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The Software Considerations for Business lesson looks at four places new software can have an impact.
The device: meeting the minimum requirements is not enough if the programs already running leave too little CPU, RAM or storage for it.
Other devices and the network: a security hole in one program puts every device it can reach at risk, and a cloud app that one user runs fine can fill the internet link when many users run it at once.
Operations: a department may have to change how it works to use the software, and IT has to support every program on every device it installs it on.
The business: company security policy, what customers demand, and whether the company works as one. The lesson's example is shadow IT: departments that chose their own instant messaging apps without IT, so an urgent message sent through the official system never reached them.
Drag each card into a bin, then check your answers.
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