...Simple Getaways, Inc. Request for Proposal Response 1 Simple Getaways, Inc. Request for Proposal Response Abstract Simple Gateways, Inc. is a regional travel and tourism company with 12 offices in the western United States stretching from Oregon to California and inland to New Mexico. Simple Gateways focuses on travel to island vacations around the world. They are challenged with poor performing Information Systems (IS). Simple Gateway IS produce multiple versions of documents utilized by staff to make poorly informed business decisions. This paper is an analysis of the challenges to the key Simple Getaways stakeholders, actual performance and desired performance. A technological solution is defined and supported to address the alignment of the IS to the Simple Gateways business objectives. Simple Getaways, Inc. Request for Proposal Response 3 Simple Getaways, Inc. Request for Proposal Response The current implemented IS in the Simple Gateways is designed to provide control benefits. The IS was intended to facilitate information to provide the stakeholder the ability to make better decisions and actions. (Chew & Gottschalk, 2009) The current IS produces multiple versions of the same documents used by the office staff. The offices are segregated from each other with their own file servers making e-mail channels the current means to share documents from one store to another. The multiple versions does not assure the information to be accurate or up to date...
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...Awesome-O Technologies, Inc. 1234 Brookview Ln Waldorf, MD 20601 (301) 867-5309 TECHNOLOGY UPGRADE PROPOSAL 14 May 2015 Simple Gateways, Inc 1923 Technology Pkwy Ft. Washington, MD 20744 Prepared by Chris Andes, Chief Emerging Technology Planner. Introduction. Simple Getaways, Inc. is a regional travel and tourism company headquartered in California. Simple Getaways specializes in travel to island destinations throughout the world, such as Hawaii, Tahiti, Fiji, the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, the Seychelles, the Caymans, and many other exotic, tropical locations. Simple Getaways currently operates 12 offices across the western United States, stretching from Oregon to California and inland to New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah. Key Stakeholders. Management: Managers have numerous difficulties when trying to organize and control company operations with the current technology employed. Tasking personnel can only be accomplished via e-mail or phone calls; as such management is largely restricted to personnel at the immediate location. The current communications methods make it nearly impossible to properly manage projects with personnel from multiple locations. Routine managerial functions (i.e. tracking goals and timelines, conflict resolution, employee evaluations, etc.) will be greatly hindered without an updated technological solution. Office Managers/Administrators: Administrators cannot accurately account for personnel and...
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...Proposal Simple Getaways, Inc. Written by Rachael Deming Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Key Stakeholders 4 Actual Performance and Desired Performance 5 Justification 5 References 7 Executive Summary Simple Getaways, Inc. is a travel agency that specializes in island vacations. Due to the overwhelming success of the company, they have grown from one office located in California to 12 all across the United States. Due to this expansion, the communication between headquarters and human resources has become increasingly challenging. When employees request leave or there is a change in an employee's file, a paper document is used. When headquarters requests a document from one of the offices, that particular document is either mailed or faxed. The hard copies are stored in a file cabinet. The file sharing has also become an issue because each location utilizes a Windows file server. The offices do not have central file sharing. That does not allow for real time file sharing. The current way employees work on files together is by emailing each other. When the revisions are completed, the file goes back to the original employee. This causes a delay in processing and outdated paperwork. I propose the company utilizes a central server that every office has access. With a new file sharing system, anytime a file is changed, the revised version is immediately available for any employee...
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...RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL PREPARED FOR SIMPLE GETAWAYS, INC JANUARY 1, 2015 Table of Contents Section 1: Introduction3 Section 2: Current Software & Hardware4 Overview of Challenges4 Section 3: Proposed Software & Hardware Solution 5 SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION The purpose of this Request for Proposal (RFP) document is to identify the software arrangement and business process that will allow Simple Getaways to address their change management needs as well as streamline their internal processes most effectively. Section Two: Current Software and Hardware As of today, Simple Getaways is utilizing a Windows Server fileserver to maintain login credentials specific to each of their twelve offices. Each office has their own Microsoft Exchange server to handle e-mails. As such, Simple Getaways effectively has 12 environments to maintain, both hardware and software license-wise. Communication via offices is not streamlined; while documents can be emailed, internal documents are still handled with physical paper, even though each of the employees have a Windows-based system with the Microsoft Office suite at their disposal. Overview of Challenges Current limitations of their software solution cause the largest issue to be incorrect data being propagated through the company. Because of a lack of change management tracking within their current software set, it is possible for key stakeholders to be working concurrently on a document while being...
