Analyzing the Internet's Impact on Business and Society: A Report

This report delves into the multifaceted impact of the internet on businesses and society. It begins by exploring the positive aspects, such as enhanced communication, global market access, and efficient research capabilities, while also addressing the negative consequences, including increased competition, security threats, and the erosion of personal interactions. The report further examines the specific threats organizations and society face, including cybercrime, data breaches, and the spread of misinformation. Finally, it provides an overview of two unified communication systems, Avaya and Cisco, highlighting their roles in streamlining business communications and enhancing collaboration. The report emphasizes the need for strategic approaches to mitigate the negative impacts and leverage the benefits of the internet for sustainable growth and societal well-being.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
1. Positive and negative use of internet to businesses and society..............................................1
2. Threats faced by organisations and society when using internet............................................3
3. Two different unified communications...................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
In today's competitive world, internet plays very essential role which creates ample
number of opportunities to the individuals living within the society. Digital technology is an
important element which create both positive as well as negative impact on the functionality of
business organisation (Andrade and Doolin, 2016). With the help of internet, individuals within
the country communicate with other in less period of time which assist in removing the distance.
In the present report various topics are going to be discussed which includes comparison as well
as contrast the positive along with negative use of internet. It has been analysed that there are
large number of threats and opportunities faced by the organisations which might affect the
overall functionality at the competitive marketplace. In addition to this, a discussion is made
where threats of the company is being faced by internet.
MAIN BODY
1. Positive and negative use of internet to businesses and society
In this modern world technology play key essential role. As with the help of this business
organisations as well as society can effectively perform their operations in best effective manner.
Internet significantly allow society and business to have easy access and connectivity to all
around the world. Negative use of internet within the business organisation whether it is small or
big in nature, could lead to face ample number of issues like decrease among reputation
(Chesley, 2014). Mentioned below there are some positive as well as negative impact of internet
on business and society is being depicted:
Positive Impact of internet on business and society
 Internet offer business organisations and society a formative mode of communication
through which they can share their information via emailing and instant messaging. This
will further allow them to accomplish their objectives in mean time.
 Internet allow organisations to perform their transactions with customers and clients in all
around the world digitally.
 Internet allow organisation as society to perform research in effective and easier manner.
In addition with this access to information and data also facilitates in best effective
manner.
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 Internet allow society to communicate with friends, family and relatives in faster manner.
It allow easy connectivity via different online measures such as Skype and face-to-face
and more (Comer, 2018).
 With the help of internet individuals with society can have access to earn while working
from home.
 Internet facilitate business organisations with faster business transactions and cheaper
products. As with the help of online paying facilities business organisations can pay via
different online payment mode such as Paypal and credit cards.
 Internet help society to shop via different online websites. This will allow them to have
ease to purchase products from all around the world in cost effective manner.
Negative impact of internet on business and society
Adoption of internet has became an important medium in communication in businesses
and society. It also supports company in the execution of organisational activities in effective
manner. But, at the same time it has brought various issues for the company some of the main
negative influence of internet on business as well as society are described as below one after
another.
 There is significant increase in criminal activities on internet along with spreading of
computer viruses. This affect safety and security of organisations and society
information (Danesi, 2014).
 However, internet allow society to connect with their friends, family and relatives via
online mode, it significantly loss the human touch. It has been determined that
individuals nowadays are more involves in internet that they have forgotten to interact
with their loved ones physically.
 As internet provide business organisations to have access to customers all around the
world but due to decrease in overhead cost online retailers can effectively provide
consumers with different range of products at cost effective price.
 Nowadays, mainly all business organisations operate their business online
confidentiality and security become major concern. It has been determined that there is
significant increase in threats activities like e-terrorism, viruses and threats. Breach of
data also increased that low down business organisations confidence level (Dutton,
2014).
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Negative influence of internet for businesses
 It has increased competition for the companies as they are able to approach maximum
number of customers at the same time. Internet has given equivalent opportunities to all
companies which have ultimately created huge competition for all.
 Another drawback of internet for business is associated with the reputation of company.
It can be said that there are probable chances that rival company can use internet as their
weapon in order spoil name of their competitor. At this place, internet work as a
negative factor for businesses as their image might get affected due to any negative
issue of company. This directly declines their sales performance as well as profitability
in negative manner.
Negative influence of internet for society
 It diverts mind of people in the society as there are numerous of options available for
individual at internet which wastes their time as well as growth.
 It might reduce knowledge of individual belonging to the age group of developing time.
At this age, these children prefers to use internet instead of focusing on their studies that
will further contribute in the growth of their career.
Thus, as per the above mentioned discussion it has been identified that internet provide
both negative as well as positive impacts on society and business organisations. Thus, in order to
effectively operate their operations in well defined manner it is essential for them to undertake
the threat elements and frame strategies to overcome them as to decrease the negative impact and
gain more prosperous end outcomes.
2. Threats faced by organisations and society when using internet
In present time, people are living in a society which is continuously responding to
changes taking place in the macro environment. Transformation of internet has lead to many
benefits for people and it has made their lives easier but at same time there are many threats
which can occur due to this internet transformation. Challenges faced by internet is very
challenging and also complex. There are many problems which are faced because of this
development of internet. Such as social media attacks where people are sharing their very
personal information is very dangerous. This leads to risks to their most private information
being getting disclosed publicly. All types of people are present on such social media platforms
which can misuse such information and this increase risk on life of people. Also, there has been
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inadequate technology of security which which might leads to loosing of security of network.
