The ICT systems of Electronic Data Systems (EDS)

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Describing the ICT systems of EDS

The organisation, which I will be describing on how they use ICT is

called EDS, EDS is situated in Milton Keynes. EDS was founded and set

up in 1962 and it is the leading global information technology

services company. EDS stands for Electronic Data Systems. EDS has

approximately 137,000 workers in 60 countries and about 12,000 workers

worldwide. This is 200 workers, which work part time, and 11,800

workers who work full time. In this essay I will describe the ICT

hardware they use. EDS use mostly Laptops for their work because it's

easy to move their laptop from company to company and once finished

their work they put it away into a bag for carrying around.

Software application used

Purpose for using the application

Microsoft Excel

For spreadsheets and managing budget and their sales.

Microsoft Access

For making databases

EDS uses a variety of hardware components is based on many hardware

components. They have a variety of input devices, output devices and

some storage devices. For a main processor they only use one processor

which the Intel Pentium. I will describe more in the paragraph below.

First of all they have input devices; these input devices are

Mouse, Keyboard and a Scanner. They use a mouse for controlling

Windows on the PCs and also to guide them on to where they want to go

and what they want to open, to do this you need something which will

show you where you are, this is shown on the PC by a pointer, which

helps you find and see clearly where you are going to and what you are

doing. The mouse is used in the offices connected to the PCs at the

back of the hard drive by using a USB port and on the laptops given by

the organisation, it has a built in mouse so you put your finger on

the small ball or small pad and guide it to where you want it to go.

The mouse they use is a standard Microsoft mouse.

Another input device is the keyboard, which has keys, which you press

and then send a signal to the computer, and then responds by putting

the text or number into the PC so you can see what you done. They use

a keyboard for entering text and numbers into the screens to either

make documents or spreadsheets. The make of their keyboard is just a

normal standard keyboard.

Another input device, which they use, is a scanner. A scanner is a

hardware device that captures images or text and converts them to a

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