p their "edge" in today's world has to have a computer system. Businesses usually keep a list of all their employees and clients on huge databases, every report, note, memo or anything else that is of importance is stored on computers. Governments, use very expansive IBM mainframes to keep extraordinary databases of all its population. Schools and Hospitals are other examples of organizations that depend on computers. Businesses depend so much on computers that it is hard to think how they were doing it before the invention of computers. Of course, with the use of computers, Business can be much larger and expand at an incredible rate if the demand is there. The amount of money spend each year by companies on new systems and maintenance of old ones is incredible, companies just can't afford a major "crash" of all their computers, so they do everything that is possible to assure that they are working properly. Computers have become a necessity for businesses, and as time passes by, they will depend even more on them.Computers are necessary for Competitiveness Either you have a small business or a huge one, computers are a "must" to stay competitive in today's world. With the amount of application a computer is capable of, a non-computerized business cannot compete with a computerized one. Computers help the relation between the business and its clients. With a database application, a company can keep track of each of their clients, know which client buys what, know which client buys more and the list goes on. With the rise of the Internet, the opportunities are endless, a company uses the internet to display information about its goods and services, other companies take it one step further and sells its goods and services directly off the Net. Customers can give feedback about a service that he tried or a good that he bought by sending an e-mail to the company he bought it from. Therefore, the Internet is not only a way for Business to i...
