...Module 4 Assignment 2 Cloud Solutions Angelique Lenox Argosy University 5 October 2014 Business Description for The Niche Factory The Niche Factory is an experiential marketing, social media & branding agency that leverages human connection to impact consumers and influencers in smart, meaningful ways. We accomplish this through Event Marketing, Event Production; Digital; Activations; Public Relations, Data Capture and of course, Experiential that focuses on directly engaging consumers and invites and encourages consumers to participate in the evolution of your brand. The brand and the "brand experience" are directly taken to consumers through interactive channels of retail, digital and live events. The Niche Factory is currently considering a new CRM system. The cloud is driving faster release & upgrade cycles overall. Customers use cloud applications in their everyday lives and those consumer applications typically have rapid response to feedback. The nature of cloud allows companies to be much more responsive giving you the flexibility to push out updates when you need to. (Columbus, 2013) There are a many cloud service companies to consider – you have to make a choice between an established, proven vendor or taking a chance as an early adopter of something new. (Columbus, 2013) In this case, we will look at three established, proven vendors: Google Compute Engine (GCE), Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft...
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...would employ if he were entering the organization at the senior management level. Specifically, this paper addresses perspectives of the PEO-EIS and his Chief Information Officer in the operation and strategic planning for the organization. The observations and recommendations presented are based primarily upon the perception of the employee but solicitation of other employees and online resources were used in completing this assessment. While the mission of all individual PEO-EIS programs were considered during the assessment, the focus remains on the organization as a whole and recommendations are for improvements to the entire organization and not any individual programs. Keywords: Technology, PEO-EIS, Partnerships, Cloud Computing, Software Factory, Futurist. An Initial Assessment of Program Executive Office – Enterprise Information Systems (PEO-EIS) Operational and Strategic Initiatives Executive Summary Playing the role as arriving Program Executive Officer for Enterprise Information Systems and acting as my own Chief Information Officer the following bullets summarize the recommendations that the organization is asked to consider: * Focus on the current PEO-EIS business objections concentrating on operational requirements during the current situation which limits fiscal resources. * Deliver systems that are easy to operate and cost effective to sustain. * At all organizational levels look for ways to exploit emerging technologies. We need to...
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...business. 1) Judge how Volvo Car Corporation integrated the cloud infrastructure into its networks. Volvo Car Corporation has doing successfully the integration of cloud infrastructure into its networks. They have captured terabytes of data through sensors and CPUs embedded in their cars, and transmitting to manufacturer via cloud. Then, those data are streamed into Volvo data warehouse with others data coming from customer’s relationships management, from dealerships, their production/factory floors and product development and design systems. All those data stored and use by Volvo give him a real advantage in its field of business. 2) Explain how Volvo car corporation transforms data into knowledge Once those terabytes of data are collected and stored into Volvo data warehouse, they combined and analyzed them to extract useful information. Those information help Volvo Car Corporation either to be predictive or proactive. As said Rich Strader, CIO’s chair at Volvo” by splicing that data together, we are pre-warned about potential issues such as mechanical problems that might have shown up late in the field”. An example of this, is the enhance of the Swedish company’s market based on his safety record. 3) Identify the real-time information system implemented and evaluate the impact of those implementations. The real time information system implemented by Volvo is online real time processing via cloud. The system...
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...once we receive the drive, all data is completely erased and irrecoverable. If you need data recovery, please click on the link below for a list of WD data recovery partners. Once they recover your data, you can then send the drive in for replacement. c. Answer ID 70: Can I recover data on my drive, obtain a circuit board, repair my drive, or find a list of WD data recovery partners?. 2. How to reset a WD My Cloud, Mirror, EX2, or EX4 Personal Cloud drive d. WD My Cloud i. With the device powered on, please insert a paperclip or narrow tipped pen into the Reset button slot on the back of the device, which is located right above the USB port of the unit. ii. Press and hold down the Reset button for four seconds. When the button is released, the device will reboot. This process may take up to three minutes to complete. e. Performing a System Restore through the Reset button iii. The Reset button may also be used to perform a System Restore on the device. At the same time as the power is plugged to the WD My Cloud device, pressing the Reset button and holding it for about 40 seconds, will make the device to go through a System Restore instead of a Reset....
