Wednesday, October 9, 2013

How Enterprise Computing Help Various Industries?

Enterprise computing is getting popular more than. A few industries, however, are still not using computing technology in their company and rely on manual work. Why computing has took a prominent place in various industries? What are the major industries using computing?

In this article, we will discuss the major industries using computing technology for their business operations.

Retail industry – Manual accounts were being maintained before computing technology came. But now most retail owners are able to expand their business with in short time.
  • By using computers and technology it has made possible for retail owners to serve and retain their customers more efficiently. In the past, cash was the only way to accept money from customers, but now businesses can either take money in the form of cash or using credit/debit cards.
  • Retail owners used to spend a lot of time to calculate the amount they get each day. Today, they can do it within a few seconds. They need to enter the details directly into the system and store them in files. With use of computing techniques, it has made it easy for individual retail owners to the the job simple and easy.
  • Computing helps businesses stamp specific symbols on products, owners are able to maintain a track record of their goods and services, salaries given to workers, loss and profits in business, etc.
    claims management software
  • Offline service is the only choice for their business earlier, but now because of computer technologies, they can operate business even online.

Manufacturing industry - Manufacturing industry involves in vestment in big amount. Any error committed by one person affects overall progress of manufacturing business. It is the computing that help these owners avoid those minor errors that could otherwise affect them severely.
  • Manufacturing involves design, plan and the method to proceed to manufacture a single product. It becomes difficult to maintain information of all manufactured goods precisely.
  • By using computing data related to whole manufacturing process - records of manufactured goods, products still under manufacturing process, imports and exports, expenditure and profits, salary records, services and customer list can be stored accurately.

Service sectors – Computing finds application service sector widely. Service sector is the main factor that decides the fate of business. Whatever business you do, if you fail to reach you customer in offering better services than others, it is of no use in doing business further.

Using computing, service sector is able to create records based on priorities - what is to be done now and later. They are able to respond quickly to complaints from customers, and resolve them fast. Maintain information about services to old customers, new customers, list of services they provide etc.
  • Computing allows easy interaction with customers and makes them available with updates about the services in offer.

Government sectors – It is positive sign that government sectors are showing equal interest as private sectors. Handling government efficiently is a very big task, because inefficiency reflects on public. It is responsible to increase economy and offer public services.
  • It is some what difficult to maintain records in various departments like accounts, insurance, banking, tourism etc. Though many people are involved, it is time taking and cannot expect 100% efficiency from manual work.
  • Computers have taken role of human beings and are responsible for progress in working strategy of government.

Educational institutions – It has become some what tough to maintain history of data of students of . Computing help in maintaining records of staff, administration and finance department data, details of student fees, scholarship etc. 

Transport industry – It is cumbersome to enter details of each person and goods each time and security of this data is also a important. Computing allows transport owners to maintain bills, ledgers, details of customers, vehicle transport places, date and time of transported goods, etc. It makes their job simple, easy and fast to execute.

Computing is important for businesses across industries. It is sensible for businesses to adopt computing and improve their performance.

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