...mobile transaction processing systems. Management information systems (MIS) serve middle managers’ interests by providing current and historical performance information to aid in planning, controlling, and decision making at the management level. Apple Incorporated uses their warranty records and performance/sales records to aid in the management information systems. Decision-support systems (DSS) also known as business intelligence systems, help managers with non- routine decisions that are unique, rapidly changing, and not easily specified in advance. The five types of decision support systems are document driven, knowledge driven, model driven, data driven, and communication driven. The executive support systems (ESS) provide a generalized computing and communications environment that help senior managers address strategic issues and identify long-term trends in the firm and its environment. Apple Incorporated uses non-routine decisions, data from internal and external sources, and long-term trends to help aid in executive support systems. Long-term trends Long-term trends Data from internal and external sources Data from internal and external sources Non-routine decisions Non-routine decisions Document driven Document driven Knowledge driven Knowledge driven Warranty records Warranty records Executive Support System Executive Support System Model driven Model driven Management Information Systems Management Information Systems Decision-Support...
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...PROPOSAL FOR ABC NETWORKING AND CYBER-PHYSICAL SYTEMS SAFETY Name: Institutional Affiliation: Course: Date: Table of Contents SECTION I: CONSULTANT …………………………..............................................2-5 SECTION II: OUR UNDERSTANDING OF ABC REQUIREMENTS…………….5 SECTION III: OUR PROPOSAL……………………………………………………..6-16 SECTION IV: PROJECT RESOURCE……………………………………………..….17-18 Reference………………………………………………………………………………… I.0. Introduction BLM COMMUNICATIONS Your Ref… Our Ref: ABC/14/9 26 September 2014 Information Technology/ Systems Engineer ABC, Department of ICT Address: Dear Sir/Madam, RE: PROPOSAL FOR NETWORKING AND CYBER-PHYSICAL SYTEMS SAFETY Proposal on enterprise-wide solution for networking topology, network devices, IP infrastructure, and network security innovative safety procedures and measures for implementation to provide safer environments for networking and electronic document management software. We look forward for your favorable consideration. Sincerely, Name, LEAD CONSULTANT 1. Business Questionnaire |Company Registration No. 490998 | |PIN Number P051564540Q ...
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...packages * Evaluating the cost of shipping * Sorting the packages in terms of destinations * Controlling the flights * Sorting the packages * Delivering the package to the person himself * Making FedEx aware of the end of the operation 2. List the types of information systems shown in the video. Can you describe how systems that were not shown might be used at FedEx? There are several types of information systems: * Management Information Systems: provide information which is needed to manage organizations the best way possible * Decision Support Systems: support business or organizational decision-making activities, serve the management, operations, and planning levels of an organization and help to make decisions.1 * Executive Information Systems: facilitate and support the information and decision-making needs of senior executives by providing easy access to both internal and external information relevant to meeting the strategic goals of the organization.1 * Knowledge Management Systems: manage knowledge in organizations for supporting creation, capture, storage and...
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...LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA LIBS 816 ASSIGNMENT ROLE OF MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM IN HUMAN RESOURCE BY LAWAL FARIDA USMAN Msc/EDUC/07014/2010-2011 COURSE TITLE: MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYTEM COURSE LECTURER: DR. EZERA GBAJE MAY, 2012 INTRODUCTION Management is like investment; its goals to get most out of resources add the most value or get the best return. Management can be defined as achieving goals in a way that makes the best use of all resources. It is also the process of getting activities completed efficiently and effectively with and through other people. Information is any kind of event that streets the state of dynamic system. It can also be regarded as any knowledge acquired through study, experience or instruction. A System is a group of elements that are integrated with the common purpose of achieving an objective. Information Systems (IS) have been deployed by organizations for achieving efficiency, effectiveness, enhancing quality and gaining competitive advantage According to Lordon K. L. Management Information System (MIS) is a system to support the decision making function in the organization. It is also an integrated system of man and machine for providing the information to support the operations, the management and the decision making function in the organization. MIS is basically concerned with processing data into information...
