BTM 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Personal Information Manager, Proprietary Software, Productivity Software

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Business Technology Management
• Course: BTM 200
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Software: refers to a set of instructions that tells the computer what to do. Program (instruction set): provides means for us to interacts with and use the computer. Application software: software used to do tasks such as writing letters, paying taxes, editing photos. System software: windows, mac os x, help run the computer and coordinate between application software and the computer"s hardware devices. Productivity software includes programs that enable you to perform various tasks required at home, school and business. Open source software is publicly available and has few restrictions. Popular tool: search and replace allows you to search for text in your document and automatically replace it with other text. Enable you to do calculations and numerical analyses easily. Database software: applications that allow you to store and organize data. Traditional databases are organized into fields, records, and tables. Field: data category such as name, street address. Record: yasmine 9215 milieu (a collection of related fields)