End user

  • In economy, the end user is the person, physics or morals, who will consume a manufactured good put on the market. In the distribution system of a product, the producer is the first chain link, the end user being the last whole, the distributers, more or less many according to the type of circuit, undertaking as for them to make forward the product of the producer to the user.

  • In Data-processing, within the framework of the development of a Software , the end user is the person who will use the aforementioned software.

  • In French, plural is end-users

Problems arising from the concept of end user in data processing

The Développeur S can have sorrow the needs of this user. This can be explained several manners:

  • the developers know the operation of the software, whereas the end-users not specialists generally regard it as a block box, closed system whose wheels are unknown for them.

  • the users can be rejected by the abundance of documentation, or the absence of real teaching approach in this one.
  • the users have sometimes evil to carry out the required efforts with the migration since a tool are with a tool B. accustomed to working on a software, even technologically exceeded, can prove to be difficult to lose, especially if the technical skills of the user are weak.
  • the specialized language of a developer differs clearly from the specialized language of a user - the concept of usual, general or current language, being able, according to certain linguists, to be only one Utopia.
  • Knowing that the development requires a considerable time, the developer can sometimes refuse to call in question its work or to carry out certain modifications too chronophages .
  • the user has only seldom a formal idea of what he wants, while a computing system (in the broad sense or not) is almost always formal.
  • the user can test contradictory needs which a single software could not answer.
  • Although the work of design of the developer can be unsuited to the needs for the end user, it can be able to him to be able to be sufficient detached its work to reconsider it and possibly to modify consequently it.

Legal consequences

To declare end user of a good, it is morally to accept the process having led to creation of this good and to accept all the consequences related to the “life” and on “died” of the good in question - in the case of a good and thus of a software, within the meaning of the intellectual property, the end user accepts all the clauses of a possible license. This type of agreement is generally signed numerically at the time of the installation of a new program, it is the EULA, End User License Agreement , litéralement “licensing agreement of end user”.

Computer security and cryptography

See also: Alice Oscar Bob Eve

As regards computer security and in cryptography, one considers the end user compared to his “legitimacy”, on the assumption of an ethical or legal problem.

Consequently, the end user can be either the legitimate user of the software, therefore the signatory of the license, or the user of an algorithm adversary used to insert a Hidden door in the aforementioned software so as to make a diverted use of it. In certain cases, the end user can be the developer of the software itself, Ci it is this one which installed an hidden door in its program as of its design, with malevolent goal.

This type of addition hidden within the code can for example take the form of a Spyware, intended program to or not collect information, confidential, without the user being informed by it. The spywares can constitute an element of the mercatic Information system of a company, while making it possible to collect information on the Prospect S or customers. It can be a question, inter alia, to encircle the Socioprofessional category by locating the principal centers of interest of a user.

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