Disaster Recover Plan
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JP Morgan IT system. The agreement stated that IBM would take over tasks from JP Morgan such as hosting computer centres, running help desks, distributing applications, maintainging data and voice networks as well as hosting trading applications for JP M
Contents Content Page Number Front Cover 1 Content 2 Introduction 3 JP Morgan's needs 4 JP Morgan's past system 5 Outsourcing 6 JP Morgan and IBM 7 JP Morgan and Bank One 8 Disadvantages of an Information system 9 Disadvantages of an Information system 10 Types of information systems 11 JP Morgan's IS system 12 Methodology 13 Value Chain 14 Ethics 15 Conclusion 16 Bibliography 17 JP
Research for a secure IT system to manage data for the Old Age Pension system in Tanzania.
CHAPTER ONE .0. INTRODUCTION What is Old Age Pension (Benefit)? Old age pension is the pension given to Member of the Social Security Scheme due to Old Age. Pension is a term expresses all long term benefits offered by the scheme. It defines all principal payments given to a retired or invalid member to replace the income lost due to old age or inability to continue with work and it includes all periodic payments made to dependant of the deceased insured person. .1 BACKGROUND TO THE PROBLEM All peoples throughout all of human history have faced the uncertainties brought on by unemployment, illness, disability, death and old age. In the realm of economics, these inevitable facets of life are said to be threats to one's economic security. For the ancient Greeks economic security took the form of amphorae of olive oil. Olive oil was very nutritious and could be stored for relatively long periods. To provide for themselves in times of need the Greeks stockpiled olive oil and this was their form of economic security. In medieval Europe, the feudal system was the basis of economic security, with the feudal lord responsible for the economic survival of the serfs working on the estate. The feudal lord had economic security as long as there was a steady supply of serfs to work the estate, and the serfs had economic security only so long as they were fit enough to provide their
Organizational Information System
Introduction Super Television Ltd is a constantly growing TV manufacturing company. It has recently entered the international market. That is an important step for the company. As the international market is even more competitive, the company had to find ways to make its performance more efficient and gain a competitive advantage and therefore make more profit. This report will illustrate how Super TV is divided in many departments, and how they work. I shall show how the information flows in the organisation and how these departments interface with each other. I will describe the importance of information systems and its role in integrating new technology and in decision making processes. The report will also include the exploitation of electronic commerce and the consequences of it. Task 1 Super TV is a business, so it is considered to be a human-made system (Elliott 2004, p.49). It is divided into more sub-systems (see appendix 1) and according to the systems theory (Wikipedia 2007) Super TV as a business information system is concerned with the flow of data and information between different departments (sub-systems) throughout the whole organisation. The flow of information between departments is essential for the company to be effective and efficient in its activities. Figure 1 is an illustration of the flow of information in Super TV between its departments, when a
Test Thrice, Launch Once: Arian 5 disaster.
Test Thrice, Launch Once: Arian 5 disaster The Failure On June 4, 1996 an unmanned satellite-deploying rocket Ariane 5 was launched in Kourou at 1233 GMT. After about 40 seconds into the flight, the self-destruct of the space rocket was triggered. This was done in accordance with safety regulations due to the rupture of the links between the boosters and the main core stage of the rocket, caused by a dramatic change in direction that had taken place roughly 3 seconds earlier. The rocket was carrying four satellites that were going to be sent into orbit to monitor the sun. Ariane 5 was the result of a £5 billion launcher development by the ESA (European Space Agency), and the explosion itself destroyed the rocket and its payload, at a total cost of £500 million. The Cause of the Failure The origin of the failure was narrowed down to the Flight Control System, and more particularly, to the Inertial Reference System (SRI). To investigate the cause of the failure the European Space Agency (ESA) appointed an independent board. The following chain of events was established: * First 36 seconds of the flight were normal. * At H0+36.7 active SRI declared an operand error. The reason was a software exception, caused by the data conversion from a 64-bit floating-point number to 16-bit signed integer. That conversion can only be applied to a number less than 216, but was
Operations in a shuttle loom
Operations in a shuttle loom The first operation in a shuttle loom is called shedding. This is where a gap is created in the warp so that the weft can go straight in through the gap. A hield frame is used to shed the warp, which only contains one yarn. So what happens is all the odd number warps would rise above the even number warps so that weft insertion could take place. The gap between the odd and even warps is known as the shed. There are three frames for odd warps and three frames for even warps. The second operation is known as picking which is basically weft insertion. This is where the weft goes through the shed. A shuttle is used for picking which keeps going from one side to the other side of the fabric through the shed. The edge of the fabric is known as the selvedge, which is very strong, which is important so the fabric does not become frayed. There is a bristle inside of the shuttle, which stops the yarn becoming loose. This is important as if the yarn becomes loose it can lead to knots which would slow down the process. The area between the yarn and the fabric is known as cloth fell which is the point of fabric formation. Beat up is the process where the weft gets pushed into the cloth fell. To do this a reed is needed. There are three to four ends in each dent, which are the gaps in each reed. Then what basically happens is that the ends get beat up into
