...Week 2 Checkpoint/Organizational Data and Information Daniel Barr XBIS/219 July 6, 2012 Shawn Rieder Week 2 Checkpoint/Organizational Data and Information Based on the information located on the BIRT Sample Database website, the software allows the user the ability to track many aspects of the defined business. It includes eight different tables. Offices, employees, customers, orders, order details, payments, products, and product lines. By using this software program the user can generate reports based on the data entered. The website also includes an ER-diagram which shows the different departments or types of data and how they are tied to other departments. The software allows for data to be entered by multiple sources, such as different stores and incorporates that data and combines that information to give the company a better picture of the entire company. Of course, information generated by data entry is only as good as the data entered. It is critical that companies train employees to correctly enter data into the system. Incorrect data entered into the system will generate reports that will not be accurate. There are several options available for companies. One option would be to purchase software for data management. Another option which is steadily growing is hiring a firm to store your data as well as manage the data as well. References: UOP Library An Overview of Business Intelligence Technology. Communications Of The ACM [serial online]...
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...My analogy will be described on the principles of a mountain to describe voltage, current, resistance, electrical power. These principles will be explained through air pressure, air flow rate, diameter of the mountains, and the total amount of air between the mountains. The chart above is an example the electrical terms, abbreviation, description, mountain analogy, and unit of measurement. Voltage of my mountain analogy is described through the air pressure that is generated from each of the mountains. The current will be the air flow rate that flows from mountain to mountain. Diameter of the mountain will be the resistance and the electrical power will come from the total amount of air that is between each mountain. Analog Modulation are generally use by radio stations and there are 3 types of analog modulation. The first type is amplitude modulation and the higher wave will be 1 bit while the lower wave will be 0 bit. Example if this is below: [pic] The next modulation is called phase modulation and this phase change the starting point of the cycle. These changes happens when the 1 bit to a 0 bit are being transmitted. An example of this is below. [pic] Digital modulation is used in most wireless devices and digital modulation is used more because digital has a lot more advantages over analog modulation. Some of these advantages are better use of bandwidth, less power to transmit, and performs better when other signals interfere. Below...
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...Capstone Checkpoint I think people should play the biggest role in preserving not only our own backyards but the woods, lakes, streams, and wildlife behind the house and in our own home towns and states. But our actions and voices should not stop there. We should always be cautious of our encroachment whether it is structural or temporal. There needs to be a balance with everything meaning that too much of anything is a bad thing not a good one. We should not always just allow those who want to expand in areas or build new facilities to do so. There will always be logging and there will be pollution and wars but we need to think that some of these things are inevitable but we need to think for every action we make we must think on how to clean up and right the wrongs after a war of logging a huge piece of wooded land or increasing the size of a farm. As we grow as a society we also need more food and water but we need to think first that wildlife was there first and so we should their well-being before our own selfish needs and considered the impact of them first. People should most definitely intervene and most people used to think years ago that most of oxygen came from the rainforest when this is not true at all. Between 70-80% of oxygen comes from marine algae not the rainforest. However, most of the world’s most vast ecosystems are in rain forests with the most exotic animals in it. Will this people should stand up and protest because there is no needs for...
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...The best-known way of searching for a document in Microsoft Windows is to click start, click search, click on all files and folders. Once there they can type whatever they remember of the name of the file or just type *doc with that key word all of their word documents will be shown. Another way they can search is through the Auto Recover in Word. Simply go to tools and then options in the file locations tab. Once there double click Auto Recover files and write down the path location, click cancel and then close. Then they can go to their My Computer folder and search for any .asd files. An alternate way to do that is run the search the same way as the previous step but, instead of *.doc type *.asd. One final way to search Microsoft Word is to see if the ‘always create backup copy’ setting is enabled. The way to see if this is enabled is to click on the Microsoft Office Button and then the Word Options on the lower right hand corner and finally click Advanced. Then scroll the headings until they find the Save section, it is close to the bottom of the list. Check to see if the ‘always create backup copy’ setting that is located in the Save section is selected. Word will usually create a backup copy of the document they were working on. The best recommendation I can give a user to help them not misplace documents in the future is to make sure they save that document to a place where they can find it easier. This means to save it, go the file, save as, and then save...
