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Chaptter 4

Sofftwaree applicationns

4.1 Inntroductioon

For youur exam, you need too be able too discuss tthree specific softwarre applicattions.

Software applicattions are computer pprogrammees that are designed tto help useers with
certain tasks.

4.2 Spreadsheeets

Spreaddsheets aree designedd to analyse data andd sort lists of items, nnot for longg-term
storagee of raw daata.

Advanntages D Disadvantaages

 Relatively easy to usse   Data mmust be ree-copied ovver
and ovver again tto maintainn it in
 Require litttle trainingg to get separate data filles
sstarted
  They are unablee to efficienntly
 Most data managerss are identiffy data erroors
ffamiliar witth them
  Lack oof detailed sorting annd
 CClose bondd to workfoorce querying abilitiess

  Theree can be shharing violaations
among users wisshing to view or
changge data at tthe same ttime

  They are often rrestricted too a
finite nnumber of records, aand
can reequire a larrge amounnt of
hard-ddrive spacee for data
storagge

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