EMERGING

TECHNOLOGIES
FOR BUSINESS
PROCESSES
OFFICE APPLICATION TOOLS

• Microsoft Office – a family of powerful office applications that support

various business processes.
• MS Office helps simplify basic office tasks and improve work productivity.
Each application is designed to address specific tasks, such as word
processing, data management, making presentations and organizing emails.
MICROSOFT WORD

• is a word processor that lets users make and edit text documents, such as
reports, letters, and résumés and run spell-checks on writing
• A word processing program that is designed for both Windows and Mac
operating systems
MICROSOFT EXCEL

• Is an electronic spreadsheet program that helps you store, organize and

manipulate data by creating simple to complex spreadsheets
• A spreadsheet program that includes features such as calculation, macro
programming, and graphic tools
MICROSOFT POWERPOINT

• presentation program widely used by employees, staff, and the top

management in business organizations for business presentations
• allows you to visually display information, using anything from basic
slideshows to professional multimedia presentations
MICROSOFT ONENOTE

• OneNote is a digital note-taking app that provides a single place for

keeping all of your notes, research, plans, and information — everything you
need to remember and manage in your life at home, at work, or at school. In
OneNote, notebooks never run out of paper
• A free-form information gathering program that allows a user
to collaborate with other OneNote users
MICROSOFT OUTLOOK

• Allows you to send and receive email messages, manage your calendar, store
names and numbers of your contacts, and track your tasks.
MICROSOFT PUBLISHER

• is a desktop publishing application from Microsoft, differing from Microsoft

Word in that the emphasis is placed on page layout and graphic design
rather than text composition and proofreading.
MICROSOFT ACCESS

• Is a database management system from Microsoft that combines the

relational Access Database Engine with a graphical user interface and
software-development tools
• A software used to create a database whose main purpose is to organize,
store, maintain, manage data and information for reporting and analysis
COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES

• Computing – the process of utilizing computer technology to complete a

certain task
• Voice and Video Technology
• Teleconferencing
• Computerized Teleconferencing
• Videoconferencing
CLOUD COMPUTING

• Cloud computing – is the on-demand availability

of computer system resources, especially data
storage (cloud storage) and computing power,
without direct active management by the user.
• Large clouds often have functions distributed
over multiple locations, each of which is a data
center.
• Allows a business organization’s data and
information to be stored and accessed virtually
MOBILE COMPUTING

• is a technical field that covers the design,

development and evaluation of mobile
applications using appropriate solutions that
meet user requirements. This includes
learning the technology that is used to
perform a wide variety of tasks on devices
that are portable. Portable devices include
Smart Phones, Tablets, Laptops, wearable
devices, vehicles etc
 GREEN COMPUTING
• is the practice of maximizing energy efficiency and
minimizing environmental impact in the ways computer
chips, systems and software are designed and used.
Examples of green computing:
• Purchasing from Environmentally Committed
Companies.
• Participating in Electronic Recycling Programs.
• Deploying Virtual Technologies.
• Limiting Printing and Recycling Paper.
 GRID COMPUTING
• Is a computing infrastructure that combines
computer resources spread over different
geographical locations to achieve a common
goal. All unused resources on multiple
computers are pooled together and made
available for a single task
 GRID COMPUTING
• Is a computing infrastructure that combines
computer resources spread over different
geographical locations to achieve a common
goal. All unused resources on multiple
computers are pooled together and made
available for a single task
 INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT)
• describes the network of physical objects—
“things”—that are embedded with sensors,
software, and other technologies for the
purpose of connecting and exchanging data
with other devices and systems over the
internet
 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
• Is the simulation of human intelligence
processes by machines, especially computer
systems. Specific applications of AI include
expert systems, natural language processing,
speech recognition and machine vision

• Maps and Navigation. AI has • Chatbots.

drastically improved traveling. • Digital Assistants
• Facial Detection and Recognition. • Social Media
• Text Editors or Autocorrect. • E-Payments
• Search and Recommendation • Self-driving cars
Algorithms.
 MACHINE LEARNING
• A subset of artificial intelligence (AI) and
computer science, machine learning (ML)
deals with the study and use of data and
algorithms that mimic how humans learn. This
helps machines gradually improve their
accuracy.

• Recommendation engines • Medical diagnosis

• Business process automation • Stock market trading
• Spam filtering • Speech and image recognition
• Malware threat detection
• Predictive maintenance
• Virtual personal assistant
 BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
• Is software that ingests business data and
presents it in user-friendly views such as
reports, dashboards, charts and graphs
• Business intelligence includes data analytics
and business analytics but uses them only as
parts of the whole process.
• BI helps users draw conclusions from data
analysis. Data scientists dig into the specifics
of data, using advanced statistics and
predictive analytics to discover patterns and
forecast future patterns.