What is IT? Easily explained

In modern PC-focused everyday life, you stumble across the abbreviation EDV. EDV stands for electronic data processing - but what exactly does that mean? We'll explain it to you.

What does EDP mean?

Electronic data processing - EDP for short (also EDP for Electronic Data Processing) - is a very broad term that encompasses all aspects of working with data on computers.

• Data itself is also an EDP-specific concept and simply means everything that happens on your computer. It is the signals that are sent back and forth to represent, change or save information.
• As the name suggests, EDV refers to the processing of data. This can mean writing a Word document or reading a website. In a broader sense, it also describes the processes in the background.
• More broadly, IT specialists are concerned with how data can be efficiently managed in large quantities.
• In small terms, it is about managing your input on a keyboard so that something and preferably the right thing is displayed on your screen.
• The question then is: what data is entered and how do you have to process it in the system and then output it?

IT department in the office

Larger companies in particular generally have their own IT or IT department due to the ubiquity and importance of IT.

• The tasks of the IT specialists are linked to the basic IT task. However, you rarely have to dig deep into your PC.
• The job of many IT specialists is usually to make IT systems available to the other colleagues so that they can easily work with the data on the surface.
• This also includes simpler problems such as defective devices. But it can also go in depth if there are problems with operating systems or programs or, for example, network connections no longer work.
• The management of server farms and the networks as a whole then runs in the background. These are typical applications that you usually only notice when they don't work.
• Further information can be found in the IT encyclopedia.

An essential part of EDP is the EVA principle: input, processing, output. We will explain in more detail what has already been touched on here in the next article.