Computer Applications in Management

This book has been written with the sole objective of providing exposure on various facets of computers and their applicability in managing an organization to students. This will also enable them in identifying various functional areas where computers and communication plays a vital role. The focus of the book is not merely on theoretical explanation of various concepts but relating them with the real life business situations thereby facilitating the business processes. The book therefore aims to serve a wide array of students of under-graduate and post-graduate courses in business management, computer applications and other related streams. It will also come in handy for business managers, computer professionals, and almost all categories of end users, etc. The book is divided into five broad parts covering thirteen chapters. The Part-I provides theoretical foundation of the subject of computer covering, hardware, software and storage devices. Part-II of the book covers the most relevant application software packages a prospective manager is required to be familiar with in today’s competitive business scenario. Part-III of the book discusses the underlying concepts in data communication and networking. Part-IV of the book enables the readers to use. computers and communications fundamentals as a problem solving tool by developing application systems. The last part, i.e. Part-V of the book deals with most sensitive issue having impact on the survival of computers and communications systems i.e. Security and various ways of handling them. The book also provides a comprehensive Glossary that is almost essential for better understanding of the concepts covered in the entire book.The book covers the entire syllabus of the compulsory paper "Computer Applications in Management" developed by UGC as model syllabus for adoption in MBA programme conducted by universities in the country. Over and above this, the book also covers certain technologies that are relevant in present day context thereby providing the necessary value addition to the students.