...Party Plates is growing every day. We have increased our sales with the implementation of our new collaboration software and we want to take another step, by introducing wireless technology to the business. Wireless technology is impacting the way in which business operates and provides us with excellent opportunities to exponentially grow our business. By introducing two new wireless technologies into our business that benefits all of our departments we can further streamline our systems and potentially increase sales. The introduction of iPhones to the business will allow all of our employee’s access to our database, contact lists and everything they need to get their job done in an efficient and productive manner, wherever they may be. As you know many of our sales reps travel frequently and having an iPhone will enable them to virtually work anywhere and stay in contact with head office on a regular basis. The other wireless technology that we’d like to implement is the use of a GPS system. This will enable all of our delivery drivers to find our customers easily when they are out on the road. By purchasing a GPS tracking system that monitors our company vehicles we can monitor each driver and provide our customers with up-to-date information on their delivery times and location. Also with the implementation of both of these technologies, the sales department would be able to respond to customer’s issues, create solutions outside the work environment, respond to email and...
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...Wireless Technologies Proposal BIS/220 Ivon Young Wireless Technologies Proposal Mrs. Smith, the President of Party Plates likes to know about wireless technologies available for her business to use. Currently, her company doesn’t use any wireless technologies. She has asked team D to recommend at least two wireless technologies that would be beneficial to implement her organization. Proposal There are many different options out there that could work to assist in the daily operational activities; two of these technologies that would be most beneficial are handheld terminals and a company e-mail system. When a customer is looking for a product that cannot be found on the shelf in the store, an employee can use the handheld terminal to scan the label on the shelf to see if there is any in stock. If so, they will be able to see where the product is located and quickly locate. Another situation where the handheld terminal is useful is inventory. A Party Plates employee can quickly identify products that are low in stock. Because there are so many functions on the handheld terminals, managers can give the employees codes with passwords to monitor the work that each employee is or is not doing. Another technology that would be very useful to Party Plates is a company e-mail system. A manager may need to get a communication to all employees at one time. With a company e-mail system, doing so would be very easy. Communication could involve hot sales...
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...Wireless Technologies Proposal Team D BIS/220 July 30, 2012 Heather Shankwiler Wireless Technologies Proposal Party Plates Company has established the need for a new proposal with wireless technology. Team D will research some marketing tools that will assist Party Plates in meeting their goals of advancement in sales and certain goals. This proposal will focus on wireless technology that will be beneficial to the party plate business. Team D will also provide the pros and cons to these wireless technologies and justification of the choice to incorporate them into Party Plates Company. In the proposal, Team D will also include a spreadsheet presenting the equipment needed for using the technologies and the costs associated with each. The wireless technologies that Team D recommends for Party Plates Company are WIFI and Radio Frequency Identification, also known as RFID. WIFI is a medium-range wireless technology that allows electronic devices to exchange data using radio waves over a computer network. These radio waves are transmitted using an antenna called a wireless access point. (Rainer Jr & Cegieiski, 2011) WIFI will save Party Plates Company the expense paid on having wires installed throughout the company. RFID technology consists of a small chip that is attached to inventory items. These chips include a unique identifier that acts as a barcode or magnetic strip would. RFID technology will allow Party Plates Company to keep up with their...
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...Learning Team Wireless Proposal BIS/220 October 21, 2013 Wireless Technology Proposal The following proposal is for Party Plate’s possible introduction of wireless technologies into the work environment. We have identified two wireless technologies that would be beneficial for implementation into the organization. The goal would be for these wireless technologies to help streamline our data management and increase our productivity. Within this proposal we will identify the benefits and the risks of implementing these technologies. In order to succeed and grow in today’s ever-changing business environment it is critical to keep up with changes in new technologies. To be competitive and continue advancing in marketing we must ensure that our staff has the competitive advantage by being able to utilize the latest technologies and data management tools that are available. Our goal as a company is to be able to meet the ever-changing demands of the customer by equipping our staff with the latest marketing data, communication data, and reporting data. Having these abilities would allow for us to research any topic effectively and efficiently. We must also have a platform that allows our internal staff to share sales and marketing information across all of the departments, both in office and out in the field. Customer interaction must be optimized through emails, video conferencing and phone calls. In order to accomplish our goals here at Party Plates we have put together the...
