...from diverse systems, highly manual processes and shortage in skilled resources, slow adoption of business processes automation, and minimal internal analysis due to excessive time needed to produce consolidated reports. Budgeting and distribution of capital is managed centrally. Due to the nature of the shareholders, financial information security is fundamental in any process. Industry Trends 1. Enterprises are widely adopting Enterprise performance management systems with focus on planning, budgeting and forecasting; management reporting; and financial reporting and consolidation. 2. Mobile technology has become pervasive as workers embrace the convenience of anytime, anywhere computing. Strong demand from executives to extend the capabilities of systems to mobile where review and approval of critical processes can be done on the go. 3. Big Data is a new Signal for Finance; with the big data...
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...Visual Information Processing Paper Nancy Mercedes PSY/640 May 23, 2016 Dr. Gaston Weisz Visual Information Processing Paper Our bodies are an amazing machine that interpret the world we live in using different processing systems. The visual information process is a system used to perceive our environment and send this information to our brain, the processing center of the body. One of the most important and often the initial sense used in perceiving our environment is vision. Vision may be the leading prominent sense we use in perception. Visual Information Processing Visual information processing has a big neural investment in the cortical region of the brain. This is an inherited investment, that has evolved to dedicating fifty percent of the brain to visual processing and has increased the ability to recognize what is seen. (Anderson, 2010) Visual information processing gives us the ability to accurately and instantaneously processes what we see interpret it and store it for later recall. (Diamant, 2008) It helps us in surviving and making decisions based on prior experiences. It assists in the interaction with the environment and decision making in situations. The brain processes then and interprets the visual data in the visual cortex; it is the cognitive skill that receives information from our eyes and cooperatively works with the brain to process what we see into something we understand. In early visual information processing “light passes through...
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...Cybercrimes are steady trending and hitting the main stream as an epidemic for conventional criminal offenses. Within cyber crimes deception, embezzlement, blackmail, identity theft, and identity fraud are some well known crimes. According to Controlling cyber-crime and gambling: Problems and paradoxes in the mediation of law and criminal organization: The main elements explaining computer crime and its organization may be found within the illegal activity and the socio-legal problems confronted there. This explanatory approach emphasizes: (a) that at a given stage of technological development, a given illegal act presents certain technical and social problems which must be negotiated for its successful completion; (b) that we can identify the most efficient types of organizations for managing those problems; and (c) that the existence of these kinds of organizations are explained in terms of their technical efficiency in the situations at hand and in their ability to avoid, evade, and neutralize the efforts of law enforcement (McMullan, 2007). There is a lot to say about cybercrimes and the sociology of but, this paper will cover what is trending in cyber crimes. Some trends are organized criminal activity and others are individualized. Organized cybercrimes Organized criminal groups have adopted the trend of technology within their criminal activity. They have placed a value on information and communication technologyThey a have used the technology to “facilitate their...
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...Exposition: Good afternoon everyone. My name is Bonnie Beckford and I’m a CIS major. Quick question. How many of you watch the news or buy a newspaper daily? How many of you have some form of social media account? Whether it be Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, or even a Linkedin account, I’m sure you’ve seen news coverage of some sort. As social media use continues to grow, news becomes more easily accessible allowing instant news coverage making social media a prominent source for retrieving news. Problem: From just 2003 to 2014 digital news revenue has increased where print newspaper revenue has dropped tremendously * The annual revenue for print newspaper ads had dropped from roughly $45 billion to $16 billion, which is about 1/3 of the revenue it had nearly ten years previous. * The annual revenue for digital news ads has nearly tripled from $1.2 billion to $3.5 billion. As newspaper ad sales continue to drop drastically, digital news ads continue to grow. Solution: By having a social media account it exposes you to news almost instantly giving you access to things globally often right after they happen. You will most likely know about a current event on a social media site before major networks pick up the story, although a lot of news sources are using social media to get and report news. Twitter * Twitter recently unveiled its new feature called “Moments,” which does the following: * Feature allows anyone, whether they are a Twitter user or not...
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...Social Media Media gives people the opportunity to connect with other people around the world, do research, see what’s trending, and advertisement. Media changes our ways of how we see products, trends, and people and they can make us change our minds about how we think about these things. Also, depending on what you see people post on the media can change the way you see them or change your attitude towards that certain person. The media will always try sending us messages about things that might catch our attention and how we should see things. They seem to know what stuff we’re watching most of the time on the media. Companies will sends us advertisements on products we might like so we can buy them. We have a large world of networks like Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat. That is only a few there are way more out there. In the article “Implications of User Choice: Myspace or Facebook?” by Danah Boyd she states that “As we become more enveloped in and by technology, it’s easy to feel excited about what’s going on. Yet we must also be cautious.” Which is true because as we become more hooked on technology. For example, when using networks we just want to be online to see what’s going on and don’t want to miss anything but we must be cautious at a point. Many people seemed to be on Myspace before knowing about Facebook. Everyone was on Myspace and Facebook was for networking adults and a few Ivy League college students. Then suddenly everyone almost everyone...