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...OVERVIEW Due to several years of growth, Simple Getaways, Inc. (SGI) has expanded from a single California office to twelve offices distributed throughout the western United States with approximately 270 employees. Methods of communication and data storage that are currently being used were adequate for a single office but are no longer sufficient to meet the needs of Simple Getaways, Inc. This proposal will address the requirements for file storage and management, collaborative communication, information sharing within and between offices and the automation of administrative workflow. CHALLENGES AFFECTING KEY STAKEHOLDERS The processes currently being used at Simple Getaways for communication and the distribution of information are no longer suitable for the organization. Documents from each office are stored onsite on a Microsoft Windows file server, making it difficult for other offices to access and use the information they contain. Currently the method used to share files with other offices is via email. This results in multiple copies of the same document residing on various computers at multiple office locations. The duplicate versions are not updated when the original document is modified which leads to different versions of the same document being used. Some business decisions are being made using information from the outdated documents. For example, a document containing airline ticket pricing may be used when creating price quotes for customer travel, but...
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...| Current and Emerging Technology – LYT2 Task 1 | | PREPAREDFORSimple Getaways, Inc.RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL September 22, 2014 | Contents I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2 II. BACKGROUND 2 a. Current Issues 2 b. Key Stakeholders 2 Sponsorship/Champion 2 III. ACTUAL PERFORMANCE VS. DESIRED PERFORMANCE 4 a. Document Management 4 b. Administrative tasks 4 IV. PROPOSED SOLUTION 4 a. Document Management/ Collaboration 4 Key Benefits 5 b. Workforce Management 5 Key Benefits 6 V. Conclusion 6 VI. References 6 I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Based upon the two major challenge detailed in the Simple Getaways’ RFP, both challenges appear to steam from the current decentralized structure of the organization. Each office is acting as its own entity, with its own document management and workforce management. By implementing Huddle for document management and Oracle’s workforce management solution it will be possible to centralize both document management and workforce management across the entire organization. Greatly improving the sharing/ collaboration of documents as well as improving controls around workforce management. II. BACKGROUND This document is in response to the RFP created by Simple Getaways, Inc., requesting solutions for a new information processing system. a. Current Issues There are a number of challenges with Simple Getaways’ current system: * Little to no version control of documents, multiple versions of documents exist...
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...LYT2 Current and Emerging Technology Task 1 Brian Reynolds Western Governors University Overview Simple Getaways, Inc. (SGI) originated in California, now encompasses an additional twelve regional offices located throughout the west coastal region of the United States. Data storage and communication methods, originally based on a single office, are no longer adequate to the needs of SGI. This proposal is to address the requirement for collaboration between and within offices, as well as data storage and management. Challenges facing Key Stakeholders At Simple Getaways, the company management staff and travel agents face several challenges using existing Information Systems technology. Each regional office maintains its own Windows Server as a fileserver and well as a Microsoft Exchange server for email functionality. Due to this, all documents as distributed throughout the company offices. This has required office staff to email documents to recipients at other offices when required. The recipient then preforms any edits or modifications that are required, then emails the document back to the originating office. When the document is required by multiple offices, the returned documents must be examined and collated by the originating staff. This often results in missing or inaccurate data in the final document. In addition to the document issues, the administrative staff faces the challenges of paper driven tasks. When administrative tasks, such as leave requests...
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...Request for Proposal (RFP) Task 1 1. Introduction The purpose of this project is to introduce a new network infrastructure design for Simple Gateway Inc. The new network design will solve the existing problem with the multiple versions of the same document in each regional offices, digitize, and automate the workflow associate with administrative tasks. 2. Summary and Background Simple Gateway Inc. is a regional travel and tourism company Headquarters in California with 12 branch offices across the western United States. As of now, each office network operates independently with their own window base file server, an exchange server, and all of the data (File and Document) are stored locally. There is no centralized network and system infrastructure. 3. The current challenges in the Simple gateway affecting Key stakeholders Simple Gateway Inc.’s decentralized network was affecting the day to day business operation, and every day employee productivity was very low within the organization. Furthermore, currently affected shareholders are the chairman, vice president, director of operations, area managers, human resources, office manager, and office staff. Overall the stakeholder main problems are: Since each regional office was operating independently, there was no standardized version control of the document. Each regional office had a different version of the same document. Due to the lack of transparency and visibility of company data among the...
