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USE OF COMPUTERS IN BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY

Urvi Thakkar
Std. – IX
Bai M. N. Gamadia Girls' High School

Computer is an electronic device that performs calculations and processes information. It can handle vast amounts of facts and figures and solve complicated problems at incredibly high speeds. The fastest computers are able to process millions of pieces of information in seconds.
Computers can process any kind of information from book titles and customer account number to chemical formulas and words from ancient Greek text.
Computers have become a part of our day to day life and it has become impossible to escape contact from computers. It is essential for every person today to know about computer. Any task that can be carried out systematically, using a precise step by step method can be performed by a computer.

Computers are now affecting every step of human activity and bringing about many changes in industries, government, education, medicine, scientific research, law, social science and even in the world of art and music.
Business organizations were the major areas of computerization. Today most large and medium sized companies are almost totally dependent on their computers for administrative functions. In industry production may be planned, co-ordination of ordinate and controlled with the aid of computer. The computer may also be used to direct the operation of individual machine and also to operate assembly machines which piece together parts of equipment. In industries like chemical and oil refining, the computer can be used to monitor and regulate total processes. They can also be used to control air-conditioning and heating systems in modern multi-story buildings. Businesses depend on computers to handle all kinds of accounting and book keeping jobs. Most large companies have computer to calculate their employees' wages and print pay roll checks. Banks use computers to record the amount of money deposited or withdrawn by customers.

Many super markets have a computerized checkout system, which animates the need to ring up the price of each item. Numerous factories use computers to control machines that make products. A computer turns the machines on and off and adjusts their operations when necessary. In most major industries, computers help executives make important decisions. For example oil companies use computer analyses of economic and geological data to select drilling sites where petroleum is most likely to be recovered at lowest cost. An automakers decision to expand the production of a certain model of car may hinge on a computer analysis of consumer demands and other market conditions. Computers have now become a part and parcel of life.

E-business is one of the easier ways of business. This is also known as electronic business. E-business is done via the Internet. E-business is re-writing relationships between suppliers’ and customers. Computers are playing an important role even in the world of sports & entertainment Animation is used to develop cartoon films. Computers are being extensively used in Multi-Media Applications. Jurassic Park’s Dinosaurs and Aladdin are results of superb graphics and animation produced by computers.