Computerized databases - ICT project

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Chikay Lo IOAAJ

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My father is the manager of a catering service in Leeds. This means that he and his employees organize food, entertainment and decorations etc for different events e.g. banquets and weddings. He assists in all aspects of planning the event including:

:: Menus to Suit All Tastes & Budgets 
::
Professional & Courteous Waiting Staff 
:: Hire of China, Glassware, Cutlery & Linen 
:: Champagnes, Wines, Cocktails & Ice 
:: Assistance with Flowers & Arrangements 
:: Specialize in Office Catering for Small to Medium-sized Companies.

His company can also assist with lighting, photo/video production, musical entertainment and invitation design and printing.

This means that he has lots of records of different information to keep e.g. different business's or customer's information.

At the moment all these records are kept in books but because these they are kept in books everything has to be done manually. For example if he wanted to look for all the customers with an event happening in a particular month he would have to look through every record then make a note of all those customers. But there are many disadvantages to this. So I would like to create an easy-to-use system that will help my dad find, sort and change information more quickly and efficiently.

Problem l

My father wants to look up some details on a particular customer so he has to go through each record in the records book as he doesn't know whereabouts the record of this particular customer is in the book because the book is in no specific order. The records are written into the book in order of when it is received. Looking for the record can take a long time and it can be quite difficult to look for the record because of the numerous amount of information he has.

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Problem 2

My father wants to send a letter of warning to all those who have not paid their payments by their payment deadline. If he did this using his present method of search he again would have to go through all the records looking at every single payment deadline in each record. Making a note of all those who have not paid. He would then place the detail of those customers in a template letter which he had typed out before. Again looking for the information is tedious and takes a long time.

Problem 3

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