One of the most important and successful technological advancements of 21st century is the development of IT technology. The field of Information Technology basically involves the acquiring, processing and storing of various data forms by means of computing and telecommunication. Different kinds of data included in the combinations of computing and telecommunications are of textual, pictorial and vocal types. All this information and its processing are based on the study of microelectronics. Developments and advancements in the Information Technology has casted its effects on almost every field of daily and professional life. From household to professional life, medicine to computers, business to sports and even in wars Information Technology has played its role.
Still there is a lot advancement taking place in many fields by using the technologies based on Information Technology. These fields include bioinformatics, emerging web technology of ext generation, handling and acquiring knowledge and database programs, large scale computing of clouds and development of global information system. It was for the first time in mid 20th century that the term of Information Technology was used in business and academic writings. That was the time when its study and knowledge was included in formal education along with many other related studies like those of computer processing, hardware and software studies and other like this.
The need of Information Technology in today’s developing world is in management of information and devices holding this information. These include computers, various software and hardware equipment and much more. In fact this area involves processing and programming of different information systems and programs. In other words all those things which can be helpful in providing any kind of data are considered under the domain of Information Technology. Usually data forms providing visual format of information are dealt with in this field. There are four basic services provided by this vastly expanding technology. These are automation of business, information providing, communicating with the customers and providing tools of productivity.
