Information technology (IT) has become a vital and integral part of every business plan.

From multi-national corporations who maintain mainframe systems and databases to

small businesses that own a single computer, IT plays a role. The reasons for the
omnipresent use of computer technology in business can best be determined by looking at
how it is being used across the business world.

Hardware Software

Hardware is a physical parts Software is a set of instruction that

computer that cause processing of tells a computer exactly what to
data. do.

It is manufactured. It is developed and engineered.

Hardware can not perform any task software can not be executed
without software. without hardware.

As Hardware are physical We can see and also use the

electronic devices, we can see and software but can’t actually touch
touch hardware. them.

It has four main categories: input It is mainly divided into System

device, output devices, storage, software, Programming software
and internal components. and Application software.

Hardware is not affected by Software is affected by computer

computer viruses. viruses.

It can not be transferred from one

place to another electrically through
network. But, it can be transferred.

If hardware is damaged, it is If software is damaged, its backup

replaced with new one. copy can be reinstalled.

Ex: Keyboard, Mouse, Monitor,

Printer, CPU, Hard disk, RAM, Ex: Ms Word, Excel, Power Point,
ROM etc. Photoshop, MySQL etc.