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...expected to change the manufacturing sector by 2025 through significant innovation2. The first industrial revolution involved saw the adoption of steam power. The second industrial revolution or Industry 2.0 was all about the rise of electricity and the 3rd revolution was the digital revolution when electronics broke the market. The transformation to the new age Industry entails the inclusion of sensors, machines, workpieces, and IT solutions along the value chains and beyond a single enterprise. This will enable the connected systems to interact for predicting failure and adapting to such circumstances. Consequently, manufacturing productivity increases, fosters industrial growth and in turn will change the face of competition in the factories of the future. Building Blocks of Industry 4.0 Industry 4.0 is a optimized and automated workflow, driving efficiencies and changing the nature of relationships between man and machine * Big Data & Analytics: The recent surge in the need for meaningful data in the manufacturing sector has induced a pressing need for big data. Big Data has the potential to optimize production quality,...
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...chemical factory caused one of the highest-casualty industrial accidents of the 20th century. The Bhopal disaster was a gas leak incident in India, considered as the world's worst industrial disaster ever known to mankind. At least 2000 people died immediately and another 200.000 to 300.000 people suffered respiratory or got other injuries. The incident started by the ventilation of the poisonous gas to the atmosphere, namely Methylisocyanate (MIC). As the density of the gas is more than the density of the air itself, it has caused the accumulation of the toxic gas in a cloud form but it is close to the ground. Eventually the cloud of poisonous MIC gas streamed through the entire city of Bhopal like a sand storm on desert, leaving no chances for the citizens of Bhopal to rescue themselves The initial Indian managing and supervisory staff for the Bhopal production unit were trained in Union Carbide’s West Virginia. They began leaving for more attractive jobs and were replaced by less-skilled employees. Low production volumes seemed to justify reductions in the workforce though the local labor unions insisted that they were going too far. In the MIC, the workforce was reduced from the Union Carbide recommended 3 supervisors and 12 workers on each shift to 1 supervisor and 6 workers. In the evening of 2 December, the supervisor ordered workers to perform a periodic washing of pipes in the MIC storage area to control corrosion. Most of the safety systems in the factory were not in...
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...The Apple Supply Chain: The Best in the World? by Steve Banker July 2nd, 2012 Many supply chain professionals consider Apple’s supply chain to be the best in the world. I don’t. The reasoning appears to be that since Apple is one of the fastest growing and most profitable companies in the world, it must surely have one of the best supply chains too. This is a “halo effect” fallacy. Apple is the best in the world at innovative product development. Because the company develops hardware, software, and associated digital services—rather than just focusing on one dimension—it can provide an unmatched user experience. This allows Apple to capture high margins from its products and services. But by my definition, product development is not supply chain management; procurement, manufacturing, and logistics are. That said, Apple has a fascinating supply chain that is very different from traditional supply chains. This supply chain comes with pre-built advantages and disadvantages. On the advantage side, demand management is easier. Apple doesn’t have to get the demand forecast for a new product right. As long as it underestimates demand for a hot new product, Apple will have loyal customers clamoring for the new devices and willing to wait. In fact, the projected backlog leads customers to line up for hours before stores open to buy a new product. This helps to create marketing buzz. Because Apple has become so large, it has procurement advantages smaller rivals can’t match....
