Electronic Document Management (Docustore Application)

Τίτλος

Electronic Document Management (Docustore Application)

Θέμα

Computer software--Development

Management information systems--Design and construction

Δημιουργός

Alexiou, Angelos

Πηγή

Higher Technical Institute

Το πλήρες κείμενο είναι διαθέσιμο από το Υπουργείο Ενέργειας, Εμπορίου Βιομηχανίας και Τουρισμού.

Εκδότης

Library of Cyprus University of Technology

Ημερομηνία

2002

Δικαιώματα

Απαγορεύεται η δημοσίευση ή αναπαραγωγή, ηλεκτρονική ή άλλη χωρίς τη γραπτή συγκατάθεση του δημιουργού και κάτοχου των πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων.

Μορφή

pdf

Γλώσσα

en

Τύπος

text

Αναγνωριστικό

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Σύνοψη

We are living in a world that everything in our life has become electronic, or
further more, everything has become computerized. From a small personal note,
to a professional medical program, and then to a sophisticated satellite tracking
machine, everything is controlled by a different level of computers, depending on
the significance of its application!
One of the major abilities of \he human being is the tremendous ability to
communicate with other humans beings. In nowadays, even this tremendous
communication between us has also become electronic - computerized. And this
is done, not through a large intelligence machine, but through a personal
computer on the desk in our office, home, or any other places we like.
Since the 1980's, where the phrase "Personal Computer" began to born, a
great increase of technology was observed. The first company who introduced
the personal computers was IBM. This new idea causes an enthusiasm to the
rest of the world, and so the competition between the companies all over the
world was started.
The first personal computers had limitation to their functionality, speed, size
and, of course, price. For example, a great personal computer of those days
could be of more than 4 square meters area, weighting more that 10kg, having a
black and white monitor, and be able to work a long time to perform an action!
Through the years, personal computers have developed their own
technology and philosophy, which actually gave them the power to be
everywhere in the world, controlling our lives. They can perform million of
functions simultaneously, and they can give any desirable result in no time.
People saw these revolutionary improvements and so, the implementation of
them though our life was not taken a long time. In a very short time, the
spreading of computers was so dramatic that, we can say there are computers in
almost every place in every building, all over the world.
Internet, the biggest computer network in our world, gives the ability of
computers through out our world to be interconnected, and to exchange
information between them. Internet was born a couple of decades ago, and it
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Chapter 1 Problem Definition - Proposed Solution
was a network, designed to support military research in United States. As
Internet was growing up, more and more universities, companies, and others
were joined and we have now what we call today Internet.
The great increase of the speed of personal computers, gave them the
ability to work with large amount of information quickly. Also, with the rapid
development of the Internet, people saw its capabilities and decided to use it as a
source of information that is very fqst and especially almost cost-free.
A personal computer in our days can perform a lot of actions, which some of
them can not be made easily. Also computers support multitasking. Using a PC
you can do your work, whatever it is, in every category, communicate with
anyone in our world, be entertained by listening to mUSiC, watching movies,
playing games, and so much more!
1.2 Problem Definition
Some years ago, John Naisbett's, famous phrase about data was: "We
are drowning in information, but starving for knowledge". This takes on more truth
with each passing day in our daily life.
Most of the people using their personal computers, have years of data on
documents, spreadsheets, etc. saved not only in their computers, but also their
houses, offices, or anywhere else, and the location of them can sometimes be
extremely difficult! So ironically, as more and more piles up around us, we can
say that "the more data there is, the less information we have"! Let's give an
example of this.
We all have been in front of a computer, creating a document or even a
set of documents for our business, school, or even sometimes a personal note.
As we are creating more and more documents, or better saying, having more and
more information stored, we finally discover that all our information, not only
documents but spreadsheets, pictures, video, music, etc, is placed almost
everywhere within our computer storage device, resulting in difficult to locate
them, sometimes.
A very fast and inexpensive solution of this, is to save all this information
on removable disks and place them as near of the computer as we can. In a very