...he problem with Compaq is that they developed too much IT architecture using financial advisory, where R&D and openness keys to development and the culture, while ignoring the environment. Open communication and trust was barricaded and destroyed by ASK (financial IS). The workers were being motivated by fear, much like Geneen in Morgan’s Images Of Organization. From an IT architecture standpoint, numbers based on the finance division depicted the entire company, even the organizational structure. The organizational structure did not align with the IT architecture, and the culture did not align with it either. Morgan stated, “The division of labor characteristic of industrial societies creates a problem of integration, or what may be more accurately described as a problem of integration, or what may be more accurately described as a problem of “cultural management.”” Compaq started as a functional structure, changed into a divisional fairly soon and then back to functional. Culture was strongly emphasized over anything else. CASH stated, “The process encompassed a whole range of ideas, including (1) the rule of inclusion, (2) teamwork, (3) “working the issue,” and (4) consensus building.” The IS system at Compaq did allow the free-flow of information through email named “B-mail.” ASK was used for financial services so that the company could easily track orders, and know where it stood financially. The culture felt monitored by ASK operators since it “becomes responsible for...
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...CIS 512 WK 2 CASE STUDY 1 REVOLUTIONIZING THE RETAIL SECTOR To purchase this visit here: http://www.activitymode.com/product/cis-512-wk-2-case-study-1-revolutionizing-the-retail-sector/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM CIS 512 WK 2 CASE STUDY 1 REVOLUTIONIZING THE RETAIL SECTOR CIS 512 WK 2 Case Study 1 - Revolutionizing the Retail Sector The Digipos (http://bit.ly/MOWvG1) Website states, “We design, develop and manufacture our own range of systems that are engineered to meet the challenging and constantly changing demands of a retail environment. Using the latest technologies, we deliver positive, cost-effective solutions in compact, high performance, reliable, and energy saving technologies. Our systems are used by leading retailers around the world.” In 2004, DigiPos launched the DigiPos Retail Blade system, which was the first electronic point of sale (EpoS) system to use blade technology. Go to Intel’s Website and read “Revolutionizing the Retail Sector”, located athttp://intel.ly/NAfWDs. Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you: 1. Examine and assess the main computing problems Digipos faced with regard to system upgrades. 2. Evaluate the solutions that Digipos used to resolve the problem. Propose an alternative solution that you believe could resolve the problem. Compare and contrast the Quantum Blade to the Retail Blade system in terms of computer architecture and system performance. Activity mode aims to provide quality study notes...
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...Bangladesh University of Business & Technology (BUBT) Semester Final Examination Schedule Fall Semester, 2014-15 Campus-2 Date: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 |From 10.00A.M. - 12.00 Noon |From 12.30 PM – 2.30 P.M |From 3.00P.M -5.00 P.M | |Intake |Course No. |Name of Course Teacher | |Intake |Course No. |Name of Course Teacher | |Intake |Course No. |Name of Course Teacher | |Intake |Course No. |Name of Course Teacher | |Intake |Course No. |Name of Course Teacher...
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...P10 CIS 230 Chapter 10 Computer Peripherals Fall 2013 __________________________ are devices that are external to the main processing function of the computer itself. They are external to the CPU. They do not include the CPU, memory and power supply. T/F. The peripherals in a mainframe computer are similar, except larger, with more capacity. They may be 100 keyboards and terminals and a hard drive array. T/F. Computer storage is often conceptualized hierarchically, based upon the speed with which data can be accessed. In the hierarchy of storage, access to CPU __________________________ is essentially instantaneous, since they are actually a part of the CPU. In the hierarchy of storage, __________________________ is the fastest memory outside the CPU. __________________________ is a small amount of fast memory that is used to hold current data and instructions. __________________________ storage refers to both types of RAM, DRAM and SRAM. T/F. Both DRAM and SRAM provide immediate access to program instructions and data by the CPU and can be used for the execution of instructions. __________________________ storage refers to hard drives, thumb drives, CD-ROMs/DVDs and magnetic tape. T/F. Data and programs in secondary storage must be copied to primary storage (memory) for CPU access. T/F. Most secondary devices are mechanical in nature and are therefore slower than primary memory. The only exception is flash memory. ...
