Executive Summary
Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) maintains 3 critical issues. These issues are processing inefficiency, lack of communication between the departments, and insufficient planning. Mark Duncan has been given the task to fix these critical issues. Mark plans to use business intelligence (BI) system to help with these critical issues. Ideally a BI system should help analyze data by department, record important information, and help forecast traffic for future periods.
Although a BI system will definitely help them function more efficiently, they must also hire additional IT technicians that are more capable of maintaining the system. IT technicians will be able to repair or prevent any technical down time.
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Rather than waiting for after-hours to repair the screening equipment, CATSA has the option of hiring technicians for on site repairs and maintenance. The cost associated with hiring an IT technician is an estimated average annual salary of $48,652 (Exhibit 2).
The IT technician can also help CATSA prevent problems with their equipments by being able to detect problems within the systems and equipment early and fixing these problems. As a result, this could reduce the amount of time needed to repair equipment outside of regular operating hours.
Hiring IT staff will not only help maintain the systems and equipments but they will also be able to provide data backup. The IT staff will be able to implement a plan in the event of a catastrophe to be able to recover important data lost. These data could be from the analytics created by the BI system or the programs that are already set in place by CATSA (www.tucsonwebsitepro.com).
As a result, it would be quite beneficial to hire an IT team of approximately 15 technicians for a total average annual cost to salaries of $729,780. This is a small price to pay when CATSA spent over $100 million to create the current systems. This $100 million would be the expected cost just to replace their systems; it would not take into consideration the amount of money lost due to down time from the systems being unusable.
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focus of their job. Nevertheless, if an error occurs they are not the only responsible party. Most laws involving medical liability state that liability lies with the company and the competent medical professionals involved with error. Once a technician
computer was in operation. Salaries of the programming staff that provided service to clients and
As we discuss the possibility of emerging into business intelligence software we must keep in mind the overall purpose of using any type of software is to reach strategic goals in order to increase market shares. I will discuss how business intelligence software will allow us to meet those strategic goals. We will establish what type of information and analysis capabilities will be available once this business intelligence software is implemented. We will discuss hardware and system software that will be required to run specific business intelligence software. Lastly, I will give a brief synopsis on three vendors (IBM, Microsoft Microsoft and Oracle) that are dominating the business information software
All the work that needs to be done above needs to be finished and completed within a timescale of 3 weeks with a budget of £1000 the impact this has on the company is that they will have to trust the technicians to work out of hours on the equipment and machines due to the office needing to stay open after closing
Most estimates place in-house retirement of assets at $300-$500 per computer. With 2270 computers currently in use by company employees (additional 49 in reserve), this equates to more than $900,000 to turn over all of our desktops and laptops. This does not include all of our servers and other storage units. The overall cost would be in excess of $1 million. While this amount falls well within our IT budget of $80 million, there may be another, more economical way in which to retire our outdated equipment.
upgrade its IT infrastructure to ensure it is capable of handling the requirements of the
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The cost of implementation of the options: It is found in the survey that 20% customers had had repeat work. Considering 5% as redundant, the customer erosion could be as large as $4.37 million (Exhibit 2). Thus making the investment of $75000 is completely justified.
Michael Eubanks of Canadian Tire Corporation (CTC) is in charge of the implementation of a business intelligence (BI) system for the company. This implementation began in 2003 and was to be completed in 2005. In 2006, the project is only in the 2nd of 3 phases. He is now faced with a problem. The implementation is going much slower than he anticipated. His goal is to implement BI as soon as possible, so what does he need to do so that he can reach this goal?
With limited budget to spend for upgrade, BAL had to consider a more rational way to improve current system. In addition, regarding the company size, there wouldn’t be economy of scale at
Each doctor, nurse and member of the staff will have access to their own workstation, a Dell Vostro 260 Slim. These desktops will come with their own twenty-four inch wide monitor and one year of Dell ProSupport all at a cost of $654 for each. Each of the five buildings was specified to have 10 workstations; however each building will have fifteen workstations instead. This way there will be spare systems in case of any potential growth to take place in any of the offices. The spares can also be used as a replacement workstation
The IT department could outsource some activities to reduce some of the workload. They could also centralize some IT decisions to better align IT with the business strategies and provide more support to the affiliates.
The technician must search for the right prescription for customers among the bags, verify customers’ identities, and take any required payments from customers (McAfee, 2006).
Program cost: Hiring someone to manage the network is estimated to cost $15,000 for 1987.