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Running a start-up company is a fairly easy task to take with basic business administrative skills. The problem start to arise when the business is showing progress and growth and expansion is imminent. At this juncture of growth, two things unfold for the business. The business earns more profits due to customer base growth, also known as economies of scale and also the business may run into difficulties in the daily running, also known as diseconomy of scale (Ordóñez et al, 2012).
In Simple Gateways, growth is finally a reality and hence creeps in this diseconomy of scale. Communication is vital in any organization or company, and as such it is paramount that the communication be flawless. Communication in Simple Gateways is marred by a flawed system; this brings multiple problems to the company in terms of efficiency, accuracy and time management. Key stakeholders are affected negatively by the current inefficient system. Information is not easily disseminated between departments; this greatly hampers the progress of the company and promotes the redundancy in record keeping. Much improvement needs to be done to salvage the situation. Information should be readily available for all the stakeholders on demand. Whether it is between managers or subordinates, there should be a smooth and steady flow of information. There should be an effective system implemented for further future growth and efficiency. The current system at Simple Gateways is not ideal at all. There are time wastage, record redundancy and no security to its data. The system is not working for the company. An ideal system should cater to every need of the company; security, access and processing of documents should be flawless and efficient.

The best technological solution I propose Gateways RFP to use is to implement a distributed system. A distributed system is an application that has several autonomous components that are connected by a computer network (Coulouris, 2012). Users of a distributed systems share resources and cooperate to perform a single or small set of related tasks. The system is very scalable as it can operate correctly even as some aspect of the system is scaled to a large size. The system is also very secure as it authenticates people who want to access data and services. A distributed system can be extended to accommodate more processing and storage by upgrading or replacing individual components without major disruption.
The proposed distributed system will eliminate multiple versions of documents because it has the capability of mutual exclusion. Since Simple Getaways has multiple processes, the proposed system will be programmed using critical regions (Misra, 2010). A critical region refers to a section that holds a shared resource and this resource can only be accessed by one process at a time. Mutual exclusion (MUTEX) allows only one process at the critical section at a time thus preventing multiple updates of a document by different staffs.
The proposed system will use distributed file system to facilitate information and documents sharing which can either permanently store information or only share information. The distributed file system will provide storage and retrieval, naming, sharing and protection of documents. Offices will share information through remote information sharing that allows a document to be transparently accessed by any office irrespective of the document’s location. The proposed system will also facilitate information sharing by the use of diskless workstations.
The proposed system will digitize and automate the workflow by having an interface to facilitate interaction between the user of the system and the system itself. In case a user make, a request will only results of the request provided and implementation details hidden (Langsford & Moffett, 1993). The system will also have a network that connects different offices thus facilitating information exchange.

References
Coulouris, G. F. (2012). Distributed systems: Concepts and design. Boston: Addison-Wesley.
Langsford, A., & Moffett, J. D. (1993). Distributed systems management. Wokingham, Eng: Addison-Wesley.
Misra, S., Misra, S. C., & Woungang, I. (2010). Selected topics in communication networks and distributed systems. Singapore: World Scientific.
Ordóñez, . P. P., Tennyson, R. D., & Zhao, J. (2012). Global hospitality and tourism management technologies. Hershey, PA: Business Science Reference.