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...Project: Project Part 1: Executive Summary First World Savings and Loan is a financial institution that processes credit card transactions and loan applications online. We are currently considering implementing an open source infrastructure. This could potentially save us over $4,000,000 per year in licensing fees for the software we are currently using. However, due to our business needs; we must still comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Payment Card Industry - Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA). We must comply with SOX, because we are a publicly-traded financial institution; PCI-DSS, because we process online credit card transactions; and GLBA, because we are a financial institution. All of the regulations of these three compliancy laws must be met, while still maintaining the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) triad. All security requirements for SOX, PCI-DSS, and GLBA can be achieved using Linux and open source infrastructure. Some examples of open source software that we might use are: Web Server - Apache Web Filtering - DansGuardian Network Firewall - Turtle Firewall VPN - Endian Firewall Community IDS/IPS - Suricata Database - MySQL File Server - Samba SMTP Server - hMailServer I would recommend that we use a "Defense in Depth" strategy, having multiple layers of access protection. We need to have an IDS/IPS on both sides of our edge firewall. The inside IDS/IPS will be used as additional protection for...
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...Introduction According to Chand (2015), costing techniques are used by management for controlling cost and making managerial decisions. It systematically records expenses and analyses the cost of each product manufactured or service rendered by an organisation (Hariharan, n.d.). Firms choose to adapt to a specific costing theory that caters accordingly to their needs and objectives. Part 1: Evaluation of Costing Theories Costing theories are very important in business decision making. According to Hariharan (n.d.), they serve managers as a guide to make correct decisions such as what price to quote, whether to place order for inputs or whether to abandon or add a product to the production line. Costing theories also determines the price of the best alternative use of a factor of production and results in an efficient allocation of resources (Chand, 2015). The business will adopt the most profitable production inputs by identifying unprofitable activities, losses and inefficiencies (Chand, 2015) Costing theories also helps the decisions regarding the capital expenditure through the estimation of long-run function (Chand, 2015). This function will be useful to managers when deciding on the expansion or contraction of plant size in the firm and confirming that the present plant size is just nice for the output level that is being produced (Chand, 2015). It improves the overall productivity of an organisation and acts as an important guide in bringing prosperity to the firm (Vitez...
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...ASSIGNMENT 1 BEST OF BREED versus ERP SYSTEMS (BCO6603) PRESENTED BY YOUSUFATA Student ID: 4438319 Victoria University Introduction If the organization software world (logistics , manufacturing , HR , Finance ) Held any competition for the premium software solution , it would make up a list such as SAP , Oracle and Infor as ERP System versus Best –of-breed vendor Manhattan Associates ,i2 and High ,Jump.(Patridge,2007) ERP maybe the best available but Best-of-Breed system is minimizing the Gap lately and the selection process for consumers become more hard as what system to choose. (Amy Patridge, 2007 ) Best Of Breed System Best of breed systems are customized system or applications which are designed for the individual department of the organization (e.g , Pharmacy Information system , ware house distribution , laboratory system , radiology system). Each system built on the particular department data of the company or firm which is customized to meet the needs of external and internal users for more efficient out come(Stacey,2010). Best of Breed system provide expert solution for specific issues in individual organization business modules, for example a general practitioner or a specialist for your medical problem ,Best of breed work as specialist for specific business module(Moffit,1998). Advantages of Best Of Breed System According to (Stacy,2010) , the benefits of Best of Breed system are , * Once the system implemented, it take...
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...Platform Summary VMware was founded in early 1998 with the plan to bring a modernized version of virtualization to industry standard compute systems. The vision was that this would greatly improve people’s ability to fully utilize, secure, and flexibly manage their compute infrastructure. This vision has resulted in the emergence of a significant industry and also great benefits for VMware’s customers. a sampling of those that have standardized on VMware Virtual Infrastructure shows estimated average savings of ~$1M in hardware, ~$200K in power, and ~222 hours/month in labor. The customers are seeing a return on investment in anywhere from days to at most 9 months. VMware started the x86 virtualization market and today has over 20,000 enterprise customers, over four million users, and is partnered with every major industry player in the x86 space. VMware has received over 65 awards for product innovation and excellence and is consistently recognized as the industry leader in virtualization. Network World wrote in december 2005: “while many companies are having a transformative effect on the computer market, one vendor is at the very forefront of acquiring power: VMware. VMware’s virtual machine products are some of the best in the market and its financial performance has been stunning.” From cNet on March 31, 2006: “it’s VMware, which leads the virtualization market.” The market-research company Idc estimates that spending around server virtualization will increase to nearly $15...
