...Capstone Project Cover Sheet Capstone Proposal Project Name: Upgrading from XP to Windows 7 is important for Security Student Name: Matthew Phelps Degree Program: Security Emphasis Mentor Name: Julianne Evans Table of Contents Capstone Proposal Summary 3 Review of Other Work 7 Project Rationale 10 Systems Analysis and Methodology 10 Goals and Objectives 14 Project Deliverables 21 Project Plan and Timelines 24 Project Development 25 Conclusion 29 References 31 Competency Matrix 32 Project Timeline 34 Additional Deliverables 35 Capstone Report Summary The entire world is becoming increasingly more reliant on data determined technology. Industries cannot ignore the inevitability of a reliable Information Technology network to be successful and to remain competitive with other corporations. Most companies obviously tend to ignore the necessity of maintaining efficient Operating Systems in their networks; the consequences can lead to amplified employee hindrance, diminished customer contentment and eventually reduced revenue. This capstone project emphasis is on a company facing those very problems. Providence Health Services is a large company that operates multiple hospitals across five states, with its headquarters located in Renton, Washington. The health system includes 27 hospitals, more than 35 non-acute facilities...
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...This material includes a number of texts, journals and research papers as well as additional information sourced from the Web. As drawn from the literature, the subject areas covered include; history and background to modern biometrics; technological, social, organisational and environmental influences; key technologies in the market today; design issues, including security, performance and testing. In chapter 3, attention turns to requirements analysis for the development of a fingerprint recognition system. The process follows a requirements engineering approach to development by formally establishing user requirements and allowing continuous requirements assessment throughout the project life-cycle. The design approach and methodology used to model the problem are also addressed here. Chapter 4 deals with high level design issues such as requirements engineering in the solution domain; assessment and selection of technology options; project management, implementation strategy and evaluation of user requirements. Acknowledgements Abstract i Acknowledgements ii 1. Project Introduction 1 1.1 A Brief History of Biometrics 1...
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... This material includes a number of texts, journals and research papers as well as additional information sourced from the Web. As drawn from the literature, the subject areas covered include; history and background to modern biometrics; technological, social, organisational and environmental influences; key technologies in the market today; design issues, including security, performance and testing. In chapter 3, attention turns to requirements analysis for the development of a fingerprint recognition system. The process follows a requirements engineering approach to development by formally establishing user requirements and allowing continuous requirements assessment throughout the project life-cycle. The design approach and methodology used to model the problem are also addressed here. Chapter 4 deals with high level design issues such as requirements engineering in the solution domain; assessment and selection of technology options; project management and implementation strategy and evaluation of user requirements. Acknowledgements...
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...literatures are more focused on core cloud computing service model being deployed and deployment model followed by the cloud service providers. Additionally anticipated and achieved benefits, challenges and growing deployment trend are also analyzed. Methodology This literature review surveyed existing literature available on the database using systematic approach. Each literature is taken from the CEO magazine, Australian computer society and UWS library catalogue and few literatures from Google scholar. For the timely updated information we limited our literature and taken only published journal article after 2005, because cloud computing is come into mainstream practice from that year. Briefly abstract and title of the papers was studied peer-reviewed journal articles are chosen. Cloud computing model All these literature categorize entire cloud computing in three major service models. * Software as a service, SaaS model In this model, application and functional services are designed to be hosted online and delivered via typical web browser. Users don’t have to have a physical copy of the software installed on their machine, eg. Gmail docs, Gmail, Dropbox etc. * Platform as a service, PaaS model Unlike the SaaS model, this model provides the software platform to its users instead of only standalone software. Different development tools for easier development and deployment are provided online. Users have application level access to the platform and they don’t...
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... The medal is awarded to individuals that demonstrate an outstanding use of unique or creative applications of statistical techniques in the solving problems related to the quality of a product or service[ii]. The nomination forms for the first Shainin Medal were presented at the Annual Quality Congress (AQC) in Toronto May 24-26, 2004. Since then the nomination forms had been available online at the American Society of Quality website and forms must be submitted by October first in order to be nominated[iii]. The Dorian Shainin Medal is presented annually to members in our society for their contribution by solving design problem of a product or service through their creation development and promotion of quality function deployment as a methodology to relate customer needs with business requirements and technical capabilities[iv]. The award program was created by the American Society of Quality which is a global community of experts and leading authority on quality in all fields, organizations and industries. The American Society is well known and appreciated worldwide with 85,000 members who are lead by their responsibilities to improve their live by improving their workplaces. Moreover, they implement quality tools and techniques in their daily tasks. The American Society of Quality is the sole administrator of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program Award since 1991. By celebrating its 25th anniversary at the World Conference on Quality and Improvement in 2010...
