...Abstract The purpose of this paper is to analysis the case study “Dollar General Uses Integrated Software” The paper will seek to understand various issues concerning the implementation of the system as presented in the case study. It shall discuss the various facts concerning the implementation including the reasons for the needing the system,explaining why the old system created problems for Dollar general.The paper shall consider any alternatives to the software in order to reduce costs. It shall also make suggestion on what other software Dollar general my acquire for Lawson Software giving reasons as to why the software acquisition is necessary. Dollar General Uses Integrated Software Introduction Information systems are a must have for any organizations once int has grown past a certain size. This is not to mean that small organizations don’t need information systems.This is systems are often implemented with a promise to garner profits or reduce costs,either why it earns the organization money.Dollar General company which deals with the sale of food, apparel, home-¬ cleaning products, health and beauty aids, and more,competing fiercely with other stores.It is quite a big organization operating more than 8000 stores in 35 states and generated an excess of $9.5b in 2007. The company doubled its size between 1998 and 2000. This rapid expansion caused the store a lot of problems including taxes,increased number of employees,increased number of purchase orders causing...
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...Electronic Design Automation and the Design of Integrated Circuits Abstract A circuit, simply put, is defined as a complete path around which an electric current can flow in order to complete a predesigned task. Circuit design is the intermediate process by which electrical circuits are moved from the specification stage - where the circuit’s purpose is determined - to the production stage, where all of the information necessary to build a working circuit is ready for implementation. In order to keep up with demand for consumer electronics, a fast and efficient way to design and construct the myriad types of circuitry must be in place. This essay will illustrate the basics of circuit design and describe the automated circuit design process. Electronic Design Automation In a large part of the world, electronics are a mainstay of modern society. In the beginning, electronics were much more simple in design, but with the caveat of being much larger today: in the 1980s cellular phones weighed upwards of two pounds and were about three times the size of modern cell phones. Over time, as electronics became smaller and as demand for them increased, a way to design and construct smaller and more efficient circuits became necessary. Enter Electronic Design Automation. An electric circuit is an electrical path that provides a path for an electrical current to flow. While it may seem like a simple matter to design and construct a circuit, the process has become quite intensive...
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...competencies in the design and manufacture of integrated circuits, as well as our financial resources, global presence, and brand recognition. We believe that we have the scale, capacity, and global reach to establish new technologies and respond to customers’ needs quickly. At Intel, we strive for transparency in how we do business and interact with our stakeholders. This section of the website is intended to provide content and links to key corporate information including a corporate profile, strategy, general corporate documents including board committee charters, and links to corporate governance & ethics, corporate responsibility, and executive biographies. We are the world's largest semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue. We develop advanced integrated digital technology, primarily integrated circuits, for industries such as computing and communications. Integrated circuits are semiconductor chips etched with interconnected electronic switches. We also develop computing platforms, which we define as integrated hardware and software computing technologies that are designed to provide an optimized solution. Our goal is to be the preeminent computing solutions company that powers the worldwide digital economy. We are transforming from a company with a primary focus on the design and manufacture of semiconductor chips for PCs and servers to a computing company that delivers complete solutions in the form of hardware and software platforms and supporting services. ...
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...Third electronic generation was between 1964 to 1971. Innovations in this era include the use of integrated circuits, or ICs which were invented by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce . ICs are semiconductor devices with several transistors built into one physical component. Computers were able to run different applications at same time with a program that control the memory. There were invented a lot of techniques to improve proccesing. For example multiprocessing - execution of multiple processes using more than one processor in a system. Also computers were smaller in size, cheaper , faster and more reliable. Some of the most known computers in the third generation are IBM 360, Honeywell-6000 series, CDC 3000, Nokia 4004 and TDC-316. The most known computer from this generation is...