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...Permission to use paper as an example was granted by the student IS535 Table of Content Proposal 3 Introduction 3 Business Problem 3 General Benefits 4 High Level Approaches 4 Audience 5 Milestone1 5 Company Background 5 Business Issue 5 Benefits of Solving Problem 6 Business approach of solving the problem 7 Milestone 2 8 Solution 8 Value of the approach 9 Business Process Changes 10 Milestone 3 11 Business Addition 11 Summary of Milestones 12 Conclusion 13 Recommendations 13 Work Cited 14 Proposal Introduction In 2011, Google Inc. took a big step in their future by merging with Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. With this merger, Google Inc and Motorola Mobility became a major competitor to Apple Inc. organization. Motorola Mobility is the second largest designer and manufacturer of cell phones and tablet devices. Their product which features Google’s Android base software is sold all around the world. In the 4th quarter of 2011, Motorola Mobility manufacturer, Foxconn Technology Group, shipped about 10.5 millions mobile devices out to stores worldwide (Marketwatch, 2012). To satisfy this high demand of mobile devices, Foxconn need to make the necessary adjustment in their building to be able to make their daily goal of mobile devices built. Business Problem With the high demand of mobile devices needed by Motorola Mobility to satisfy all their customers, the manufacturer has to run the lines full time on all three shifts. When an...
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...Supporting a Global Leader in Cleaning Rock-solid hosting and responsive support cloud services • managed IT outsourcing securahosting.com Supporting a Global Leader in Cleaning Numatic International Ltd are perhaps most widely recognised in the UK for their iconic Henry vacuum cleaner but they produce a huge range of cleaning products and equipment. They are a global presence, with offices in the UK, Holland, Germany, France, South Africa and Switzerland. Secura have been working with Numatic since 2006, supporting their website and email with reliable, secure hosting, with a service and support wrap designed to make their web infrastructure as light-touch as possible. Garage to Global Founded in 1969, Numatic has grown continuously over the last four decades from an initial team of 6 engineers working in a workshop space no bigger than a garage, to a business that now employs over 700 people across 6 countries. Today’s Numatic factory and warehouse in Chard, Somerset, occupies 10 hectares and produces over 4000 products each day. A network of over 40 PCs and a sophisticated Oracle based ERP system control the important day-to-day processes, state-of-the-art CAD-CAM systems and Rapid-Prototype modelling facilities in the factory. The Henry Phenomenon Cleaning equipment is not usually a product category that creates a global community of devoted followers and collectors but Henry Hoover (and pals) have done just that. Numatic ...
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...variability. One reason why it has been so broadly read is that it frames these concepts in the guise of a novel. This makes the ideas easy to read and digest. The premise is that Alex, a factory manager, is given an ultimatum -- dramatically improve the performance of his factory in three months, or the facility will be shut down. Believing that traditional improvement strategies will never make enough difference in such a short time, Alex must resort to more desperate measures. He tracks down an old professor, now working as a consultant, and begs for advice. The advice of this consultant, Jonah, sets Alex and his team, on a journey. Instead of just giving them the answers, Jonah asks them questions, and refuses to give more help until each question has been answered. As Alex learns through this process, so does the reader. Some of the lessons of the book include the following. When you are productive you are accomplishing something in terms of your goals. Every action that brings a company closer to its goal is productive. The goal of a manufacturing organization is to make money. | Because of variability, a factory cannot be run at 100% of capacity. Or, as Jonah says, “the closer you come to a balanced plant, the closer you come to bankruptcy.” | One of the biggest problems in improving your factory is collecting the right data. Alex eventually concludes that “we're going to have to accept the fact that we're not going to have perfect data to work with.” | “An hour lost at...
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...Capitalism, Industrialization, and the Factory written by Jonathan Purdue discussing the definition of factories in the early republic. Purdue expresses the need to look beyond the common definition of factories, which focuses on big machinery and increasing numbers of workforce, to the distinguishing key elements of production and increasing output and profits (Purdue, 2006). This paper discusses how modern day conceptions of factories and industrialization affect the interpretation of historical industrialization and provides thoughts on whether the development of factories represents positive progress in the transition to capitalism. Modern Day Conceptions of Early American Factories & Industrialization One of the earliest symbols that man recognizes as a representation of economic change and industrialization in the early republic is the factory (Purdue, 2006). Conceptions of the modern day factory have influenced the oversimplification of the complex nature of what factories in the early republic actually were (Purdue, 2006). When the 21st century American thinks of a factory we immediately think of large concrete buildings filled with machinery and huge clouds of black smoke emitting from tall smoke stacks. This notion of vast centralized technologically-driven structures filled with large numbers of underpaid workers is one stereotypically pictured when imagining what the first factories were like in early America (Purdue, 2006)...