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...omECO 204, 2010-2011, Test 3 Solutions This test is copyright material and may not be used for commercial purposes without prior permission University of Toronto, Department of Economics, ECO 204 2010 ‐ 2011 Ajaz Hussain TEST 3 SOLUTIONS 1 These solutions are purposely detailed for your convenience YOU CANNOT LEAVE THE ROOM IN THE LAST 10 MINUTES OF THE TEST REMAIN SEATED UNTIL ALL TESTS ARE COLLECTED IF YOU DETACH PAGES IT’S YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO RE‐STAPLE PAGES. GRADERS ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR LOOSE PAGES TIME: 1 HOUR AND 50 MINUTES LAST NAME (AS IT APPEARS ON ROSI) MIDDLE NAME (AS IT APPEARS ON ROSI) FIRST NAME (AS IT APPEARS ON ROSI): U TORONTO ID # (AS IT APPEARS ON ROSI) PLEASE CIRCLE THE SECTION IN WHICH YOU ARE OFFICIALLY REGISTERED (NOT NECESSARILY THE SECTION YOU ATTEND) MON 10 – 12 MON 2 – 4 TUE 10 – 12 TUE 4 – 6 WED 6 – 8 SIGNATURE: __________________________________________________________________________ SCORES Question 1 2 Total Points 60 40 Total Points = 100 ONLY AID ALLOWED: A CALCULATOR Score FOR YOUR THERE ARE TWO WORKSHEETS AT THE END OF THE TEST GOOD LUCK! 1 Thanks: Asad Priyo Page 1 of 37 S. Ajaz Hussain, Dept. of Economics, University of Toronto ECO 204, 2010-2011, Test 3 Solutions This test is copyright material and may not be used for commercial purposes without prior permission ...
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...Statistical Analysis in the Car Market Course Title: Applied Managerial Statistics Course Number: GM 533 Instructor Name: Susan Orr Student Name: Braulio E. Assis (713-382-8789) Home Address: 3833 Cummins St Apt.1328, Houston, TX 77027 Email Address: edmur_assis2005@hotmail.com Title of the Work: “Statistical Analysis in the Car Market” Date: Aug 19, 2011 Introduction Business managers and owners in the car industry need information on which they could anchor their decision to maximize the company’s profit as well as to ensure efficiency and productivity of the operations of their business. One of these factors is the price, which is one the key determinants of demand and supply. Further, it is essential for them to know the various factors that affect the price of cars and how each of those factors influence the price. This report presents the result of the statistical analysis done in order to identify the factors that significantly affect the price of cars. The asking price is in terms of dollars. The predictor variables considered are the following: whether the car is convertible or not (CONVERT), the age of cars in years (AGE), the odometer reading in miles (MILES), whether the car is automatic or not (TRANS), whether the car has air conditioner or not (AIR), the number of cylinder in engine (CYL), the color (maroon, silver, grey, red, blue, black or white), (8) the model of the car, whether it is a GT model or not, and (9) the ownership which is either...
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...The Brazilian Federal Data Processing Service Michael La Motte CIS 512 Dr. Robert Culver Strayer University 01/13/15 There where news that government officials and Petrobras, Brazil national oil company, have been targeted of electronic spying by the NSA and other agencies, based on the documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff consider this action a breach of international law and the Brazilian Federal Data Processing Service known as Serpro will build a secure email system for Brazil’s federal government. The statement by the Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper said, “We collect this information for many important reasons: for one, it could provide the United States and our allies early warning of international financial crises which could negatively impact the global economy. It also could provide insight into other countries’ economic policy or behavior which could affect global markets.” Brazil over the years pursued close relationships with key U.S rivals like Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba and also because of corruption in 2007 three Petrobras executive where arrested. This will be enough reason for NSA to snoop on Brazil. Information is the key to resolved present and future issues. The Brazilian Federal Data Processing Service was created on December 1964 to help de sector of the public administrator and has improved technologies on several government agencies and is incorporated to the...