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...every year, with most of the revenues coming from its highly successful System/360 and System/370 mainframe series. These powerful mainframes, which fully automated a company’s manual information processing systems, became the industry standard that competitors tried to match. Apart from this, IBM’s high-priced lease strategy, backed by excellent customer service, also contributed to the rapid rise of the company’s fortunes. This leasing system tied the company to its customers, thus guaranteeing a steady cash flow. Over the years, IBM’s traditional focus on service, combined with a successful sales force, always gave it a competitive advantage. Another of IBM’s strengths is its successful alliances and joint ventures with computer, software, and marketing companies such as Intel and Microsoft. These ventures helped IBM achieve product innovation and differentiation and enter new markets. IBM’s contention system can also be considered as strength. In this system, project teams design competing product prototypes and a series of committees at all managerial levels debate the costs and benefits of each project over a time period. This resulted to the approval of generally successful projects. Furthermore, the product group structure which was implemented during the restructuring of the ‘90s proved to be very successful. In this structure, the divisions were organized around products instead of functions and each group had control over its manufacturing and marketing. Weaknesses ...
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...William Rivas 02-09-2014 MR. Jones NT1110 A History of BIOS and CMOS The relationship between the BIOS and CMOS is important to the proper functionality of any computer. The BIOS is an integrated circuit which tells the CPU or Processor how to act. BIOS is neither hardware or software and is called firmware. Firmware is essentially software on a “chip” or integrated circuit, “chip” being the slang term. The BIOS is the “network administrator of each individual computer”, in other words, it is the reason all the physical parts i.e. motherboard, keyboard , cd drive, monitor, etcetera are able to communicate with each other. The CMOS chip or Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor chip is a different integrated circuit in which the BIOS is dependent upon for storage of computer configuration settings. CMOS memory is attached to the motherboard upon assembly at the factory and uses DC power, from a battery to store BIOS settings. It is not the same as RAM (Random Access Memory) which is used by the Operating System to access instructions from different software added by the end user to perform whatever function desired. This type of memory is lost when power is shut down on the computer. The history of the CMOS appears to begin somewhere around 1963 in a conference paper by C.T. Sah and Frank Wanlass. In 1965 RCA and Somerville Manufacturing pioneered the production of CMOS technology. IN 1968 they created what would prove to be the forerunner of engine control processors...
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...C13121216X 6. ALBERT CHIBAYA C13121048Q 7. MALVIN CHITONGO C13121095J 8. TALENT KAJAWU C13121045W QUESTION: Describe the computer generations based on the following : 1. Hardware 2. Software 3. Computing characteristics 4. Physical appearances 5. applications Answer A computer is an electronic device capable of accepting data, processing it, giving it out and storing it for later use. Computers have evolved over the years from large sized computers to small sized version which we called the generation of computers. The computer generations are as follows: a) First generation b) Second generation c) Third generation d) Fourth generation e) Fifth generation First generation computers The first generation computer was designed and built based on vacuum tube technology. The first generation computers were manufactured from 1940 to 1956.These vacuum tubes were used to perform logic operations and to store data Hardware In this generation of computers there was no best way of storing instructions and data in a computer memory. Punched cards and paper tapes were invented to feed programs and data to get results. The magnetic tape or magnetic drum were used as secondary memory and the output was displayed as printouts. Software The instructions and data were written in machine language. The machine language used O’s and I’s for coding of the instructions. These first generation computers could solve one problem at a time. The computation...
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...Case 1.1 Intel A. The type of business in which Intel operates is world’s largest semiconductor chip maker. They develop advanced technology, primarily integrated circuits, for industries such as computing and communications. Their Integrated circuits are semiconductor chips etched with interconnected electronic switches. They also develop computing platforms, which we define as integrated hardware and software computing technologies that are designed to provide an optimized solution. They do this all based on their revenue. B. From the letters from the chairman and CEO the analyst can learn that Intel reported their best financial results in 2010. The broadband for intel products across all regions continued to grow. Operating income rose to 15.6% billion, which was a net income of 11.5 billion and earning shares rose to $2.01. Their use of recycling of factory reuse drove the cost down. Intel will need to be aggressive with keeping up with the modern technology such as smartphones, tablets etc. to continue to grow. The total dividend payout for 2010 was $3.5 billion. The new intel processor has increased the data center group revenue 35% over 2009. This information can help the analyst to see what type of revenue and how the revenue is coming in to help create a financial projects for next year. C. The audit opinion that Intel recieved was stated to be fairly accurate to Intel financial position for the past 3 years. They stated that the information on...
