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Notes The deliverability of their newsletter increased as well. Within an year, their sales increased
to over $600,000 per month.

Questions:
1. Discuss the client strategy for the success of store.
2. If you are the decision maker what would you suggest the client.

5.9 Summary

 IT infrastructure is described in a number of ways, but the elements for describing it
remain largely the same.
 The foundation is formed by the technology components, which human IT infrastructure
uses to provide the required IT services for business needs.
 The IT infrastructure in organizations today is an outgrowth of over 50 years of evolution
in computing platforms. There are five stages in this evolution, each representing a different
configuration of computing power and infrastructure elements.
 Moore’s Law describes a long-term trend in the history of computing hardware, in which
the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has
doubled approximately every two years.

 The concept of the network’s form of organization has been particularly popular with
management writers for its potential to build the flexible organization with the ability to
meet the challenges of a changing and global environment.

 The IT is a basic support that facilitates the co-ordination of different enterprises through
EDI systems, shared databases, e-mail, videoconferences, which will allow them to work
together.
 Enterprise level software is software which provides business logic support functionality
for an enterprise, typically in commercial organizations, which aims to improve the
enterprise’s productivity and efficiency.
 Some enterprise software vendors using the latter definition develop highly complex
products that are often overkill for smaller organizations, and the application of these can
be a very frustrating task.

 Groupware refers to programs that help people work together collectively while located
remotely from each other.

5.10 Keywords

Enterprise level software: It is software which provides business logic support functionality for
an enterprise, typically in commercial organizations, which aims to improve the enterprise’s
productivity and efficiency.
Groupware: It refers to programs that help people work together collectively while located
remotely from each other.
Hardware: Physical device in a computer system.
Network: A network is a specific kind of relationship joining a particular group of people,
objects, or events.

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