
MAINFRAME:
- A large, expensive, powerful computer that can handle hundreds or thousands of connected users simultaneously.
CLIENT SERVER NETWORK:
- An architecture in which the user's PC (the client) is the requesting machine and the server is the supplying machine, both are connected via a network such as the Internet.
DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING:
- A type of computing which different components and object comprising an application can be located on different computers connected to a network.
CLOUD COMPUTING:
- An Internet service that provides computing needs to computer users.
