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Software Development

It can be defined as a set of computer science activities dedicated to the process of creating, designing, deploying and supporting software. Software itself is a set of instructions or programs that tell a computer what to do. It is independent of hardware and makes computers programmable. (IBM)

Mark Andreessen, one of the pioneers of the net, wrote into a journal for Wall Street back in 2011 saying that " Software is eating the world". What the author means by that is that software is slowly infiltrating and its being used in areas of our life where it had not been used before. Right now, software is present everywhere in our life. It changed the world as we know it, forever. For instance, on our phone we have software that allow us to do almost everything; we have access to news, media, restaurants, shopping, travelling. It is almost unbelievable that we have access on everything we want just from our tiny devices. This is how much powerful software became lately.

Software is not just in our personal life. In business we seen an explosion of different software applications and this changed the nature on how business work. For example, marketing sector. A few years back Marketing and IT department into a company where almost at opposite ends at least metaphorical speaking. In present the Marketing and software domains have a massive amount of overlap (Scott Brinker, 2020).

To have a better understanding on how much software is involved in present in business we can study the next graph (Vailshery, Statista 2022). Here we have a graph to help us observe how software it is being used across business and it's increase for a certain amount of years.

(Vailshery, 2022)

 In my opinion mankind reached an impressive level of comfort. Software allowed us to perform tasks with a minimum of effort, we have machines and tools that do intensive work for us, it helped us to improve security and safety. In conclusion we can assume that as we move to a new age of automation our dependency on software development continues to increase and software's importance is more visible than ever.

References

Andreessen, M., 2011. Why Software Is Eating The World. [online] WSJ. Available at: <https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424053111903480904576512250915629460> [Accessed 28 April 2022].

Brinker, S., 2019. [online] Youtube.com. Available at: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2sNTAaILdA&t=41s> [Accessed 14 April 2022].

IBM, 2022. What is software development? | IBM. [online] Ibm.com. Available at: <https://www.ibm.com/topics/software-development#:~:text=Software%20development%20refers%20to%20a,hardware%20and%20makes%20computers%20programmable.> [Accessed 14 April 2022].

Vailshery, 2022. Average number of SaaS apps used worldwide 2021 | Statista. [online] Statista. Available at: <https://www.statista.com/statistics/1233538/average-number-saas-apps-yearly/> [Accessed 14 April 2022].