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...Market Research Report, Apple INC. The target market for our products from Apple will be to expand our product lines into all sectors of electronics available to a wide target of consumers. The compatibility of our platform to be used between computer and handheld devices that can be synced to home electronics make the ability for constant connection via the World Wide Web. Using available technology such as Bluetooth or wireless services in order for information to be transferred between devices from desktop computers that are used at home, to any mobile device. Using available applications will expand the age demographics of our customers, from the millennials using more social media platforms to the older career professional using job resource such as LinkedIn. Applications have become the most popular way to customize device to tailor it to each different consumer. For the end of the quarter of 2016, Apple INC. will be targeting the market to continue expanding on traveling applications. By using the latest survey equipment, we can insure our maps stay updated to keep accuracy demands to our consumer. The amount of construction & constantly evolving cities throughout the United States make traveling difficult due to the number of detours and closed roadways. The appeal of this application to the career professional would enable anyone on the roadway to help share information about road conditions, traffic, and remain connected to share average road times per their...
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...Performance Reviews via Social Networks LaTavia Willis Dr. Sherbert HRM 500 May 15, 2012 Abstract In this assignment I will be expressing my views on the reference of social networking and how it applies to the daily supplement of assessing performance and the development of employees. This assignment will describe my response in regards to “If you have regular conversations with people, and they know where they stand, then the performance evaluation is maybe unnecessary.” My views whether I agree or disagree with what the statement presents. I will also be comparing and contrasting the effectiveness of the social network performance review to the following age groups: veterans, baby boomers, generation X and Y. “The biggest payoff of these social network style tools may prove to be better performance by the boss.” To state whether or not this statement justifies the time and cost of implementing these systems and provide a rationale. Finally the discussion in this assignment consist of O’Toole statement: “It has been said that Americans are increasingly overworked.” Whether social network type evaluations aid or hinder the overworked American. This assignment will fully explain all views that need to be answered. Introduction: I agree with the statement, “If you have regular conversations with people, and they know where they stand, then the performance evaluation is maybe unnecessary.” In this assignment my views will be proven. I will also be comparing and...
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...Marketing Female African Attire By: Munah Mombo Over the past few years, female African Attire has taken on a new trending look sparking new interest in the market. From casual wear to formal attire, most of the clothing-lines now span across cultures. The style of the clothes varies from cultures of the African continent. However, the colors and style feature the more elaborate West African taste. What is important about this trend is how comfortable it feels than how comfortable it looks. The way is looks captures the essence of beauty that is irrefutable to the person therefore, it is always a great buy. Authentic African materials are weaved to bring out the specific texture and style of the clothes but it takes considerable time. African materials also consist of tie and dye. According to Tekaye designs (2014), designs are either tied or stitched into the cloth using cotton threads, or draw on cloth using impermeable substance. Over the past decades, new technology has reduced the production period and allowed the market to become more accessible to businesses. The project is intended to stimulate the U.S. market that has seen an increase in African immigrants in the past years. This increase has helped to make the product very attractive particularly to other cultures to explore the original materials of African in its historical context. Investing in the female African attire business entails knowing different cultures to satisfy and meet the needs of prospective...
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...Yusong Zhu 2725450 Research Paper Memo 03/01/2015 My final research paper will be focusing on the impact of new technology on real estate. Technology has been a trending topic in all fields for decades, and I believe it also has a great influence on the real estate. * There is a battle raging in this information age: A standoff between professionals and their potential clients: Attorneys, doctors and realtors are fighting a new wave of information dissemination and peer-to-peer advice. * Tech is always sites as a bright spot in the United States economy: Hardware, software, mobile technologies, and social media, bio-tech, and e-commerce are all key new technologies booming indicators. Six of the top ten metros in the top office demand markets since 2010 are certainly quality as markets that have a strong tech component driving much of the growth. * Analyzing the relationship between some new technologies and real estate： Many may not believe there’s tight connection, the real estate industry is actually one of the most tech savvy industries around today. * Examples: The real estate profession is undergoing similar growing pains, a process in which consumers are redefining what they want and need out of an agent. Driverless cars: implications for the economy and the commercial real estate in the future 1. Market ready overview 2. Parking paradigm shift 3. Population shift * Overall: there is still a tremendous upside in the tech...