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...“The Pentium Microprocessor Flaw” Jamaal Bonner April 25, 2014 NT1110/Computer Structure and Logic Professor Marcus Price The Pentium Microprocessor Flaw The Pentium microprocessor is the CPU (central processing unit) developed by Intel. Pentium chips include a floating-point unit (FPU) that has integrated instructions that tell the chip how to compute integer arithmetic, making them much faster [for heavy numerical calculations], more complex, and more expensive. The problem for Intel is that all Pentiums manufactured until sometime in fall of 1994 had errors in the on-chip FPU instructions for division. This caused the Pentium's FPU to incorrectly divide certain floating-point numbers. Many software packages don't actually use a computer's FPU. These packages don't show the error and only certain numbers divide incorrectly. Thomas Nicely, a math professor at Lynchburg College, discovered the flaw in the Pentium’s FPU in summer/fall 1994. He computed the sum of the reciprocals of a large collection of prime numbers on his Pentium-based computer and found the result differed largely from theoretical values. Nicely posted a general notice of the flaw on the Internet and asked others to confirm his findings after receiving no response from Intel, which ultimately led to magazine and television interviews. Intel publicly announced that the subtle error would only occur to an average spreadsheet user once in every 27,000 years of use. Critics noted that the Pentium’s...
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...development of the microprocessor. All digital computers use electronic switches. These switches represent binary digits or bits. The first computers used vacuum tubes as switches to represent on-or-off binary data, but vacuum tubes had many problems. Without the invention of the transistor, microprocessors and the modern computer would not be possible. Bell Laboratory engineers John Bardeen and Walter Brattain invented the transistor in 1947 (transistor). Transistors consumed less power than vacuumed tubes and were microscopic in comparison, this allowed smaller, faster, and more reliable computers to be designed and used. The invention of transistors set the stage for the invention of the integrated circuit and then the microprocessor. The inventor of the first practical integrated circuit in 1959, was Robert Noyce. According to Berlin, “Robert Noyce has...
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...Week 6 Discuss the differences between HIPAA and the Privacy Act of 1974. The Privacy Act protected identifiable medical records by determining the “legal authority for collecting and storing the records, individuals about whom records will be collected, what kinds of information will be collected, and how the records will be used.” It did not apply to or anticipate electronic records, and it only bound federal agencies. HIPAA applied to all electronic records and provided greater specificity regarding data collection and storage. Week 7 Name each of the six components of a computer system and indicate the function of each. Central Processing Unit (CPU)- is where the actual computing takes place which includes three major subcomponents: arithmetic/logic unit (ALU), control unit and registers. The speed and power of the CPU influences the computers capabilities. Primary Storage- is the internal memory where data is stored for access by the CPU Secondary Storage- consists of devices and media designed to maintain small or large quantities of data. Input Devices- is a way of entering data into the computer in different formats; keyboard, scanning and voice input. Users can select the input that meets their organization criteria in order to enter data. Output Devices- data is processed and can be used by the user via printed form, digitally for future processing, audio or spoken form. Outputs of healthcare managers are visual displays, printed documents and audio...