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...ordinary ticket. The ticket was gold and made of chocolate. In the back of the ticket was an address carved into the thin, brown, milk chocolate. An old, beat up, yellow taxi cab carried me to my destination. The building was huge and what looked like to be a factory of some kind. I walked cautiously to the front door of the building to meet four other people. All of our stories matched up. They had also strangely awoken to a ticket by their side. “Surely they know what is going on”, I said to myself. None of them were aware of anything that was going on....
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...user conversion and the competitive threats. First, it is important to describe how each of these issues came about and why they are critical for Dropbox going forward. When A. Ferdowsi and D. Houston launched Dropbox in 2007, they knew that getting business customers would be tough due to bureaucratic delays in getting them to integrate the services into their operations. Another problem was that getting individuals to pay for Dropbox was hard because mainstream consumers were still not used to using cloud-storage services. To overcome that, they first focused on the individual consumer market (rather than corporate clients) and adopted a new pricing concept called “Freemium” which consists in giving away basic services for free (and thus only charging for premium versions). By coupling this “free way” to try the service with an efficient incentive program allowing people to get free storage upgrades, Dropbox was able to hold a large share of the consumer cloud storage market but also to indirectly penetrate the corporate world. Indeed, Houston’s goal was to get individuals to use and like Dropbox so much that they, in turn, got their employers to sign up as well. All this worked so well that they grew from 4 million users in 2010 to 200 million in 2013. The next step for Dropbox was to directly target corporate customers. Therefore, Dropbox for business was launched and became another success (by the end of 2013, roughly 40% of their annual speculated $400 ...
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...Oracle White Paper—Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Brief Introduction An Oracle White Paper March 2011 Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud: A Brief Introduction Oracle White Paper—Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Brief Introduction Disclaimer The following is intended to outline our general product direction. It is intended for information purposes only, and may not be incorporated into any contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any material, code, or functionality, and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions. The development, release, and timing of any features or functionality described for Oracle‘s products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle. Oracle White Paper—Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud Brief Introduction Introduction For most enterprise IT organizations, years of innovation, expansion, and acquisition have resulted in sprawling infrastructure that stretches the limits of manageability. While the individual IT systems and applications in service are often well considered and expertly implemented, the sheer scale of the ongoing IT investment itself has emerged as the dominant concern. Even when best-of-breed technologies, open standards, market-leading vendors, and modern architectural practices like SOA have been employed pervasively, most enterprises now find themselves with too many platforms, too many technologies, too many domains of expertise, and too many vendors to coordinate and manage. In response, a number of technologies...
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...today’s society. Similarly, users (consumers) need to pay providers only when they access the computing services. In addition, consumers no longer need to invest heavily or encounter difficulties in building and maintaining complex IT infrastructure. In such a model, users access services based on their requirements without regard to where the services are hosted. This model has been referred to as utility computing, or recently as Cloud computing . The latter term denotes the infrastructure as a “Cloud” from which businesses and users can access applications as services from anywhere in the world on demand. Hence, Cloud computing can be classified as a new paradigm for the dynamic provisioning of computing services supported by state-of-the-art data centers that usually employ Virtual Machine (VM) technologies for consolidation and environment isolation purposes . Many computing service providers including Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and IBM are rapidly deploying data centers in various locations around the world to deliver Cloud computing services. Cloud computing delivers infrastructure, platform, and software (applications) as services, which are made available to...
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