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...Case Study 3: Managing Contention for Shared Resources on Multicore Processors By Ja’Kedrick L. Pearson Professor Hossein Besharatian CIS 512 June 2, 2013 Memory contention Memory contention is a state an OS memory manager can reside in when to many memory requests are issued to it from an active application possibly leading to a DOS condition specific to that application. A test was run on a group of applications several times, on three different schedules, each with two different parings sharing a memory domain. The three pairing permutations afforded each application an opportunity to run with each of the other three applications with the same memory domain. The three applications being discussed in this paper are the Soplex, Sphinx, and the NAMD. The Soplex is a linear programming (LP) solver based on the revised simplex algorithm. It features preprocessing techniques, exploits sparsity, and offers primal and dual solving routines. It can be used as a standalone solver reading MPS or LP format files as well as embedded into other programs via a C++ class library. Sphinx is an open source full text search server, designed from the ground up with performance, relevance (aka search quality), and integration simplicity in mind. It's written in C++ and works on Linux (RedHat, Ubuntu, etc), Windows, MacOS, Solaris, FreeBSD, and a few other systems (Sphinx Technologies, 2013). NAMD is a parallel molecular dynamics code designed for...
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...STRAYER UNIVERSITY Mobile Devices Security Week 7 Case Study Professor Gideon Nwatu CIS 502 – Theories of Security Management May 26, 2013 Mobile Devices Security 1. Describe the emerging cyber-security issues and vulnerabilities presented in the “Emerging Cyber Threats 2012” report. Emerging cyber-security issues and vulnerabilities presented in the “Emerging Cyber Threats 2012” report focused on mobile devices. The surge of mobile devices in all facets of human endeavors and its lack of adequate security highlighted the report. According to the report, emerging cyber-security issues that make mobile devices vulnerable are; * In order to improve usability for mobile devices, their applications depend on the browser, which presents exceptional challenges to security. Perfectly legitimate-looking images can hide a malicious link that, when touched, could give an attacker the capacity to spy or steal data. * Attacks target the use of SMS, e-mail and the mobile Web browser by mobile devices to launch an attack and steal data. * Increasingly, mobile devices are being used as storage devices just as USB flash drives and have therefore become the ideal medium to spread malware to protected systems. 2. Analyze vulnerabilities of mobile devices in regard to usability and scale based on your research and suggest methods to mitigate the vulnerabilities of mobile devices. Due to the fact that mobile devices are increasingly being used in the...
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...Engineering United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service Technology & Development Program June 2000 7100 0071-2322-MTDC Choosing Computerized Maintenance Management Systems for Facility Management Wes Throop, Project Leader What is CMMS? and special tools for individual jobs. A CMMS installed on a computer network can be used to manage the maintenance of several remote facilities from a central location. The ability to track historical costs and project future maintenance expenses make a CMMS useful for budgeting. A Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) is a software package that can track, schedule, and organize facility maintenance. It can include equipment history and inventory and also generate work and purchase orders. For very small facilities, paper records may be adequate. For more complex operations, a CMMS can be an invaluable tool for a facilities manager. A CMMS is not intended to replace or duplicate the Forest Service’s INFRA database. Instead, it is a tool to organize, schedule, and track the details of day-to-day facilities management. Many CMMS software packages are available. This Tech Tip is designed to help you select the best system for your particular operation. Selecting a CMMS Why Use a CMMS? A CMMS can keep track of past repairs, schedule future maintenance, and provide a ready list of vendors and parts sources. It can be used to generate detailed work orders for maintenance personnel. These work orders can contain specific...
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...I HARVARD I I IBUSINES s I lscHooL 9-512-085 REV: MAY 25,2012 ANAT KEINAN JILL AVERY FIONA WILSON N,IICHAEI- NORToN EILEEN FISHER: Repositioning the Brand Hilary Old, vice president for communications, was one part excited and one part nervous, so she took a moment to adjust her scarf before she entered the meeting. It was ]anuary of 201,0 and she and her colleagues were about to review the first retail sales results following a major strategic initiative to reposition and evolve the EILEEN FISHER brand. 2009 marked the 25tri anniversary of EILEEN FISHER and the occasion gave the company the impetus to pause and assess its history. The company had enjoyed phenomenal success in its first quarter century: its growth in revenues and profits had been driven by both the skong brand loyalty of its core customers, and the opening of fifty retail stores dedicated to the brand. The company was consistently recognized as oue of the best companies to work for and had an impressive environmental sustainability and social responsibility- record. However, a startling discovery had emerged. The median customer age was currently at 59 and increasing each year, keeping pace with the age of the company's visionary founder, Eileen Fisher. Despite the company's best efforts to design age-less clothing to appeal to multiple generations, as Fisher herself aged, so too had the customer base. The company found itself stereotyped as a brand for older, and, to some extent...