People are relying heavily on the usage of technology which leads to loosing down of relevant
information (Kiesler, 2014). Frauds and malpractices have also increased because of this
development of technology. Nowadays, people are using smart phones to a great extent and
presence of internet on their portable device leads to its use anywhere, which makes it more easy
for people who want to do a misuse of it. Development of internet has been there but there is not
development of adequate security measures which can reduce the disadvantages of such internet
development. Cyber crimes is also a big threat which is been increasing because of this
development of internet, because of this people have many times suffer from huge losses in
financial terms. Piracy is also a very bog issue which has been developed because of internet
transformation. Hacking is a issue which is being faced by people where they loose their
important data to those people who are using it for committing some malpractice or frauds. All
such practises lead to increase in threat for people and the society as a whole. Attempts are being
continuously made by the government and various concerned authorities that they are able to
reduce the negative effects of internet developments. There are so many ways which can be used
by people who wan to use the technology for harming others. All such issues must be addressed
by people and they themselves have to be aware of the different ways in which technology is
misuse to harm them. This will help them in protecting themselves and at same time such
awareness will reduce the threats of internet to people and society and a whole.
There are many measures which people and society as a whole can take so that they are
protected from the negative effects of such internet and technology advancements which are
taking place (Legner and et. al., 2017).
Changing of browsing habits: it is very important for people that they keep a check on
their browsing habits. It has been observed that people use nay site to obtain the information.
This habit of people leads to clicking on some sites which with one click loses down the very
important information. So it is important for people that they must check the authenticity level of
the site which they are suing and then only open. Internet is a endless area which is having no
boundaries, type of information which a person is using must always be reliable to reduce any
chances of threat (Yar and Steinmetz, 2019).
Carefully using the social media: social media is a platform whose usage is growing
and its popularity is also increasing. This has lead to lot of changes in the lifestyle of people and
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the way they are living. There are so many people who are looking for such personal information
and they try to make misuse of this type of information and commit various crimes. So it is
important for people that they must share very limited information and unknown people must
also not be added by them (Margolis and Moreno-Riaño, 2016).
Clearing cookies: people should clear out their browse history and cookie caches this is
a great preventive measure which can help people from loosing down their information. Many
networks use the browning history of people and that information can be easily use anywhere. So
the most important measure to prevent this is to clear out the cache and their search history.
3. Two different unified communications
In present time, there are two unified communications organisations and these are Avaya
and Cisco, that are offering it's clients with phone system that integrates and enables various
communication methods within the business. By unifying phone calls, video conferencing, SMS,
email, Live Chat and so on, users can share and access data all from one centralized location,
collaborate in real-time and hold audio and video conferences with multiple people. Along with
this, it has been analysed that, no matter how big or small a unified communications organisation
is, the right Unified Communications solution can take the business communications to the next
level, helping to improve collaboration, boost productivity, increase mobility and enhance the
customer experience (Nam, 2014).
In present context, if it is talked about Avaya then it is said to be the business
communication organisation that is offering clients with high range of benefits like it offers
customers with simple, affordable and flexible, 3CX has inbuilt UC features included as standard
on-premise or in the cloud, all on one user-friendly platform – no need to purchase add-ons or
extras. Along with this, it is also said that Avaya is said to be the business company which is an
American multinational technology company, whose headquarter is in Santa Clara, California,
that specializes in business communications, specifically unified communications (UC), contact
center (CC), and services. Basically, firm is offering or serving to more than 220,000 locations in
all over the world. Away with this, it is also said that Avaya is said to be one of the largest pure-
play UC and CC company, and is having number one ranking within CC and it is also holding
second position in UC along with collaboration. Including this, it differs from other unified
communications organisations due to the numbers that it is having. In the year of 2017, revenue
which was generated by business company was around $3.3 billion, which most of it's
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considered to be coming from both services along with software. Company was found in the year
of 2000 by Lucent Technologies. Including this, firm is having around 8,700 number of staff
members that are offering customers with high range of benefits in all over the world. If it is
talked about sustainability, then Avaya is holding a good image at international level, as many
business organisations whether they are small or large are continuously offering clients with
different range of applications and many more other services as well (Sariyska and et. al., 2014).
On the other hand, Cisco Systems, Inc. is another American business organisation, which
was found in the year of 1984 and headquartered at San Jose, California, if it is talked about this
company, then Cisco mainly focuses on developing, manufacturing along with selling of
different range of high and low bandwidth networking hardware, telecommunications equipment
and other high-technology services and products. Including this, it is said that firm is holding a
range of subsidiaries like Jabber, OpenDNS, WebEx and Jasper, Cisco also has considered
specialization within the specific tech markets, and this could be anything from Internet of
Things, energy management and domain security. It has been identified that, Cisco is holding
and incorporated or working in all over the world but works from the headquarter, which is
located in California.
Basically, this is the organisation whose services along with products are being sold
among three different market segments and these are service provider, large enterprises, mid-size
along with small business companies. Including this, if it is talked about sustainability of this
business firm, then it is also holding a good hold in the market, where it is continuously helping
clients with ample number of benefits considering their products and services like WebEx,
Jabber, OpenDNS, Jasper and so on. Including this, it is also said that networking that Cisco has
offered is said to be something, which is holding optical, Ethernet, mobility, wireless and many
more, Security, Collaboration (including voice, video, and data), Data Center, and the Internet of
Things (Senft, Gallegos and Davis, 2016).
CONCLUSION
With the assistance of above stated report, it has been concluded that internet plays very
crucial role within a functionality of business organisation. It is very essential for a business
entity to adopt internet so that they can perform their functions in an effective manner. It is
identified that with the help of digital technology an organisation will be able to compete at the
competitive marketplace in an effective manner. In the present environment it is clearly been
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determined that there are both positive and negative impact of using internet within the business
entity. Along with this, it has been said that, organisation face ample number of threat while they
adopt internet method to perform their business functions. All these threats and negative impact
might reduce the over functionality as well as profitability of the company at competitive
marketplace.
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