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...Week Two: Checkpoint – Environmental Factors In order for an organization to achieve optimal function, they want to make the most of their surrounds and environments. Four external environmental factors are the economy, the government, the legal aspects and technological advances that are being made. The six internal environmental factors are the employees, distributors, shareholders, suppliers, partners and labor supply. All of these factors complement each other into a “well oiled machine” or a successful function of an organization. Obviously, the external factors can be either negative or positive on the organization’s functionality. The economy seems to be a major factor today. Because of the current economic problems, many organizations are having difficulty succeeding. This is when you must rely on every other environmental factors, internal and external, to make up for it. The government can help with this because of their control of the political climates. This in turn, brings us to the legal side of things. The laws that are in place can prevent businesses and companies from doing certain things. Technology, of course, is vital to the organization’s success and optimal function. It is something that is continually changing and organizations must be in constant competition with other organizations around them. The internal environmental factors can make or break a company. If you have all the external factors going for you, but don’t have the right customer...
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...Week 2 Checkpoint Alonzo Burger IT/242 Adam Moneypenny 4/4/2014 Week 2 Checkpoint The business world is constantly evolving and part of that evolution is the way it uses wide area networks. Business’s often employ several different types of data in order to stay current but also to maximize their profits. On a typical wide area network, three types of medium that often are used are voice, traditional data, and video. Because of the reliance on telephone calls, businesses have many options. A private branch exchange is used by many larger businesses that need more than one employee to have access to a phone call. This is simply a phone switch that is either bought or leased in which a company can control. This gives their employees an easy way to access a certain call from many levels of a facility, but also gives them the option of calling within the network. Voice over internet protocol is using the internet to send telephone calls. A traditional private branch exchange makes use of existing telephone systems while voice over internet protocol instead relies on internet service provider’s network. A private branch exchange can also have voice over internet protocol functionality. Traditional data and video are also things a company may need to use in order to conduct business. Video data is as it implies data that gets processed in the form of a video. Video files can be traditional data files for sending, but streaming services can also be used. A video stream is...
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...Week 2 Checkpoint MM522 1. Question : (TCO A, B, C) Describe a value proposition and provide an example. How important is value to the consumer? Answer: (Chapter 1, p. 13) A value proposition is a set of benefits that companies offer to customers to satisfy their needs. An intangible value proposition can be made tangible by offering a combination of products, services, information, and purchasing experiences. 2. Question : (TCO A, B, C) How would you describe relationship marketing? Why are these relationships so important to successful marketing? Answer: (Chapter 1, pp. 20–22) Relationship marketing aims to build mutually satisfying long-term relationships with key constituents (consumers, employees, marketing partners, and members of the financial community) in order to earn and keep their business. It is important to recognize the need to create prosperity for all these constituents and balance the returns for all key stakeholders. 3. Question : (TCO A, B, C) What are the similarities and differences between holistic marketing and integrated marketing communications? Answer: (Chapter 1, pp. 19–22) Holistic marketing recognizes the breadth and interdependencies of marketing program design, development, and implementation – “everything matters” in marketing. Integrated marketing communications recognizes the added value of a comprehensive marketing plan. A marketers’ task is to create marketing activities and assemble fully integrated marketing programs...
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...Write an essay on ONE of the topics listed below: Recommended length: 5,000 words Submission date: 12 noon, Thursday Week 4 of Term 3 You are recommended to consult the following three Department documents when writing this essay: • Undergraduate Studies Handbook • Assessed-essay-writing guidelines • Essay-marking criteria for Options and Core Modules 1. ‘Zeugnisse guten Willens, zugleich aber wieder Dokumente der Ratlosigkeit’ (Günther Mahal). Discuss with reference to a representative selection of texts from the material in the collection Die Berliner Moderne, 1885-1914. 2. ‘Tatsächlich ist es die Erfahrung der Großstadt Berlin, die Konfrontation eines in der Provinz herangebildeten kleinbürgerlichen Bewußtseins mit der Hektik, der Unübersichtlichkeit, den Massenmenschen, dem Elend der industrialisierten Metropole, aus denen die Entstehung der künstlerischen Moderne, ihr unklarer und widersprüchlicher Charakter verstanden werden können.’ (Jürgen Schutte and Peter Sprengel). Discuss with reference to a representative selection of texts or visual material produced before 1930 that you have studied on the module. 3. ‘Die psychologische Grundlage, auf der der Typus großstädtischer Individualitäten sich erhebt, ist die Steigerung des Nervenlebens, die aus dem raschen und ununterbrochenen Wechsel äußerer und innerer Eindrücke hervorgeht.’ (Georg Simmel). Analyse the significance of Simmel’s essay ‘Die Großstädte und das Geistesleben’ of 1903 for an understanding...