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...Abstract Exposure to high levels of air pollution can cause a variety of adverse health outcomes. Air quality in developed countries has been generally improved over the last three decades. However, many recent epidemiological studies have consistently shown positive associations between low-level exposure to air pollution and health outcomes. Thus, adverse health effects of air pollution, even at relatively low levels, remain a public concern. This paper aims to provide an overview of recent research development and contemporary methodological challenges in this field and to identify future research directions for air pollution epidemiological studies. Introduction It is well known that exposure to high levels of air pollution can adversely affect human health. A number of air pollution catastrophes occurred in industrial countries between 1950s and 1970s, such as the London smog of 1952 [1]. Air quality in western countries has significantly improved since the 1970s. However, adverse health effects of exposure to relatively low level of air pollution remain a public concern, motivated largely by a number of recent epidemiological studies that have shown the positive associations between air pollution and health outcomes using sophisticated time-series and other designs [2]. This review highlights the key findings from major epidemiological study designs (including time-series, case-crossover, panel, cohort, and birth outcome studies) in estimating the associations of exposure...
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...Week 9 Chapter 13 and 14 Assignment #3 Eddie L. Rhoden Instructor: Dr. Janet Durgin CIS 512 May 31, 2012 Kerberos security model: Kerberos is a security protocol invented by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for computer networks. Using key encryption, Kerberos allows both client and server to mutually verify each other's identity in order to safely transfer data over an otherwise unsecured connection. Since its inception, Kerberos has gained the acceptance of numerous major entities and continues to grow. When a user logs in, an authentication service verifies the user's identity and grants an encrypted ticket, which contains identification credentials (such as a randomly-created session key) and only works for a limited time of eight hours. A user decrypts the ticket with his password and the credentials are stored in the user's cache to gain access to the intended service. Once the time is up, the user will have to log in once again and request a new ticket. The ticket is destroyed when a user logs out. Compared to a firewall, which offers protection from outside attacks but limits the actions a user can perform, Kerberos allows a user to continue to safely operate over an unsecured connection by encrypting the data transfer without limiting a user's abilities. Because Kerberos requires mutual client and server verification, it prevents phishing by keeping malicious entities from posing as the server and...
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...Astronomy of the Cosmos – the last frontier, and the data that supports our incessant desire to obtain knowledge about the universe is causing a surge in data storage, replication, and the need for more. How will this community of scientists and engineers deal with what to keep, what not to keep, and how to keep it when it comes to the vast array of data required our use? An Astronomical Surge of Data Degradation in performance should not be the expected course when saving such data. One cannot simply expect that by adding infrastructure as usage increases (common in commercial business enterprises) the problem will be solved. Because astronomy archives generally operate on limited budgets that are fixed for several years, any changes in computer architecture would have to be foreseen and budgeted years early. More so, who do you plan for new discoveries? The current data-access and computing model used in astronomy will be insufficient for future use at the rate it is being collected. Currently, data is downloaded from archives to a local machine to be analyzed. This is done on a very large scale in order to be made accessible to end users. Data discovery, access, and processing are likely to be distributed across several archives (an archive of data warehousing). Given that the maximum that science return will yield from this “federation of data” i.e. multiple archives, a broad wavelength range will be required. Astronomy data is collected and archived in Petabytes...
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...United States Government Accountability Office Report to Congressional Committees June 2015 INSIDER THREATS DOD Should Strengthen Management and Guidance to Protect Classified Information and Systems GAO-15-544 June 2015 INSIDER THREATS DOD Should Strengthen Management and Guidance to Protect Classified Information and Systems Highlights of GAO-15-544, a report to congressional committees. Why GAO Did This Study What GAO Found Since 2010, the United States has suffered grave damage to national security and an increased risk to the lives of U.S. personnel due to unauthorized disclosures of classified information by individuals with authorized access to defense information systems. Congress and the President have issued requirements for structural reforms and a new program to address insider threats. The Department of Defense (DOD) components GAO selected for review have begun implementing insider-threat programs that incorporate the six minimum standards called for in Executive Order 13587 to protect classified information and systems. For example, the components have begun to provide insider-threat awareness training to all personnel with security clearances. In addition, the components have incorporated some of the actions associated with a framework of key elements that GAO developed from a White House report, an executive order, DOD guidance and reports, national security systems guidance, and leading practices recommended...
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