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...silicon have made these developments in microelectronics possible. Silicon based microelectronic devices have revolutionized our world in the past three decades. Integrated circuits, built up from many silicon devices (such as transistors and diodes) on a single chip, control everything from cars to telephones, not to mention the Internet. Silicon technology is still the most reliable and cost-efficient way to fabricate large microelectronic circuits. Semiconductors have played an amazing role and have impacted technology in many ways. Every technology product we use in the modern world is created with silicon and depends on semiconductors. The earliest semiconductor device was a diode which let electricity flow in only one direction. Integrated circuits are called micro chips which are complex circuits that are made of many miniature chips of semiconductor and made of silicon. These chips are packaged in a plastic casing and the fine wires inside the chip link to the pins outside. Microchip is the integration of a whole CPU onto a single chip or on a few chips and greatly reduced the cost of processing power. The integrated circuit processor is produced in large numbers by highly automated processes. A microchip or microprocessor incorporates the functions of a computer's central processing unit (CPU) on a single integrated circuit, or at most a few...
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...silicon have made these developments in microelectronics possible. Silicon based microelectronic devices have revolutionized our world in the past three decades. Integrated circuits, built up from many silicon devices (such as transistors and diodes) on a single chip, control everything from cars to telephones, not to mention the Internet. Silicon technology is still the most reliable and cost-efficient way to fabricate large microelectronic circuits. Semiconductors have played an amazing role and have impacted technology in many ways. Every technology product we use in the modern world is created with silicon and depends on semiconductors. The earliest semiconductor device was a diode which let electricity flow in only one direction. Integrated circuits are called micro chips which are complex circuits that are made of many miniature chips of semiconductor and made of silicon. These chips are packaged in a plastic casing and the fine wires inside the chip link to the pins outside. Microchip is the integration of a whole CPU onto a single chip or on a few chips and greatly reduced the cost of processing power. The integrated circuit processor is produced in large numbers by highly automated processes. A microchip or microprocessor incorporates the functions of a computer's central processing unit (CPU) on a single integrated circuit, or at most a few...
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...1. Explain the difference and the relationship between information technology (IT) and information systems (IS). Information Technology and Information Systems work hand in hand in many business scenarios, although they are not the same. Information Technology (IT) refers to the technological side of an organization, but is not limited to communications. The IT department is the division of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommunications to get, transmit, and store information. The IT department of any given company could handle anything from hardware installation to software deployment. It is the use of networks, computers, software, programming languages, and computer hardware; these are all examples of the scope information technology. Managed Information Systems (MIS) is the practice of how information is delivered, communicated, organized and used in order to achieve any number of goals. The MIS department is a division of the general in-house controls of a business that deals with the use of people, documents and procedures by management. The MIS department uses these controls to solve business problems, report data to management, finance and sales. The MIS department would provide and collect information for research and development to provide a service or a business-wide strategy. The MIS department would essentially be a part of everything from management, finance, sales, research and development to final production. Although most information...
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...Customers as Innovators: A New Way to Create Value by Stefan Thomke and Eric von Hippel Reprint r0204f April 2002 HBR Case Study The Cost Center That Paid Its Way Julia Kirby r0204a First Person If You Want Honesty, Break Some Rules Ginger L. Graham r0204b Big Picture Wealth Happens Mark Buchanan r0204c Maneuver Warfare: Can Modern Military Strategy Lead You to Victory? Eric K. Clemons and Jason A. Santamaria r0204d Executive Women and the Myth of Having It All Sylvia Ann Hewlett r0204e Customers as Innovators: A New Way to Create Value Stefan Thomke and Eric von Hippel r0204f Reawakening Your Passion for Work Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee, and Daniel Goleman r0204g r0204h Best Practice Saving Your Rookie Managers from Themselves Carol A. Walker The Entrepreneur Out of the Blue and into the Black Frank Batten r0204j Innovators A New Way to Create Value R&D has long been a costly and inexact process. Now some companies are trying a radically new approach, giving customers the tools to design and develop their own products. Customers as by Stefan Thomke and Eric von Hippel “L isten carefully to what your customers want and then respond with new products that meet or exceed their needs.” That mantra has dominated many a business, and it has undoubtedly led to great products and has even shaped entire industries. But slavishly obeying that conventional wisdom can also threaten a company’s ability...
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