Information Technology and Application Software: A Study on Tesco

Individual report

Abstract
In the modern age, information technology has developed in a very immense way and has
supported the whole economic system of the country with its progression in an exponential
manner. There are several rising updated technology which are innovated to bring easy and
simple life in working for both the personal and the professional use as well. The below report
covers the concepts of information technology and various kinds of application software
accessible for fundamental functioning in an accurate and easy way. Other aspects which are
covered are the ethical and social issues of technology, artificial intelligence and software
development life cycle.

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................1
Different types of Application Software................................................................................1
Ethics and Social Issues of using technology.........................................................................2
Networking Technology, different types................................................................................3
The Artificial Intelligence and its importance........................................................................3
Software Development Life Cycle.........................................................................................4
ANALYSIS AND DISCUSSION...................................................................................................5
Application software and its types used in Tesco..................................................................5
Ethics and social issues in Tesco............................................................................................5
Types of Networking Technologies that used in Tesco.........................................................6
The importance of Artificial Intelligence in Tesco................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Information technology can be defined as the use of computers in order to create and
process the information for storing and retrieving the electronic data. It builds the
communication networks and safeguard the important information from any cyber attacks. It also
creates and administers the databases while troubleshooting the problems faced by employees
while using the computing systems. It is basically the study of computers and
telecommunications which exchanges the information from one application to another. It
manages the technical devices within organization and networks technical areas of the business
(Chege, Wang and Suntu, 2020). The organization chosen is Tesco. It is one of the leading
internation supermarket retail company established in 1919 and headquartered in United
Kingdom. The following discussion is based on the different types of application software and
ethics and social issues of using technology. Moreover, networking technology, artificial
intelligence and its importances with software development life cycle is also covered in the
below report. Application software covered are web browsers, presentation software, graphic
software, spreadsheet software, word processors, database software, multimedia software,
education software, information software and content access software. Ethical and social issues
covered are the misusing of personal information, misinformation and deep fakes, lack of
acceptance of responsibility and oversight, use of artificial intelligence, autonomous technology,
access right, harmful actions, patents, copyrights and trade secrets. Types of networking covered
are local area network, metropolitan area network and wide area network. Importance of
artificial intelligence covered are the automation and enhancement along with the analysis and
accuracy which is followed by the return on investment and better decision making. Stages of
SDLC covered are requirements gathering and analysis and then designing along with the coding
and testing and finally the deployment and the maintenance phase. The below report is finally
concluded with proper conclusion drawn on the entire report.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Different types of Application Software
According to Mtsweni, Mokwena and Moeti, (2021), there are different types of
application software. Web browsers is one of the application software. It helps in the simple
surfing via internet. It can be used to rapidly locate the information through the web.
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