Computers in Professional Life

Electronic commerce or e-commerce refers to business doing electronically. In this, we can sell or buy things through computers via internet. E-Commerce is by no means a new concept, even though with the internet, the use of e-commerce has increased dramatically. E-commerce has been implemented in different sectors of business like in banking sector; we can transfer the funds electronically. This means that all the transactions are paperless and by use of electronic means such as EDI (electronic data interchange), electronic mail, bulletin boards, fax transmissions, electronic fund transfers and the internet.

Benefits:

• Lower product costs
• Higher profit margins
• Better customer service
• Teamwork
• Productivity gains
• Information sharing, convenience and control

UNIQUE FEATURE OF COMPUTER

Internet is a feature through which we can interrelate to each other. To mention a few of the resources, there are electronic mail (e-mail), file transferring and sharing, online chat, and gaming. The Internet allows people from around the world to share knowledge, ideas, and experiences in any field. 
Advantages of internet:

Faster Communication
• You can communicate in a fraction of second with a person who is sitting in the other part of the world.
• For more personal and interactive communication, you can avail the facilities of chat services, video conferencing and so on.
• It has become very easy to establish a kind of global friendship where you can share your thoughts and explore other cultures.


Information Resources
• Information is probably the biggest advantage that Internet offers.
• Any kind of information on any topic is available on the Internet like government laws and services, trade fairs and conferences, market information, new ideas and technical support etc.
• The search engines like Google, Yahoo are at your service on the Internet.


Entertainment
• Downloading games or just surfing the celebrity websites are some of the uses people.
• There are numerous games that can be downloaded from the Internet for free.


Online Services
• Internet has made life very convenient.
• You can book tickets for a movie, pay utility bills, taxes etc., and right from your home.

The World under Finger Tips

A computer is an electronic device that stores and processes data, according to a list of instructions. It allows a user to manipulate data very easily. The speed of performance of a computer is incomparable. The computer and Internet have affected our way of learning, working, storing information, communicating, playing, and also writing. In fact, computers are used in every sphere of life today.

There are several ways computer can help us in our daily as well as in professional life.

• Exploring writer’s idea: Computers can help to compose your ideas or message and allows modifying it in as many ways as u can.

• Organizing the idea: There are software’s which helps in arranging the content of the topic and it also helps in editing the article.

• Storage device: We can store as number of files in the memory of the computer which is hard to memorize by the individual. We can secure the documents with the specific password.

• Communication device: Computer can act as communicating device in various ways. For example: - Web conferencing, video calling via internet.

• Designing the PowerPoint presentations: Computer can help the professionals in making the PowerPoint slides in a very effective way.