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...The President's Proposal Strengthen border security and infrastructure. - Strengthens and improves infrastructure at ports of entry, facilitates public-private partnerships aimed at increasing investment in foreign visitor processing, and continues supporting the use of technologies that help to secure the land and maritime borders of the United States. Combat transnational crime. - Creates new criminal penalties dedicated to combating transnational criminal organizations that traffic in drugs, weapons, and money, and that smuggle people across the borders. It also expands the scope of current law to allow for the forfeiture of these organizations’ criminal tools and proceeds. Through this approach, we will bolster our efforts to deprive criminal enterprises, including those operating along the Southwest border, of their infrastructure and profits. Improve partnerships with border communities and law enforcement. - Expands our ability to work with our cross-border law enforcement partners. Community trust and cooperation are key to effective law enforcement. To this end, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will establish border community liaisons along the Southern and Northern borders to improve communication and collaboration with border communities, boost funding to tribal government partners to reduce illegal activity on tribal lands, and strengthen training on civil rights and civil liberties for DHS immigration officers. Crack down on criminal networks...
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...Testing Right Form 1. I [pic](be) born in 1944 during the war. 2. My parents [pic]( go) to the cinema yesterday and they hated the film. 3. Did you [pic](find) your course book? 4. What did you [pic](do) during your holidays in the Bahamas? 5. Van Gogh [pic]( draw) beautiful sketches before he painted them 6. The Berlin wall [pic]( fall) in 1989. 7. Why did you [pic]( break) this vase? 8. The Police [pic]( catch) the thieves in Paris near the Louvre. 9. At the restaurant Ben [pic](drink) white wine and ate sushis. 10. What did you [pic]( have) for breakfast? 11. Behind the door , he [pic]( hear) all the conversation. 12. When my father was twenty years old he [pic]( drive) a Lexus. 13. The boy felt angry because he [pic]( be) punished. 14. Two months ago he [pic]( fly) to Los Angeles. 15. Sorry Miss, I [pic]( forget) my book. 16. What did you [pic]( get) for Christmas? 17. Did you [pic](begin) the test at half past nine? 18. He didn't [pic]( hurt) the little boy. 19. The Police didn't [pic]( catch) the thieves. 20. The students never [pic](forget) their homework last week. Ans: I WAS(be) born in 1944 during the war. 2. My parents WENT( go) to the cinema yesterday and they hated the film. 3. Did you FIND(find) your course book? 4. What did you DO (do) during your holidays in the Bahamas? 5. Van Gogh DREW ( draw) beautiful sketches before he painted them 6. The Berlin wall FELL ( fall) in 1989. 7. Why did you BREAK ( break) this vase...
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...Lives in Fences Fences are built to keep life in order, on track and simple. Such as “The Berlin Wall was a concrete barrier that separated West Berlin from East Berlin throughout much of the cold war.” The Berlin Wall was built up to keep two sides separated from conflict, but eventually the two sides overcame that. The Berlin wall was once necessary, but as time went by and the world evolved, so did the people and eventually came down. There will always be fences built up in our lives, but that doesn’t always mean they need to be a barrier and are necessary. There are times when barriers crucial and keeps everyone orderly. In Robert Frosts poem, he repeats “Good fences make good neighbors”. (“Mending Wall”46) Fences are the comfort zones for all people, its their own little privacy. It also could be very crucial in getting along with other because as long as we all have that barrier no conflicts will arise.Robert introduces differences, “He is all pine and I am apple orchard”. (“Mending Wall” 24) Two totally different concept, a pine an an apple, one sweet and one sharp. This is a crucial time to have to have a fence for if they were to cross in each others path it will easily not end well for the differences are so enormous. Fences are always built up to keep something in; whether it be a way of life or simply to avoid conflict. There also comes a time when a barrier is no longer necessary. Robert Frost says, “But here there are no cows. Before I built a wall I’d...