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...Introduction: Expedia, Inc. is the largest travel company in the world with an extensive portfolio featuring some of the world’s leading online travel brands. Collectively, these brands cover virtually every aspect of researching, planning and booking travel. Named the top travel company on Travel Weekly’s 2013 Power List, Expedia, Inc. delivers consumers value in leisure and business travel, drives incremental demand and direct bookings to travel suppliers, and provides advertisers the opportunity to reach a highly valuable audience of in-market travel consumers, in addition to powering bookings for some of the world’s leading airlines and hotels, top consumer brands, high traffic websites, and thousands of active affiliates. The company is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, with additional operations in nearly 70 offices across the globe. For additional corporate industry news and views, follow us on Twitter @expediainc. Expedia, Inc. is a publicly-traded company listed under the ticker symbol EXPE on the NASDAQ Global Market. Expedia is an Internet-based travel website company headquartered in Bellevue, WA, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Indonesia, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, SouthKorea, Malaysia, Mexico,Netherlands, NewZealand, Norway, Philippines, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, UK, US). Created by Rich Barton and Lloyd Frink. It books airline tickets, hotel reservations, car rentals, cruises, vacation packages and various attractions...
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...Crime Causation and Diversion paper Crime causation and diversion paper In society today, there are a lot more juveniles involved in criminal activity. More juveniles Have low self esteem, poor decision-making, and hardly any communication skills. More teens are hanging out with a negative group of people, and a lot come from a dysfunctional family these re some of the characteristics of delinquent youth creations (Extension Journal, Inc. 1993). There are many different types of juvenile diversion, intervention and prevention programs and also resources for juvenile offenders to help with rehabilitation. These programs were created to deter juveniles from committing crimes and reduce the rate of juveniles recommitting crimes. Within this paper there will be two programs that will be discussed with in California, explain how the programs work, and their goals to reduce crime and increase rehabilitation rates. Also discussed will be there program objectives and beliefs of their programs and the key participates in both programs. Also discussed will be the services these programs provide for the youth as well as family. And lastly, the comparison of these programs will be discussed and identification will be made on which may be more effective at the reduction of juvenile crime and how that may be true. The first program is “City Hearts Program” Prosecutors, probation officers and judges who serve the Northeast Juvenile Justice Center are recommending City Hearts classes for...
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...Crime Causation and Diversion paper CJA/374 FEB-5-2013 LaJuana Haselrig Crime causation and diversion paper In society today there are much more juveniles involved in criminal activity. More juveniles Have low self esteem, poor decision-making, and hardly any communication skills. More teens are hanging out with a negative group of people, and a lot come from a dysfunctional family these are some of the characteristics of delinquent youth creations (Extension Journal, Inc. 1993). There are many different types of juvenile diversion, intervention, and prevention programs and also resources for juvenile offenders to help with rehabilitation. These programs were created to deter juveniles from committing crimes and reduce the rate of juveniles recommitting crimes. Within this paper there will be two programs that will be discussed with in California, explain how the programs work, and their goals to reduce crime and increase rehabilitation rates. Also discussed will be there program objectives and beliefs of their programs and the key participates in both programs. Also discussed will be the services these programs provide for the youth as well as family. Lastly, the comparison of these programs will be discussed and identification will be made on which may be more effective at the reduction of juvenile crime and how that may be true. The first program is “City Hearts Program”...
