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    Spreadsheet Application: Tracking Frequent Flier Mileage (Excel Problem)

    You have recently landed a part-time job as a business analyst for Campus Travel. In your first meeting, the operations manager learned that you are taking an introduction MIS class. As the manager is not very proficient in using office software tools, he is doing all frequent flier mileage in two separate Excel worksheets. One

    Analyzing Server Traffic, Bandwidth, and Traffic

    See attached file. Campus Travel has recently found that its Internet connections between offices are becoming slow, especially during certain periods of the day. Since all the online traffic is maintained by another company, an increase in capacity requires a formal approval from the general manager. The IS manager has propo

    A Day in the Life of a US Software Engineer in 2006

    Imagine you are a U.S. software engineer living in 2006. Start off by describing yourself and your family. Explain the city in the United States where you reside and when your family migrated to the United What do you eat every day? What and where do you usually buy groceries and other household articles? What do you do fo

    Strategies for Avoiding Cyber Attacks

    Discuss: As the following is one of the Core Defense Mechanisms: "Handling attackers to ensure that the application behaves appropriately when being directly targeted, taking suitable defensive and offensive measures to frustrate the attacker" Apps must handle and react to attacks in controlled way such as: - Handling error

    Identify organizations and describe the purpose of each.

    Explore the Web and identify professional organizations that are devoted to database management, data mining, data warehousing and knowledge management. Make a list of these organizations and describe in one paragraph the purpose of each.

    Discuss One Type of Advancement in Production Technology

    Conduct research on the Internet and choose one type of advancement in production technology and discuss the advancement in terms of how it is used, why it is used, and when it became a used production method. Additionally, discuss which organizations are using this production technology and what benefits they may reap from its

    Case Study Infosys Technologies

    I need help with the attached case study. The questions 1, 2 & 3. APA format - about 2,000 words. 6 references. It is due next Monday - So if you could help by Sunday night that would be great. On the third page - I am to refer to figure 10.18 in the paper.

    employee retention information

    How might I apply information technology systems and improvement solutions to employee retention in the nursing home environment?

    Turning Data into Information for Decision Makers...

    Describe the type of data that businesses process and correlate for us how that data is transformed into information. Is it a mostly manual process or automated process? In terms of system integration (or lack thereof), discuss how any comprehensive reports prepared for decision-makers are compiled by your company, past or prese

    Compare the Three Top Browsers: Chrome, MS IE and Firefox

    There are multiple Internet browsers available today, and many people choose which to use without giving it consideration. However, there are advantages and disadvantages to each. Which is the better software tool: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome? Supplement your argument with evidence, and indicate

    Fraudulent Behavior in a Software Co.

    Jason works at a new software development company. The company has been in existence for only two years. Since the company is new, everybody is working extra hours and spending all of their time developing new products that can be sold to customers. Everybody is busy, and there is very little time for manager-employee interviews

    Health Network - Telemedicine

    Individual: Analysis Research Assignment a) Organizations are increasingly using the Internet services and communication technologies listed below to improve the flow of information internally and externally: vi) Collaboration via a health network (workgroup application software, groupware) b) Choose one of the above technol

    Evaluate this new technology for your company

    Case Study : National Courier Company picks up and delivers packages across the country and, through its relationships with couriers in other countries, privdes international package delivery services. Each afternoon couriers pick up packages, The late afternoon, the packages are returned to the couriers's terminal, where th

    Acxiom Corporation Case Study questions on real world activities.

    REAL WORLD CASE 3 Acxiom Corp. has always been good at managing data .Lots of data. By its own estimate, Acxiom manages more than 20 billion customer and prospect records. "We do three things really well," claims Alex Dietz, who is referred to internally as the "products and infrastructure technology leader" and functions as A

    Materials Available for Resource Technology

    visit the web site for PC Magazine, http://www.pcmag.com/ Examine some of the materials available. Read a couple of the articles. Follow up on some of the links. In general, try to understand why the site is organized as is, what the purpose for making this available is, what its value might be to either a corporate staf

    MIS security measures, tools, and strategies

    Assume that you have been asked to consult for a company that has branch offices in four continents. You have implemented a management information system that will enable its managers to exchange information about various company activities in the areas of marketing, sales, HR, finance, and administration. As part of the impleme

    computer-aided data analysis tools and services available to fraud examiners

    Today, many data analysis tools are available to provide assistance to fraud examiners when searching for possible fraudulent activities within a company. Visit the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners' Web site (http://www.acfe.com) and list some of the computer-aided data analysis tools and services available to fraud exam

    Proposal to implement a computer network for health care delivery system

    Scenario: Your consulting firm has been hired to implement a computer network for health care delivery to allow for coordination of care. The medical group is comprised of over 280 physicians that serve over 40 locations. The medical group will need the capability for information to be shared across different health care sett

    Data - distinguishing between data, information, and knowledge.

    This module is about distinguishing between data, information, and knowledge. If these distinctions are meaningful, we should be able to find cases where failing to make the distinction had negative results -- if we can't think of any such situations, then maybe the distinctions don't really matter much after all, but are just w

    Continuous Process Technology

    Discuss: Why is technical complexity greatest with continuous-process technology? How does technical complexity affect organizational structure?

    Computer Technology and the Networked Organization

    The assignment revolves around the issue of how an organization's workspace both shapes and is shaped by the information technology choices that the organization makes. To focus your thoughts on this question, please read the following article: Mary Colette Wallace (2000) Complexity of New Office Designs: Thinking Through You

    Evaluate IT While Preparing Due Deligence Report

    Why is it important to evaluate the information technology while preparing the due diligence report is explained. What due diligence means and when it should be done is explained. How important technology due diligence is to a company and what the results mean are also explained.