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Applications

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Applications

- [Instructor] If you've been struggling through this chapter because you can't find a close link between buying a computer and your company's strategy, thank you for hanging in there; you're going to like this video. This is where we start to talk about the part of technology that specifically supports what you do. This is the part of technology selection where occasionally the users know more than IT. At least, until IT starts doing their homework. This is about the programs, applications, or just apps, that your employees need to do their jobs, and sometimes they can be very specialized. Whether you're an industrial designer using CAD software, a graphic artist using image-manipulation packages, or a private accountant doing bookkeeping for multiple clients, you have software that may well be the primary reason you bought a computer in the first place. Just like the platform helped refine the choices of hardware, your applications will narrow the list of workable options for both…

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