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...Strategic Analysis Marcel Campbell University of the Incarnate Word Table of Contents Executive Summary………………………………………………………………… 3 Company Overview…………………………………………………………………. 4 Mission, vision, Values……………………………………………………………… 5 History……………………………………………………………………………….. 6 Key Executives………………………………………………………………………. 7 Logo………………………………………………………………………………….. 8 Awards……………………………………………………………………………….. 9 Internal Analysis……………………………………………………………………. 10-22 External Analysis…………………………………………………………………….23-36 Strategies…………………………………………………………………………… 36-53 References………………………………………………………………………….. 54-58 Executive Summary Groupon Humans are living in the digital age and technology has become crucial to the development of the world. Technology helps people in many positive ways, such as faster communication, easy access of vast quantities of information, and efficient, fast transportation. Therefore, businesses also benefit from technology. Technology helps companies to reach consumers fast and help to study the behavior of consumers when buying a product or service to create profit. Groupon uses technology to provide coupons to savvy consumers. Groupon is a company in the daily deals industry. The company provides daily deals online, usually provides coupons with a half price discount from local restaurants, bars, movie theaters, luxury hotels; helping other companies to attract customers by offering savings on things to eat...
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...| Friday » October 19 » 2007 | | | A tale of three good companies and their people | Melanie Collison | Freelance | Saturday, October 13, 2007EDMONTON The idea that individuals are important and can make a worthwhile contribution is front and centre as Edmonton's top companies compete for employees in this labour-short marketplace.To recruit and retain the people of their choice, they're offering recognition, and access to executive ears. They're covering tuition, and investing in safety, health and wellness. And they're building in fun and flexibility.Here are three Alberta companies that embody modern workforce thinking.MICRALYNE INC.A custom electronics components manufacturing firm, Micralyne is one of a mere handful that make microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) used by specialized instrument makers.MEMS components are so tiny that hundreds and hundreds fit on a chip the size of your fingertip. These components move when an electrical force is applied, and trigger an automobile's air bag release, for instance, or direct an overseas telephone call, explains says Jaya Gurjar, marketing and communications.A spinoff from a University of Alberta research facility, Micralyne thrives on new ideas and an open door policy."People are definitely appreciated by management," Gurjar says. "Within the company, there's room to grow."The company as a whole is growing, too, both in its physical plant in the Edmonton Research Park, and in the global marketplace where employees...
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...[Type text] DATA WAREHOUSE Introduction In todays competitive and information packed age, management, executives and business users need well organized data for decision support and for the organizational planning. Decision Support Systems (DSS) were developed to aid executives and managers to better understand the information and facilitate at making better decisions. But DSS has its own limitations. Due to the information requirement and their complexity, it was difficult for Decision Support System to extract all necessary information from the data. Therefore to overcome this drawback, a new data storage system, called the Data Warehouse was developed. What is a Data Warehouse? A data warehouse is a relational database. It is not used for daily routine transaction processing. It contains remarkable (having great significance) data derived from the transaction data. It also contains data from other sources like external systems, or applications. It is designed for query and analysis. Copyright 2011. Do not copy or publish any part of this document without author's permission. [Type text] Data Warehouse Vs Traditional Database A database is a collection of the relational data. Database system comprises of a database and database software. Similarly, a data warehouse is a collection of relational data as well as supporting system. If we look closer at it, we will find that both the traditional database and the data warehouse have indexes, fields, keys, views...
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...Borders Books which was founded in 1971 by Tom and Louis Borders. Two brothers opened an 800-square-foot used bookstore and called it Borders Book Shop located at 211 S. South State St. in Ann Arbor Michigan. Borders had eight CEO’s over its 40 years. Starting in 1988 when Borders recruits Robert DiRomualdo to lead the company's expansion. DiRomualdo is later credited with leading the company's rise to national prominence in the 1990s. The highest point of Borders was in the 1990’s under DiRomualdo’s leadership as CEO, the company started integrating music and movies into some of its stores. In 1992 Borders chooses not to go public but rather to allow Kmart Corporation acquire them and in 1995 the book store chain, renamed Borders Group Inc., spins off from Kmart and goes public on the New York Stock Exchange. At the time, Borders' innovative inventory management system was considered "the envy of the industry". The 1990’s Borders adds 52 superstores in the biggest one-year expansion in its history. In May 1998, Borders launches an online retail presence for the first time at Borders.com. In November 1998 Borders had its first CEO turnover with bringing on Philip Pfeffer and the last CEO turnover in June 2010 with Bennett LeBow. In 2005 Borders reaches an annual profit of $101.0 million. In August 2001 Borders Books makes a decision that later will be seen as one of the blames...
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