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16:27 Feb 11, 2020 |
English language (monolingual) [PRO] Tech/Engineering - IT (Information Technology) | |||||||
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5 | business informatics |
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5 | information technology for the needs of / as used by businesses |
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business informatics? business informatics Explanation: The term is already widely used official term as you can see it's already used in Australia: https://www.canberra.edu.au/coursesandunits/course?course_cd... https://www.canberra.edu.au/coursesandunits/course?course_cd=706AA |
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business informatics information technology for the needs of / as used by businesses Explanation: as opposed to Information Technology used for scientific research / weather forecasting / modelling of all sorts etc... One example: CERN is a heavy user of IT, but the IT related to their research is not "business informatics". -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 6 days (2020-02-18 03:14:21 GMT) Post-grading -------------------------------------------------- interesting read: The History of Computers in Business .... https://bizfluent.com/about-5299598-history-computers-busine... Pretty inevitably, once usable and fast improving Information Technology started being used in Business, there was a need for a new type of IT specialists oriented to that new kind of use for IT, who needed to know not only the logic of programming computers but also to understand the inner workings of a business, thus "business informatics" appearing in the university curriculum no later than the 1960's. |
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