Acceptability of Biometric Security System
Acceptability of Biometric Security System Author: S.M Sarwarul Islam Rizvi Author: Mohammad Sifatullah Bhuiyan Course: Scientific Writing and research methodology Group: 101 Date: 2010-01-07 Table of Contents Abstract 1 Introduction 2 .1 Background 2 .2 Description of the Research area 3 .3 The purpose of the Research and its role within the research area 3 .4 Goal and Audience 3 2 Materials and Methods 4 2.1 Research Question 4 2.2 Literature Review 4 2.3 Observation and Primary Hypothesis 5 2.4 Testing the Hypothesis by real life survey 6 2.4.1 Subjects 6 2.4.2 Measures 6 2.4.3 Procedure 7 3 Result 8 4 Analysis of the results 11 5 Conclusions and discussion 13 5.1 Conclusions 13 5.2 Discussion 13 5.3 Suggestions for future Research 15 6 References 16 Abstract Various systems need to uniquely identify its users and also to verify their identity. Example of such system is secure access in buildings, data centre, personal computers and laptops, mobile phone and ATM machines etc. To accomplish the task, the systems need a method that can be based on 'what the user knows', 'what the user has' or 'what the user is'. Traditional password based authentication system is based on 'what the user knows'. And biometrics authentication system or biometrics is based on 'what the use is'. The main goal of this paper is to find out the acceptability of
Businees Informations Needs
Sampled for Internal Verification IV's Name Date HE ASSIGNMENT FRONT SHEET Programme Title: Higher National Diploma Computing Year One Unit Number/Title: Unit 16 Information Systems Title of Assignment: Assignment 1: Business Information Needs Assignment Internally Verified by: Kelly Pook Date: Tutor Name: Fran MacKenzie Issue Date: 3/10/2008 Submission Date: 0/11/2008 Student Name: Module Criteria Assessed Unit Crit Criteria Assessed Met 6 .1 compare and contrast the different functional areas of an organisation 6 .2 understand the information needs of each functional area 6 .3 analyse the information needs for a given scenario or case study Merit Descriptors Assessed 6 3.1 The appropriate structure and approach has been used You must apply a digital signature to the assignment front sheet to attest that the work is entirely your own unless otherwise stated in the body of the assignment. Failure to do this will invalidate your submission. Statement of Authentication: I declare all work within the submitted assignment to be entirely my own unless otherwise stated and that I fully understand the college disciplinary process for plagiarism. Print Student Signature: George Kennett Date: 0/11/2008 Date Received: Received by: Assignment one- Business Information Needs To be able to compare and contrast the different functional
Visual Basic
Visual Basic Research Report Student Information System (SIS) Table of Contents .History 3 2.Introduction 3 3.What is Visual Basic? 4 4.Why use Visual Basic? 4 5.Importance of Visual Basic 4 6.Components of Visual Basic 4 7.Features of Visual Basic 5 8.Visual Basic and 3-Tier Architecture for SIS 6 9.Features of SIS 7 0.Using VBScript for SIS...................................................................................................8 1.Pros of Visual Basic.......................................................................................................8 2.Cons of Visual Basic......................................................................................................9 3.Conclusion 10 4.Recommendations 11~12 6.Glossary 13 7.Appendix 14~17 8.References 18~19 . History VB 1.0 was introduced in 1991. The drag and drop design for creating the user interface is derived from a prototype form generator developed by Alan Cooper and his company called Tripod. Microsoft contracted with Cooper and his associates to develop Tripod into a programmable form system for Windows 3.0, under the code name Ruby (no relation to the Ruby programming language). Tripod did not include a programming language at all. Microsoft decided to combine Ruby with the Basic language to create Visual Basic. The Ruby interface generator provided the "visual" part of
E-commerce and small Business
4. Write on the impact of IT to date on one of the sectors of the business world or community services, and describe what changes in technology and structure are reasonably likely to take place in the next 5-10 years, indicating the likely effect on customers and society. You may choose any business or community sector . E-commerce and small Business Every business considering a website for e-commerce purposes must develop an underlying strategy. This is critical. After all, just posting a website probably will not draw substantial traffic. The target audience needs to be educated about the existence of the site. Developing a strategy will force you to consider your approach towards the Internet and help set realistic goals. Without quantifiable goals it will be impossible to gauge whether your investment in e-commerce is successful or not. Many businesses attempt to enter the Internet and e-commerce with a huge splash. The result is over-engineered sites that are complex and cumbersome. If the website navigation is complicated or the pages load slowly, the potential customer is likely to become frustrated and abandon your site for happier surfing elsewhere. Therefore, maintain a customer focus and make the site simple. In addition, give the potential customer alternative choices in doing business with you. Some people like to do research on the web but would rather call