Required to design an information system. But I can not understand the differences between software and IP.

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    I think this difference is significant, except for bureaucratic grandfathers, teachers, because the question is rather from the area of ​​sophistry. Those who write software in the vast majority of cases do not care. - DreamChild
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    Information system includes not only software. And not all software can be used in IP. Components of the IC can be a DBMS, content management system, but not a notebook, a sapper and solitaire kyonka. - Dmitry Grigoryev
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    @DreamChild I would argue here, but StackOverflow is not a place for disputes;) I'm afraid that the question will be closed, as a provocative and stimulating flood ... - Ella Svetlaya
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    @EllaSvetlaya, if we all blindly follow all such rules, the site will very soon turn into something very reminiscent of an English cemetery. / IMHO - have something to say to a colleague - say / - avp
  • From the comments you can learn a lot for yourself, perhaps he will be the answer! - laplas

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Software — software — is a group of programs that provide a solution to a certain task (accounting for candy wrappers from candies), running a certain process (viewing photos of cats), the work of a certain department (bookkeeping), etc. This group of programs is nameless, software cannot have its own name. You can not say software "Fantiki", software "Kitty" or software "Accounting" - it simply does not sound in Russian. Instead, they say accounting software wrappers, photo viewing software, accounting software.

Since the software does not have a name, you can always call it something different. Software for viewing photos may well turn into software for viewing cats - or enter into the composition of the rest room software. If the same Windows image viewer is located there, then it will be the same software as you do not call it.

IC is an information system, on the contrary, it is always an individual IP "Fantiki", IP "Kitika" and IP "Accounting" may well exist. However, the photo viewing IC also has a right to exist (here the name of the system is the “Photo viewing IP”). Also for an IP it is not required that there be any unifying feature for its components - the existence of the IP "Fantiki and Accounting" is quite possible, if, of course, such an IP is at least someone needs it.

On the other hand, the name for the IP comes up only to those who distribute it. You cannot buy Fantiki’s IP, and then write in documents that the Candy Eater’s IP was bought - these are completely different IPs, even if they are made up of the same components (although one IP can still be part of another - but usually such ICs are still called not systems, but subsystems).

Another difference between IP and software - IP can contain components that are not programs or data to them. For example, the structure of the IC, which provides passengers at the station train times, may well include information kiosks. The software, as the name implies, can only contain programs, otherwise APO (hardware and software) will be called already.

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The bottom line is that IP is a broader concept than software. At a minimum, an IC, in addition to software, includes operating instructions and other administrative regulations, as well as a specific set of technical means. - avp

Yes, right remark. I would summarize it a little. IP, as a named entity, exists as long as there is a package of documents that defines it. This package includes all sorts of instructions and other administrative regulations.

At the same time, the software does not require documents for its existence.

  • The bottom line is that IP is a broader concept than software. At a minimum, an IC, in addition to software, includes operating instructions and other administrative regulations, as well as a specific set of technical means. - avp
  • Let's say that I have a goal to design an information system of the electronic archive of the center of robotics. The archive stores the projects of the center: the project data - name, code, authors, etc. and attached materials - source codes, 3D models, etc. Is this an information system? - laplas
  • If you make a set of documents for it, then yes. If this is a training task, then an explanatory note in the required format will pass over this very set of documents :) - Pavel Mayorov
  • Many thanks for the clarification! You helped me a lot! - laplas