BUA 235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Libreoffice, Flowchart, Barcode

• School: University of Maine
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUA 235
• Professor: Joseph Clark

Document Summary

Powerpoint has created a whole communication style of its own: business processes are sets of activities that can be repeated. ex. Owchart: information systems can support part or all of a process, it systems can also allow us to redesign business processes and eliminate steps (eliminate the middlemen). Spreadsheets: excel is the leading tool for communication, managing business processes, and analyzing data, a spreadsheet called visicalc was the rst killer app that got companies to start buying personal computers in the early 1980s. It replaced a lot of manual calculation for running the numbers and enabled easy what if analysis : few competitors: google sheets, openof ce & libreof ce calc. A brief history of data management: bits, bytes, and files, a sequence of bits creates a le. The trouble with les: too many les can make work confusing for everyone, it gets very complicated.