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...Enterprise Resource Planning and Systems Integration Cesar Campana, MMIS0627 Graduate Student, Nova Southeastern University School of Computer and Information Sciences September, 2011 Author Note Cesar Campana, Graduate Student, School of Computer and Information Sciences, Nova Southeastern University. Correspondence concerning this paper should be addressed to Cesar Campana, 2240 SW 50 Av, Fort Lauderdale Fl 33317. E-mail: cc1604@nova.edu Background Enterprise Resource Planning integrates internal and external management information across an entire organization, embracing finance/accounting, manufacturing, sales and service, customer relationship management, etc. ERP systems automate this activity with an integrated software application (Hossein, 2004). The ERP is “Web enabled”, meaning that they work using Web clients, making them accessible to all of the organization’s employees, clients, partners, and vendors from anytime and anyplace, thereby promoting the BU’s effectiveness (Motiwalla & Thompson, 2012). The fundamental advantage of ERP is that integrating the myriad processes by which businesses operate saves time and expense. Decisions can be made more quickly and with fewer errors. Data becomes visible across the organization (Vikki, 2010). The disadvantages comes from the tight budget organizations allocate to personnel training thus resulting inadequate use of ERP systems and poor testing and implementing of changes. The experience and skill of the...
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... Tutor: Date: BUSINESS ETHICS AND DEONTOLOGY Nowadays the issue of business ethics is very important point in the discourse of business development. According to the latest statistics, the most part of the modern business enterprises are engaged in the sphere of services. Due to the importance of business ethics, especially in the sphere of services,cases concerning about the companies that did not follow the ethical principles are especially discussed by public. It is suggested by the specialist and observers of the market that the company, which once had problems because of ethical issues can not come back on the previous level of success.The level of sales of such problematic company, as a rule, noticeably falls. The twenty-first century is the age of consumerism society. Still the most of population of well-developed countries are individualist who protect their rights to be personalities, not just the wallets for the great companies. If the company do not show the necessary respect to the clients and perfect services, the enterprise can easily loose the great number of customers. Once the trust is lost, it is hard for the company to bring it back and to return on the previous level of selling rates. The example of such a company is Nestle. The violation of ethics by Nestle caused protests against the company all around the world. It was discovered that the advertisement...
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...Introduction Expo Freight LTD (EFL) was founded in 1982 and has emerged as Sri Lanka's leading provider of freight forwarding solutions and supply chain management solutions. Their outstanding success and wide customer acceptance as a reliable provider of world class logistics support has enabled the EXPO GROUP to venture into overseas markets with a strong focus on the Indian Sub-Continent and the Sub Saharan regions where its expertise and experience are widely recognized. Expo Group is already strongly positioned in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Mauritius and Madagascar, whilst it's more recent ventures in the U.A.E, South Africa, Kenya, Nepal, Vietnam and Tanzania are well on their way to become part of its success story. Expo Group has ventured into diverse fields of export and import operations, freight forwarding & logistics, airlines GSAs, flight Operations, travelling and etc. The Group draws its strength from a remarkable combination of factors consisting of high customer service standards, business ethics and a committed workforce - all of which contribute to the continued development and growth of the business. As the first overseas office of Expo Group, Expo Group Bangladesh Ltd started its operations in 1992 and has been providing logistics and freight management solutions for importers and exporters worldwide since then. Expo Group belongs to an active group of companies, involved in a wide range of business which includes exports, imports, travel agency,...
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...Project: Project Part 1: Executive Summary First World Savings and Loan is a financial institution that processes credit card transactions and loan applications online. We are currently considering implementing an open source infrastructure. This could potentially save us over $4,000,000 per year in licensing fees for the software we are currently using. However, due to our business needs; we must still comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Payment Card Industry - Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA). We must comply with SOX, because we are a publicly-traded financial institution; PCI-DSS, because we process online credit card transactions; and GLBA, because we are a financial institution. All of the regulations of these three compliancy laws must be met, while still maintaining the Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) triad. All security requirements for SOX, PCI-DSS, and GLBA can be achieved using Linux and open source infrastructure. Some examples of open source software that we might use are: Web Server - Apache Web Filtering - DansGuardian Network Firewall - Turtle Firewall VPN - Endian Firewall Community IDS/IPS - Suricata Database - MySQL File Server - Samba SMTP Server - hMailServer I would recommend that we use a "Defense in Depth" strategy, having multiple layers of access protection. We need to have an IDS/IPS on...