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...12 Wireless Technologies Proposal Learning Team B Jessica L Jones, Christina Valdez, Kathy Moles, & Steven Goodwin Table of Contents * Page 2 * Table of Contents * Page 3 * The problem * The proposed changes * The pros and cons of proposed changes * Page 4 * Justification of decision * Page 5 * The risks involved * The costs * Conclusion * Page 6 * References Wireless Technologies Proposal To: President of Party Plates From: Sales Department of Party Plates Date: February 6, 2012 Subject: Wireless Technologies Proposal The problem: Party Plates currently uses a wired local area network to access the Internet. This requires each desktop and laptop computers be connected to the network via Ethernet cables. Party Plates supplies certain employees with company financed mobile phones. However, the current phones have minimal functions. The proposed changes: An upgrade to a wireless local area network (WLAN) would offer Party Plates several benefits. Providing smart phones instead of current phones to the employees would also be valuable. With smart phones the employees would have several functions at their disposal that would make them more efficient. The pros and cons of proposed changes: Incorporating wireless technologies into any business has advantages and disadvantages. For Party Plates, the wireless technologies that the sales department would like to incorporate are mobile...
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...Wireless Technologies Proposal Keshia Smith, Joshua Crouch, Amber Kelly, JaLynn Coombs BIS 220 January 16, 2012 Michael Chu Wireless Technologies Proposal Mobile computing and mobile commerce in addition to a traditional computer system is what Party Plates will use to house information for the company at one location that could be accessible by a wireless device as well. If Party Plates want their services readily available, convenient to their customers, and to remain productive; then they may consider the use of wireless devices to compete with other businesses that supply the same services. Mobile services allow Party Plates as well as their customers to access information real-time while connecting from mobile devices and other computing environments. Whether Party Plates use mobile devices or remain in its current position, we are recommending mobile computing and mobile commerce as wireless services to move Party Plates into the future. The pros and cons of each service are listed within this proposal. Mobile computing refers to real-time wireless connection between a mobile device and other computing environments, such as the Internet. These days it is spreading everywhere, at work, at home, in education, health care, entertainment, and in so many other areas. The pros of mobile computing is its mobility to take a small hand held device and go anywhere and its broad reach to just about anywhere instantly [ (Rainer & Cegielski, 2011) ]. Mobile commerce...
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...Party Plates Proposal on Wireless Technologies BIS 220 Party Plates Proposal on Wireless Technologies Wireless technologies are a great way to implement growth and organization for Party Plates. Two recommended wireless technologies are cell phones and laptops. In this day in age, cell phones have remarkable functions and capabilities and have the ability to hold as much storage as a PC. Furthermore, cell phones will allow our employees to stay connected, have access to email, customer information, and orders while out in the field. On the other hand, with the use of wireless laptops, Party Plates can work anywhere when a cell phone does not have any service. With the use of a laptop, information can be easily stored and displayed to the corporation’s employees in order to add and make changes. This allows Party Plates employees to organize and manage files without having to waste time in sorting through files that are stored in cabinets. One phone in particular that is great for business is the iPhone 5. While this phone is one of the most expensive on the market, it will be well worth it. The iPhone 5 serves as a phone, camera, video camera, GPS, iPod, and web browser. In addition, the number of applications that can be downloaded on this device is limitless. The iPhone 5 has presentation and spreadsheet capabilities. Letters, flyers, and cards can also be created on the iPhone 5. Ultrabook is a type of laptop that is the latest in technology and great for business...
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...BIS 220 Entire Course FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bis220helps.com BIS 220 Week 1 Individual Assignment Information Technology Acts Paper BIS 220 Week 1 DQ 1 BIS 220 Week 1 DQ 2 BIS 220 Week 2 LT Reflection Summary BIS 220 Week 2 Individual Assignment Information Systems Proposal BIS 220 Week 2 DQ 1 BIS 220 Week 2 DQ 2 BIS 220 Week 3 Individual Assignment Types of Electronic Commerce Activity BIS 220 Week 3 LT Reflection Summary BIS 220 Week 3 Team Assignment Efficiency and Collaboration Proposal BIS 220 Week 3 DQ 1 BIS 220 Week 3 DQ 2 BIS 220 Week 4 Team Assignment Wireless Technologies Proposal BIS 220 Week 4 DQ 1 BIS 220 Week 4 DQ 2 BIS 220 Week 5 LT Reflection Summary BIS 220 Week 5 Individual Assignment Social Media and Networking Presentation ********************************************************** BIS 220 Final Exam Guide FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bis220helps.com 1) Two information systems that support the entire organization are 2) _______ is the direct use of information systems by employees in their work 3) ______ attempt to duplicate the work of human experts by applying reasoning capabilities 4) ______ issues involve who may obtain information and how much they should pay for this information 5) _____ issues involve collecting, storing, and disseminating information about individuals. 6) Your company’s computers have been taken over by an attacker and used to attack another organization’s information systems. Your...