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...Quality Function Deployment of Custom Orientation Stabilization Integrated Systems September 23, 2012 Scott Jaster ENM5100 Quality Engineering Florida Institute of Technology ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to present a description of the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) process with respect to the development of an alternative means of multi-axis orientation stabilization. The intention is to discuss the quality control process of choosing the "best" components for the system, and meeting customer requirements before, during, and after product delivery. There will be an exploration of the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) process that pertains to the systems integration design, manufacture, and delivery process, from the user’s ultimate perspective. The interactions of the various components must be defined by the desired specifications, modeled, and analyzed to produce the optimal setup that meets the respective performance requirements of the user, while following along with the QFD process strategy. The focus will be on the House Of Quality (HOQ), described within. A related discussion will be the determination of the viability and functionality of designing a system capable of efficiently counteracting axial orientation wobbling; but this is the byproduct of the properly employed functional Quality process. Ultimately, the discussed Quality process allows the user to efficiently and subjectively determine the best engineering trade-offs related...
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...Industry: A Hotel Case Study Kioumars Paryani, Lawrence TechnoLogicaL UniversiTy ali masoudi, azad UniversiTy, soUTh Branch of Tehran ElizabEth a. CudnEy, MissoUri UniversiTy of science and TechnoLogy © 2010, asQ Quality function deployment (QFD) is a methodology for capturing and translating the voice of the customer (VOC) into engineering characteristics of products or services. In addition, the process prioritizes and deploys these customer-driven characteristics throughout the product or service development to meet the VOC (that is, customer needs, wants, and expectations). QFD determines effective development targets for the prioritized product and service characteristics. The QFD process has been used and documented extensively in product development. The service industry, however, lacks in the application of this process. The purpose of this paper is to show practitioners and researchers how this process, in its entirety, can be used as a planning process to link customer requirements and service characteristics in the hospitality industry. A case study was developed focusing on a specific hotel to illustrate the application of the QFD process in a five-star hotel. Key words: four-phase QFD, hospitality industry, quality function deployment, service, SERVQUAL, total quality management INTRODUCTION The service industry exhibits distinct features that are not shared in the manufacturing industry. Many service organizations are profit-earning business enterprises such...
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...Diagram 3-5: Type Three - Near-future Model of the New Style of Japanese Corporate Management Image of Global Exposure Less than 20% of sales are made in Japan, while markets in emerging countries are expanding. Ratio of employees with foreign nationality is more than half and all functions are being multi-nationalized. Sales companies: Localization is further promoted but also integration with service deposits is facilitated. In order to focus on maintenance and service business in the future, these bases and technologies are developed by the company itself. Factories: More globalized division of labor is promoted. Corporation with factories in Japan is also enhanced. R&D: They have a history of more than ten years. Research and development are divided. Japan is responsible for application research, and basic research is optimally deployed. (By intensively supplying manpower and money to ventures and research bases for cutting-edge technologies mostly in the U.S. and maintaining the sensitivity of the antenna at a higher level, access to world-class intellects is enhanced.) Japan still plays the central role with its ability for concurrent development, and development unique to each location is conducted locally. Global headquarters (Japan) is specialized in coordination among functional regional headquarters and global control. Only some parts of it employ bilingualism. At the same time, regional headquarters in Japan is also established. Leaders are frequently exchanged...
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...Internet DMZ Equipment Policy 1.0 Purpose The purpose of this policy is to define standards to be met by all equipment owned and/or operated by Richman Investments located outside Richman Investment's corporate Internet firewalls. These standards are designed to minimize the potential exposure to Richman Investment from the loss of sensitive or company confidential data, intellectual property, damage to public image etc., which may follow from unauthorized use of Richman Investment resources. Devices that are Internet facing and outside the Richman Investment firewall are considered part of the "de-militarized zone" (DMZ) and are subject to this policy. These devices (network and host) are particularly vulnerable to attack from the Internet since they reside outside the corporate firewalls. The policy defines the following standards: * Ownership responsibility * Secure configuration requirements * Operational requirements * Change control requirement 2.0 Scope All equipment or devices deployed in a DMZ owned and/or operated by Richman Investment (including hosts, routers, switches, etc.) and/or registered in any Domain Name System (DNS) domain owned by Richman Investment, must follow this policy. This policy also covers any host device outsourced or hosted at external/third-party service providers, if that equipment resides in the "RichmanInvestment.com" domain or appears to be owned by Richman Investment. All new...
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...law enforcement agencies to reintroduce the Community Policing Program into their communities. Discussion During the mid-1980 s to the mid-1990s law enforcement agencies throughout the nation were struggling with high crime rates, therefore, they looked for new ways to combat such epidemic. Community policing became the “buzz-word” among the law enforcement forces. One of such tactics was the deployment of Community Oriented Policing (COP) Model that is attributed with significantly changing the way local law enforcement relates to the communities in which they serve Moreover, the new concept replaced terms such as police-community relations, team policing, and problem oriented...
