Alternative Processing Site Proposal

R&D Media, LLC has asked you to develop a proposal for an Alternative Processing Site.

Conduct research on the latest technologies for Alternative Processing Sites (feel free to use your teamwork for this part of the assignment).
Determine who the companys stakeholders are.
Using the results of your research, develop the request for proposal that best meets the stakeholders requirements and incorporates innovative technologies.
Within your proposal you must also consider cost and what R&D Media, LLC can afford.
Develop and document the requirements for R&D Media, LLCs alternate processing site.
Identify the mission critical services and indicate services that are not provided at the alternate site. The plan must include all data security issues.
Create and document the design and do walkthroughs for building the alternate site to ensure that there are no omissions and errors.
Document the activation pro

As the new communications manager for International Gadgets, you have assembled a team of technical communicators with experience in communicating with various audiences in a business setting. Research & Development (R&D) has created a new product that it believes will revolutionize the industry. But the department needs the buy-in of several levels of the corporation to launch the new product. First, upper management needs to understand the product and how it will help the company expand before it will approve the funding needed to mass-produce the product. Sales and Marketing need to understand the product so it can be properly marketed. Technical Support needs to thoroughly know the product in order to support it to the customer base. And all employees need to know as much about the product as possible so that they can build excitement about the proposed launch. The head of R&D has come to you for your help in building excitement and buy-in throughout the company for the

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College Database

You help in the registrars office at your college. You are being asked to help update the colleges database by modifying some of the tables and by creating some queries and reports. You will use Microsoft Access to complete this exercise.

You will use the following skills as you complete this activity:

  Create and Modify Data Table

  Modify Field Properties

  Import Excel Data

  Establish Table Relationships

  Create AND Query

  Create Multitable Query

Instructions

1.  Open the TIA_Ch11_Start file and save the database as TIA_Ch11_LastFirst.

2.  Open the Faculty table in Design View. Change the Data Type of FullTime to Yes/No. Add a primary key to the FacultyID field. Move the DeptID field to be after the Title field.

3.  In t

For the Final Project, you are asked to write an eight-to ten-page research report (typed, double-spaced) in which you describe a company of your choice, the nature of its business, a specific product or service, and how that product or service is produced and distributed by the company and then recommend the information technology system you think should be in place and why. Address the following questions in narrative form (according to APA style). Be sure to provide examples and supporting rationale throughout the paper.

Company Background and Information Systems

What is the name, nature of business, and specific products or services of your chosen organization?
How are the products or services produced and distributed by the company?
Why are information systems essential in managing the organizations business?
Describe the existing information systems supporting the major business functions of the organization (e.g., sales and marketing, manufacturing and pro

You will write two programs to manage a TV-Shows database.
The first program collects the shows data from the user and stores it on a disk file (c:/temp/netflix.txt).
The second program reads the disk file data, generates the objects, adds them to a vector, changes their contents, and prints them.
Program 1
Step1: Data Collection
In this part, you will implement a function to prompt the user to type in data for at least four Netflix shows. The dialog should look like the following sample:
Enter show title:
Emily in Paris
Enter score (100 max):
64
Enter description:
Emily, an ambitious twenty-something marketing executive from Chicago, unexpectedly lands her dream job in Paris when her company acquires a French luxury marketing company -- and she is tasked with revamping their social media strategy.
After receiving the title, score, and description, you will write them to a disk file called c:/temp/netflix.txt.
The highest score is 100 (given t

You will write two programs to manage a TV-Shows database.
The first program collects the shows data from the user and stores it on a disk file (c:/temp/netflix.txt).
The second program reads the disk file data, generates the objects, adds them to a vector, changes their contents, and prints them.
Program 1
Step1: Data Collection
In this part, you will implement a function to prompt the user to type in data for at least four Netflix shows. The dialog should look like the following sample:
Enter show title:
Emily in Paris
Enter score (100 max):
64
Enter description:
Emily, an ambitious twenty-something marketing executive from Chicago, unexpectedly lands her dream job in Paris when her company acquires a French luxury marketing company -- and she is tasked with revamping their social media strategy.
After receiving the title, score, and description, you will write them to a disk file called c:/temp/netflix.txt.
The highest score is 100 (given t

You will write two programs to manage a TV-Shows database.
The first program collects the shows data from the user and stores it on a disk file (c:/temp/netflix.txt).
The second program reads the disk file data, generates the objects, adds them to a vector, changes their contents, and prints them.
Program 1
Step1: Data Collection
In this part, you will implement a function to prompt the user to type in data for at least four Netflix shows. The dialog should look like the following sample:
Enter show title:
Emily in Paris
Enter score (100 max):
64
Enter description:
Emily, an ambitious twenty-something marketing executive from Chicago, unexpectedly lands her dream job in Paris when her company acquires a French luxury marketing company -- and she is tasked with revamping their social media strategy.
After receiving the title, score, and description, you will write them to a disk file called c:/temp/netflix.txt.
The highest score is 100 (given t

Analyze Amazon.com using the competitive forces and value chain models. How has it responded to pressures from its competitive environment? How does it provide value to its customers?
Describe Amazons evolving business strategy. Why did the company change its strategy?
Conduct research and discuss the different markets that Amazon.com is expanding into (Books, Video, Music, General Merchandise, Cloud Computing, Devices).  Discuss the competitive advantage that Amazon.com has in these diverse markets. Is the competitive advantage in each the same?  Address why or why not.
Product Marketing is based upon the five Ps (Product, Place, Promotion, Price, and Profit).  Discuss the Amazon.com approach to each and how this contributes to competitive advantage.
Do you think Amazon can continue to be successful? Explain your answer.

You must have at least 6 references.
Read the following:

Amazon.com: An Internet Giant Fine-Tunes its Strategy in Laudon

iscuss the resource-based view of competitive advantage.  What are the characteristics of resources that may yield sustainable competitive advantage? Describe the role that Information systems can play in creating sustainable competitive advantage.
Briefly comment on Carrs It Doesnt Matter argument, offer your thoughts.
You must have at least 5 cited references

Assessment Description

This is an individual assignment. You must make a reasonable attempt at all parts to obtain a passing grade.

Objective: Construct a small commercial database and demonstrate its functionality

Identify and examine three different websites which offer an online purchasing facility. Look particularly at the interactive pages used for the purchasing function and from these lists all the fields that have to be completed by the purchaser for each site. (Note that you do not have to limit yourself to data-entry fields, for higher marks analyse the websites for other possible attributes.) From your three sets of attributes, produce one generic list.  (15%)

From this generic list, construct an Extended Entity Relationship (EER) diagram for a database that would support an on-line purchasing facility. Construct a supporting Table Schema. Explain your thinking, and any assumptions made in this process. (25%)

Using the software provide