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...Efficiency and Collaboration Alicia Mercier, Kathy Bowie, Angelia Moncrief-Wells, Beverly Yharbrough BIS/220 October 31, 2013 Frederick Lumpkin Efficiency and Collaboration The purpose of this proposal is to show the potential implementation of new information systems at Party Plates. There is so much excitement that comes with introducing all the new changes that could take place. The sales department is currently using Microsoft Excel but after looking around for something that would suit the businesses needs better it was found that Microsoft Access can fill those needs. As technology and our business grows there are always ways to improve. There are many benefits to switching over to Access that will benefit the company that will be discussed. Suggestions will be debated for future use of collaborative software and how it can help the sales department and how it can improve communications. Computers are very useful in today’s world. When you’re dealing with Microsoft excel, there’s a lot of information that you can create in Microsoft excel. Trying to convert data into Microsoft excel spreadsheet using Microsoft, is not an easy task. Excel can hold more information and it is generally very easy to read. Excel is a flat file database, not a relational database (Microsoft.com, 2013). Excel is very useful because you can analyze information or data, graphs, calculations, formulas, copy, paste and you can use it as a word document. You can decorate the spreadsheet...
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...Efficiency and Collaboration Proposal James M. McCarver, Jill Brogan, Judy Vilayphone, Lashunda Wallace, Laura Silberman, Mem Sanders BIS 220 May 13, 2013 Lars Vesterberg Efficiency and Collaboration Proposal The purpose of this proposal is to show you the potential implementation of new information systems at Party Plates. We are excited to introduce all the new changes taking place. The sales department is currently using Microsoft Excel but after looking around for something that would suit our needs better we found Microsoft Access. As technology and our business grow we are always looking for ways to improve. We will tell you how switching over to Access will benefit the company. We will also include suggestions for future use of collaborative software and how it can help the sales department improve communications. Stated below are the changes being made. Microsoft Access is a program that is used to store large data. Microsoft Access is very beneficial in the work environment, because of the different features that it offers, and it is easy to learn. The program is user friendly which incorporates other features offered through Microsoft Office. Without sacrificing performance, large amounts of data can be stored into the database. It is very easy to store available information into the database. If your office environment is large , Access may be programmed to retrieve information from the enterprise software. This short document will illustrate...
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...Proposal for Implementing Wireless Technologies Objective The objective is to provide a successful implementation of wireless technology that will work well and bring continued success to the growth of our company. Goals Our goal is to implement wireless technologies such as tablets and mobile broadband to allow more effective lines of communication with customers and employees which will increase revenue and productivity to allow continued growth. Benefits of Implementing Implementing wireless technologies into the Party Plates organization has many benefits utilizing such devices as the vast varieties of tablets and hot spot Wi-Fi systems. A few uses with the tablet are as follows the use within “sales support” is vital and can help boost accessibility to the sales representative and give an easier and very mobile use of a sales tool increasing productivity and marketing. As well as giving a new touch to product showcasing one can use a tablet to give a “customer presentation” either through a power point slide or a comprehensive in depth view of our many products and design customizations. Another wireless technology to be considered to implement into Party Plates is the use of wireless hot spot Wi-Fi, in the office many employees are confined to desktop computers. While the use of the Wi-Fi hotspot can allow office-based employees can network and collaborate while away from work, such as home to access corporate data while with customers on site. This is...
