Week 3

Reflection

This weeks lecture was about managing IS infrastructure and services. Within this lecture I learnt what the components of an IS infrastructure were. This included the hardware, software, DBs and the communications or networks and people. We then went into more detail of these components. I learnt some examples of the type of hardware that would be seen on a day to day basis within a business, what they are used for, how many users would be using the type of hardware and what they would roughly cost on today's market. We then went on to talk more about system software and application software. I learnt that the difference between systems software and application software is system software operates the computer and application software deals more with performing user tasks. 

Our lecturer then went on to tell us more about networking and the different types of computer networking there are. Some examples of these include; PBX, PAN, LAN, WAN, etc. This was something I had not learned about before therefore it was very informative. Next my lecturer explained the internet and the world wide web to us, what they were and why we use them. 

Another very informative subject we covered was storage needs and space and facility requirements. This covered how much storage and space a business needs as business collect and analyse vast amounts of data. It also explained the servers that business need to use on a day to day basis and how expensive it can be to run these servers.

In this weeks seminar we learnt how to use excel in more detail by making a time-sheet with the formulas we have been learning throughout the past 2 weeks. This will help in the future to make quick sums and analyse data.

Teamwork

In this weeks seminar our group came up with more effective questions based on the answers we got from our first set of questions we came up with last week, these will help us get a deeper understanding of the businesses problems. As a member of our group was absent we did not get the chance to assign each person a role so we decided we will do that the following week. We may be meeting outside of classes to discuss the project even further and to keep Lauren up to date with what is happening as she was absent.