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...Service (IaaS): 5 Deployment Model of cloud computing 5 Public Cloud: 5 Private Cloud: 6 Community Cloud: 6 Hybrid Cloud: 6 Challenges of cloud computing 7 Benefits 7 Implementation Plan 9 How Does Data Stay Safe in the Cloud? 9 Are your applications ready to run on cloud? 9 Will you able to receive customer support for the service? 10 Client considerations for Best Practices during Implementation and Deployment 10 Implementation Strategy 10 Cloud architecture: 10 Market Analysis 11 Important Questions to be address by management 11 Implementation Cycle 12 References (Author, Year) 14 Cloud computing Introduction Whenever technology changed or company move to new business plan, it costs them and many of these companies cannot afford in current economic environment. And most of the time all the investments are not useful at the same time. They wish to “pay for what they use” services and use their efforts and money in main business to add value to it. So these challenges and expectations cause the born of cloud computing.Cloud Computing provides a simple, economicaland efficient way to access servers, storage, databases and a broad set of application services over the Internet.Organizations may increase business concentration which means that companies can focus on their core business and outsource their technology and IT infrastructure to the cloud provider. Thomson Reuters and Aflac Inc and many more has done the same. Following image is explaining how computing...
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...Nike I2 ERP Implementation Failure Case Study February 9, 2014 Shafer Minnick Morgan Correll Jeff Harvey Nike stands as the World’s leading producer of Athletic Footwear, Apparel and Equipment. As of 2013 they held complete ownership or joint venture in the following companies: Nike Brand Cole Haan Converse Hurley International Umbro Athletic Wear Nike Golf Jordan Brand This is a rather long and somewhat surprising list to many, based on some of these brands are portrayed as competitors in the daily consumer market. Nike products are sold in over 170 countries worldwide through their network of 700 retails stores. They have 38,00 Nike employees worldwide, based in those retail store, or one of 65 administrative offices or 10 plus Sales Offices or showrooms worldwide. Nike products are manufactured through a contract manufacturing partnership consisting of 900 contract plants worldwide using over 1 million contract employees. These same plants are managed by their local ownership, but Nike spends significant time and money coaching these plants in the Nike sustainable manufacturing plan. The Nike Strategy The Nike Business strategy focuses on Innovation. First the “Innovation to Serve the Athlete”-meaning they desire to design and produce the best products for athlete safety and performance. They want to be the leaders in new and improved products to advance athletic performance. Secondly, “Innovation to Grow the Company”- Nike wants...
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...Total Productive Maintenance Made by: Khaled Elsayed Hamed Supervised by: dr.Mousa Abstract Total productive maintenance (TPM) is a concept applied to improve the overall equipment efficiency (OEE) and the capabilities and skills of the workers in the plant. It is founded on eight pillars to support the concept And achieve three goals. Japan institute of plan maintenance (JIPM) is the leading body of TPM. The history of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) TPM has been developed from the original PM (preventive maintenance or productive maintenance) concept and methodology introduced from the USA. It has been further developed and implemented in many Japanese companies, and is now rapidly becoming a method applied worldwide. In 1971, Nippon Denso Co., Ltd. first introduced and successfully implemented TPM in Japan. They won the Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance (JIPM) PM Excellent Plant Award for their activities. This was the beginning of TPM in Japan. Since then, TPM has spread progressively throughout the world and established itself as a renowned cultural improvement programme The first example of TPM used in Europe to deliver world class performance was by Volvo in Ghent, Belgium, who won the PM prize for their work in the paint shop. This was quickly followed in the early 1990s by other European automotive companies trying to close the productivity and quality gap to their Japanese competitors. Since the JIPM TPM awards were founded, over 3000 organizations...
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...CLOUD COMPUTING NAME: INSTITUTION: Question 1. What is the most appropriate Cloud Deployment model (or combination) for BPI (Public, Private, Community, or Hybrid)? One of the main things that we need to understand in the process of selecting the appropriate cloud development model for BPI is to understand what cloud deployment is all about. Cloud has been used for a while now and as business and security comes, it is predicted to be rising faster as years come by. The ubiquitous term cloud refers to anything that is being delivered today through the internet and in simple terms, cloud is where one can rent technology and information services on the internet through the providers. Most companies are today turning their focus on leveraging the cloud so as to cut down their capital expenditure and this is the same case with BPI which is looking for a better way to control its operating cost, therefore there is a high need for BPI to seek cloud adoption. It is vital to understand that cloud sometimes come with security risks for the IT department, which can turn out to be severely expensive for BPI to deal with, based on the current financial stress that the company is experiencing. Therefore, it is very vital for BPI to understand its requirements as it opts to a deployment model that is available on cloud. There are four different types of deployment models and these are: the private cloud, the public cloud, the hybrid cloud and the community cloud. BPI is a multinational company...
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...The Necessity of Information Assurance Adam Smith Student ID: Western Governors University The Necessity of Information Assurance 2 Table of Contents Abstract ........................................................................................................................................... 5 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 6 Project Scope .............................................................................................................................. 6 Defense of the Solution ............................................................................................................... 6 Methodology Justification .......................................................................................................... 6 Explanation of the Organization of the Capstone Report ........................................................... 7 Security Defined ............................................................................................................................. 8 Systems and Process Audit ............................................................................................................. 9 Company Background ................................................................................................................ 9 Audit Details .......................................................................
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