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...Insight and analysis for IT leaders RSS linkedin facebook twitter Google Plus Home IT management Technology Industry Events Search Information management Local governance Getting citizen data under control is helping the London Borough of Brent provide more intelligent public services Posted by Hal Hodson on 3 November 2011 Share article 137 11 0 3 googleplus8 Short of time? Print this pageEmail article Local governance Having inconsistent and duplicate customer data is damaging enough in business, but in local government it can have a serious impact on citizens’ lives. Until five years ago, citizen records at the London Borough of Brent were siloed across 12 different databases, one for each of the council’s functional divisions. Every division had its own separate copy of resident data, and each one was incomplete or incorrect in some way. The council’s two separate customer relationship management systems also had different resident data sets, each with its own particular faults and omissions. This situation meant that while one department might know that a resident was blind, and therefore required special services, the others might still treat them like any other. It also made the council’s clerical processes inefficient, as employees would spend much of their time calling other departments to find out supplementary information. The council’s solution was to build the Brent Client Index, a system that aggregates...
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...Trolling through Twitter hashtags Andrei Coste Context Internet Trolling has been around ever since there were means that users could communicate with each other over web protocols. It’s deeply rooted in the internet culture and is often considered to be a form of bullying (cyberbullying). The website Know Your Meme says that “the contemporary use of the term is alleged to have appeared on the Internet in the late 1980s, but the earliest known mention of the word “troll” on record can be found in a post on the Usenet newsgroup alt.folklore.urban from December 14th, 1992. The term continued to grow popular in the early 1990s through its usage in the Usenet group alt.folklore.urban and by the late 1990s, the alt.folklore.urban newsgroup had such heavy traffic and participation that acts of trolling became frowned upon. Prior to the widespread use of the term “trolling,” similar behaviors have been observed through “griefing,” the act of intentionally causing distress to other players in an online game, since the days of Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs) in the late 1980s and “flaming,” the act of instigating hostility or unpleasant exchanges in online forums, which also emerged through Usenet newsgroup discussions”. They also state that In the late 1980s, Internet users adopted the word “troll” to denote someone who intentionally disrupts online communities. Early trolling was relatively innocuous, taking place inside of small, single-topic Usenet groups. The trolls employed what...
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...wearing a Fitbit? If so, you are helping the trend thrive even more than what it already has. At this point in the diffusion of innovation chart the Fitbit is starting to reach the end of early majority and the beginning of late majority. Not sure what a Fitbit is, well it is a watch/fitness tracker. It counts your steps, tracks your heart rate, miles you have walked, calories burned, and many more features. At the end of each day you sync all of the data onto the app or computer.This allows you to see and reflect off the data that has been made based on your everyday lifestyle. The Fitbit has been a trending product since January of 2012(google trends). Within that time period it has times where the trend increases and times where...
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...Training Manual Antonio D. Cardenas HCS/224 Health Care Office Management Monday, September 7, 2015 Sylvia Jones Training Manual Health Care is one of the most important service business in the world. We meet people when they are on their worst and it is our job to help them in their road to been healthy. As a healthcare professional we not only get to help those in need but we promote smiles. There is nothing more satisfying than nursing a person back to health and we see it every day. Although there will be moments of tension were our patience will be tested we need to understand, and be professional at all times. Providing great care is easy to achieve following simple protocols of care, and putting in effect everything we have learned both in school and in practice. This manual is mean to help with informing you about those protocols. Providing that excellent level of care will promote our reputation as a Center of Excellence in our community. We need to remember that customer service is a big part of caring for someone, we must provide excellent Customer Service to everyone in our Center. From the moment a patient enters our center every individual part forms part of a big Idea that they will take with them. From the warm smile of the Front Desk Staff to the cleanness of the Center all is been judge. Lets all work as a team to find that balance of providing great care while exciding all patient’s expectation. Healthcare offices are all different, it depends...
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...company's projected future growth rate of earnings 5. Analysis of its required rate of return using the CAPM measurement 6. The company’s intrinsic value using the discount valuation techniques 7. Conclusions 8. References 1. AT&T Background AT&T Inc. is an American multinational corporation that provides telecommunications services to consumers, businesses, and other providers worldwide. Founded in 1983 as SBC Communications Inc. and changed its name to AT&T Inc. in November 2005, is considered the leading company in the telecommunication industry by Fortune 500 ranked as the number 11th; Headquartered in Dallas, Texas AT&T Inc. has 256,420 employees. AT&T Inc. common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol of “T” (NYSE: T) making the company one of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It is also a Fortune 500 company ranked the largest communications holding company in the world by revenue of $126,723 millions and by profits $3,944 according to the latest results in 2012. Its direct competitor is Verizon Communications with $110,875 millions in revenue and $2,404 millions in profits, 20% bellow of AT&T. According to its 2011 Annual Report, the company has invested $20.3 billions in project for wireless and mobile capabilities, this is represented by 76% of the 2011 revenue with a 7.5% growth year over year; also $10.2 billions paid to stockholders and $34.6 billions cash...
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