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...Grants are the foundation on which a human service program/agency runs. Without grants the program/agency would be unable to operate. Grants play one of the most important roles in a human services program/agency. Grants are important to a program/agency, because it allows the program/agency to serve their clients. The program/agency clients are dependent on the amount of services the program/agency is able to provide. A grant is an amount of money a program/agency is given to operate sufficiently. Not all programs/agencies are dependent on grants. The reason why some programs/agencies may not need grants in order to operate depends greatly on their financial needs. Some programs/agencies help their clients with expenses such as their utilities, rent, or security deposit. A program that operates on this level would be in need of a grant, because the cost to help clients is greater than say a program/agency that helps with food. Often a program/agency that helps with food is given food through donations. Grants are vital in how a program/agency runs. A program/agency that receives grants may be better able to serve their clients, because they have the necessary funds to do so. Grants are an important part in the human services field. Without grants a program/agency might not be possible. Tee, you did an excellent job on this assignment. You have a clear understanding of the role and importance of grants in the human services. Nice work!...
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...Capital Expenditures & Revenue Expenditures Veronica rowe XACC/291 Jan 29, 2014 Shontell Chrisman Capital Expenditures & Revenue Expenditures Capital expenditures; a sum spent to procure or development of a long term asset, such as buildings or equipment. Under normal accounting methods the cost is put under equipment, plant, property. Everything except the cost of land can be charged as depreciation expenditure over the useful life of the asset. Capital expenditures are put on financial report as an asset on balance sheet. Capital expenditure rewards are spread over several accounting periods. Capital expenditures can include replacement cost to delivery cost, legal charges and everything in between. Revenue expenditures; are amounts distributed out instantaneously, they match entries of the existing accounting period. Scheduled maintenance is a revenue expense, because they are charged without waiting to an account like maintenance and repairs expenditures. Major repairs do not affect the life of the asset. Revenue expenditures are put on financial report on the income statement. Revenue expenditures may include maintenance charge, repair, and renewal and everything in between. Both are classified as assets. The difference between the source of Capital and Revenue expenditures is special, because Capital is comprised of cost related to fixed assets, and Revenue expenditures affect is temporary, they come often and contains no physical presence, and does not...
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...In Your Own Words Jeremy Harlow IT 241 Allyson Heisey The Analogy of Voltage, Current, and Resistance There are three primary characteristics that describe the nature of electrical flows. The first characteristic is voltage, which refers to the amount of electric potential the electrons have in a circuit. It is sometimes called e.g. or electromotive potential, the amount of force exerted on the electrons. For example, a battery is a source of DC voltage. If an analogy is drawn toward a waterfall, the voltage would represent the height of the waterfall from which the water is falling. More is the height of the waterfall, more is the potential of the water at the top of the waterfall, and more is the kinetic energy that reaches the bottom. The second primary characteristic of electricity is current, which is measured in amperes. Current refers to the electrical charge from electrons through the flow of holes that leads to current. As in the waterfall analogy, the rate at which the water is falling is similar to the current flow in a circuit. The third important characteristic of electricity is resistance, which refers to the amount of opposition to the flow of electrons. Higher is the value of resistance in electrons flowing. According to OHMS, these three characteristics are related by the equation V=I* R [pic] Analogy of the OHMS law with the water flow model. Analogy vs. Digital...
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...The manager of the Super Supermarket would like to be able to compute the unit price for products sold there. To do this, the program should input the name and price of an item and its weight in pounds and ounces. Then it should determine and display the unit price (the price per ounce) of that item and the total cost of the amount purchased. You will need the following variables: ItemName (a String) Pounds (a Float) Ounces (a Float) PoundPrice (a Float) TotalPrice (a Float) UnitPrice (a Float) You will need the following formulas: UnitPrice = PoundPrice/16 TotalPrice = PoundPrice*(Pounds + Ounces/16) Analysis Process: 1. Display a program title. 2. Prompt for the item name. 3. Prompt for the price of the item. 4. Prompt for the weight in pounds. 5. Prompt for ounces. 6. Convert pounds to ounces and add it to the input ounces. 7. Divide total price by ounces. 8. Display the price per ounce. Input: Item Name (string: item Name) Item Price (real: price) Item Weight in pounds (integer: pounds) Fractional ounces (integer: ounces) Output: Unit price (real: unit Price) Design Main Module Declare item Name as String Declare price as real Declare pounds in integer Declare ounces as integer Declare unit Price as real Write Unit Price Program Write This program computes the unit price for an item Call Input Data Module Call Perform Calculations Module Call Output Results Module End Program End Main Module Input...
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