2.7.1 Computers in Business

• The hard job in commercial computing is not writing word processors...
• ...but to integrate the various business activities - selling, buying, managing, coordinating production.
• The key asset in business computing is the data that the business has built up over the years, generally held in a database management system.
• Business computing therefore has to integrate the front end activities carried out by people with the data held in the databases.
• Changes in the data and requests from the front end must be interpreted according to the business logic.