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... (A Case Study of Oceanic Bank Int’l Plc., Nigeria) Term paper Fall 2014 Business School, Seinäjoki Masters of Business Administration Advanced Marketing Management SEINÄJOKI UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES * Term Paper abstract Faculty: Seinäjoki Business School Degree programme: Master of Business Administration Specialisation: Advanced Marketing Management Author: Ademola Olutosin Onashile Title of Thesis: Innovation of Employee’s Leave Process Using the SAP System Supervisor: Mäkeläinen, Ville-Pekka Year: 2014 Number of pages: 25 Number of appendices: 0 _________________________________________________________________ This paper is written furtherance to series of class and group works done under the course: Advanced Marketing Management which is an MBA course and the view point is innovation of a certain process or service or product of an organization and show casing its marketing management perspective. Therefore, the author is dwelling on the innovation of the leave process of a particular Nigerian bank namely Oceanic Bank Int’l plc. Hence, the paper tends to sequentially take the case from introduction, focusing on the Everett M.Rogers’ diffusion of innovation as its theoretical framework. It gives numerous definitions of Human Resource Management (HRM) and the needs for HR in organzations. It also explains in a nutshell the SAP technology and its benefits. Lastly, the paper shows the category of adopters in the...
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...Riordan Manufacturing, Inc. SR-rm-220 Michael S Black BSA 375 August 6, 2012 John Dunn Riordan Manufacturing, Inc. SR-rm-220 Introduction and Brief History “Riordan Manufacturing is a global plastics manufacturer employing 550 people with projected annual earnings of $46 million. The company is wholly owned by Riordan Industries, a Fortune 1000 enterprise with revenues in excess of $1 billion. Its products include plastic beverage containers produced at its plant in Albany, Georgia, custom plastic parts produced at its plant in Pontiac, Michigan, and plastic fan parts produced at its facilities in Hangzhou, China. The company's research and development is done at the corporate headquarters in San Jose. Riordan's major customers are automotive parts manufacturers, aircraft manufacturers, the Department of Defense, beverage makers and bottlers, and appliance manufacturers. The company was founded by Dr. Riordan, a professor of chemistry, who had obtained several patents relative to processing polymers into high tensile strength plastic substrates. Sensing the commercial applications for his patents, Dr. Riordan started Riordan Plastics, Inc. in 1991. Initially, the company's focus was on research and development and the licensing of its existing patents, but in 1992 Dr. Riordan obtained venture capital which he used to purchase a fan manufacturing plant in Pontiac, MI. At that time, the company's name was changed to "Riordan Manufacturing, Inc." In 1993, the company...
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...1.1 INTRODUCTION Inventory Management An Inventory is a Stock or Store of goods kept to meet customers expected demand. Inventory can also be defined as the stored accumulation of transformed resources in a process, and it usually applies to material resources but may also be used for inventories of information. Almost all operations keep some kind of inventory, most usually of materials but also of information and customers (Customers inventories are normally called Queues). These inventories can take various forms, which includes raw materials purchased but not processed, work- in- process (WIP) incomplete products or components nor longer considered raw materials., maintenance, repair and operating materials which are supplies necessary to keep machines running and finished goods inventory which are ready to be sold.(Anonymous, 2007) Inventories are costly, as they sometimes tie up working capital. They are also risky because items held in stock may deteriorate, become obsolete, or indeed get lost. Stocks also take up valuable space. On the other hand they provide security in uncertain environments because the operation can deliver stocks should customers demand them. Inventory management in some operations is more than just a part of their responsibility; it is the very reason for being in business (Slack et al 2007). 1.1.2 DISCUSSION The five performance objectives are Quality, Speed, Dependability, Flexibility, and Cost. Quality Many...
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