'Using Technology to Build a Business'

'Times-R-Us (TRU) is a growing brick and mortar seller with all over cc American stores. Specializing in seasonal items, they get out of work their stores from January to mid-February with Valentines gifts; from March to may with Easter and puzzles daytime gifts, from June into the summer with Fathers daytime gifts and plump foryard leisure items; in August with back to school items; in October with Halloween costumes; and from November to December with Christmas gifts. By turning over inventory, its small retail stores argon forever in meddling season-with very apprize discount gross revenue following individually season. TRU currently does non have a significant online gross sales presence, although it uses the web for node support. TRUs unified offices are in Hoffman Estates, IL. It has nine regional offices and distribution centers in: Syracuse NY, Greensboro NC, Pensacola FL, woodlet City, OH, Bennett, CO, Denton, TX, Portland OR, San Luis Obispo CA, and Hoff man Estates. The company grossed $475 one one million million million million in sales last category and netted a $40 million dollar profit. It is growing at a rate of close to five percentage a course and opening more or less 10 crude stores each year. Payne Indaneck, the CIO, whole caboodle from the integrated office. individually regional IT staff is run by a expert Director. So in that location are eight-spot IT centers with the Hoffman Estates operation doing corporate support as well as regional operations. Anita Lotta-Help is the proficient Director in Hoffman Estates. You work for Anita.\nThe IT centers are connected by using AT&T as the service provider (currently leased line T1 from Corporate into the Regionals and SDSL from Regionals into the stores. HQ also has an meshwork association and a separate connection for their web innkeeper (also with AT&T, two T1 speeds). AT&T also provides the illustration links. The Regionals and stores do not have profi t connectivity except through with(predicate) HQ. TRU also uses RackSpace for offline archival storage. Each of the cc stores is able to linkup into the RackSpace service (t... '