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...Efficiency and Collaboration Proposal Learning Team D BIS/220 October 20, 2014 Mr. Keith Hopkins Efficiency and Collaboration Proposal Party Plates A Business Proposal to Improve the Efficiency of our Current Information System used by our Sales Department Our sales department for Party Plates is currently using Microsoft® Excel to keep track of all personnel data. This proposal will provide an explanation as to why we believe Microsoft® Access would be more beneficial to use and other possible software uses. Microsoft® Access provides built-in tools that assists in organizing data that Microsoft® Excel does not. Currently, our personnel data is kept on an Excel spreadsheet. Converting this information to Access will allow Party Plates to share this database within our entire company, so that everyone will have access to it. The best thing that Access can do to impact the use of our personnel data information is that one of the tools allows us to create relationships (Office 2014). Doing so will allow us to efficiently combine data from our database to create forms and reports. With our increasing sales, our sales department will not be able to affectively track our personnel. Therefore, using Microsoft® Access will allow multiple fields instead of worksheets. It will also allow us to have multiple users to use one data source, so that a number of departments can view the data (Office 2014). Social media has taken over everywhere. Individuals use social media...
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...Wireless Technologies Proposal BIS/220 10/13/2014 Professor Dina Cobb Wireless Technologies Proposal In today’s technological world, Party Plates need to establish a competitive and innovative approach to utilizing technology trends to gain corporate goals. Our new mission is to create an environment where all departments can interact with customers and employees, to collaborate effectively. Accomplishing this goal will require the implementation of wireless technologies within this organization. Upon completing an intensive research, we would like to propose the implementation of Wireless Local Area Networking, also known as WLAN and Wireless Computers. The potential wireless technologies will improve communication, enhance efficiency and introduce new ideas of executing different tasks within Party Plates. Highlighted in this proposal are the pros and cons, justifications and potential risk of implementing these wireless technologies. Also included is a spreadsheet that validates the cost of the hardware and software that are required for the proposed wireless technologies. Overall, the new potential wireless technologies will leverage the company’s strategic mission to produce the best quality products based on customer’s demands. According to Snyder 2012, “In order to meet expectation of overall productivity such as production, distribution, etc, implementation of new technology should cohere with customer demands and company standards” (par.)...
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...Wireless Technologies Proposal Team B BIS/220 October 15, 2013 Instructor Ramin Tabrizi Wireless Technologies Proposal The cliental for Party Plates continues to expand and we would like to continue expanding as the best party planning business worldwide. For Party Plates to continue down this path of maintaining our goals that we have established in making it the successful business it is today, we are suggesting at least two wireless technologies that will help in continuing the financial growth that would not only benefit the company but our employees. These technologies we are suggesting for implementation are Wi-Fi or wireless fidelity and smartphones. This will not only boost growth but it plays a very large part in reducing cost. These cost reductions comes from inventory reduction, speed of transactions, access to markets and suppliers, and efficient supply chain management. Wi-Fi is allows computers, smartphones, or other devices to connect to the internet or communicate with one another wirelessly within a particular area. Because of its reliability and speed, it will help in generating business globally and locally. This will allow Party Plates to market a large variety of products and services worldwide. It will also open up online sales to international markets at a low cost. Wi-Fi allows employees to have access to their jobs assignments via the internet from home or anywhere in the world. The next wireless technology we would like to implement would...
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...Party Plates and Napkins Company Table of Contents Introduction 3 Benefits of Implementing Microsoft Access 3 Sales and Collaborative Software 4 Table……………………………………………………………………………………………....5 Conclusion 5 References...………………………………………………………………………………….……6 Proposal: Implementation of Microsoft Access Database Introduction Our party plates manufacturing business is growing and our customer base numbers are increasing every month therefore I am writing this proposal to implement a “Relational Database Management system”. The system we are proposing is Microsoft Access. The reason we are proposing to implement this new system is because since our business is growing it is getting cumbersome and time consuming to manage multiple “Excel” files to analyze company’s data. According to article by CPA Janet Samuels and Robert wood they suggest “Data handling and reporting capabilities of access are more efficient” (Samuels, Woods 2007). Excel should be used when we need to create a onetime report by plugging in data, however in access you will have to setup a database to form reports. Therefore, we should implement the relational database so information is forever stored and accessible by employees to create different multiple reports. The benefits of implementing Microsoft Access over Excel are listed below. Benefits of Implementing Microsoft Access 1. We can easily import all of our Excel files in to access by using the External data ribbon. This imported data will be...
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