...<Case Study Questions> 1. What is PUE, and why is it an important place to start when considering how to reduce data center power consumption? What value of PUE should data center managers strive for? - PUE is simply defined as “Power Usage Effectiveness”. It measures how efficiently data centers use energy. PUE is an important place to start because it makes Google to measure the change in usage effectiveness. The ratio of PUE is total facility energy over IT equipment energy. A PUE of 1.00 would be best, but 1.09 was the lowest estimated value until 2011 as the video says. Data center managers are still striving for that. PUE = IT Equipment Energy + Facility Overhead Energy / IT Equipment Energy 2. Describe the five methods recommended by Google for reducing power consumption. - Measure PUE As I mentioned in Question 1, the industry uses a ratio called Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) to measure and help reduce the energy used for non-computing functions. To effectively use PUE, it's important to measure often (at least once per second). If the ratio has a 1.00 PUE, it means the energy can be used in the most effective way possible. - Manage airflow Good air flow management is significant to efficient data center operation. By Minimize hot and cold air mixing, Google reduces its power consumption. Google should eliminate hot spots and be sure to use blanking plates (or flat sheets of metal) for any empty slots in the rack. Thermal modeling using computational...
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...Succeeds Career Paths Co-op Opportunities Resources/Links Management Information Systems (MIS) Program Overview Management Information Systems is the merging of the business world with the need for technology to succeed. While technology continues to advance and change, it is only useful in business when developed in the context of how it will be utilized. It does a company no good to bring in the latest software or create new systems if they do not increase productivity and efficiency. This is where the MIS professional comes in. Working closely with people in all aspects of a business, the MIS team will work to create a process that is right for the company’s needs now and in the future. Unlike some technology-focused careers, MIS is a people-centered role and professionals must understand not only the technology that they work with the how to strategically help the people that they work with. Who Succeeds? MIS professionals have a variety of skills and abilities, including: * Proficiency in oral and written communication * The ability to work well as a member of a team * An ability to work with a diverse “clientele” within the organization * Good interpersonal skills * Flexibility * Strong technical skills and the willingness to learn new technologies * Management skills * Strong analytical skills Career Paths MIS does not have a linear career path like other areas of business. Rather, people gain the skills, background...
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...Multiple Choice Questions Checks: Is the answer correct Could any of the wrong options be correct Are there any clues MARKETS | No | Question | Answer | 1 | If the Index Increase what will be the effect on Price(a)Price will Fall(b) Price will Increase(c)Price will Unchanged(d)Price Increase or Decrease | | 2 | The purpose of stock exchange Index are those, EXCEPT(a)Judge the prices they may be able to buy or sell(b)Evaluating Performance about price day by day(c)Monitoring Primary activities of business(d)Get clear idea about price changes in Stock Exchange | | 3 | An increase in the index denotes a) Number of shares traded have increased b) Increase in the number of the companies listed c) Rise in the prices of shares d) Decrease in the number of companies listed | | 4 | Which one of the following is NOT the main function of the stock exchange. a) Enabling buyers to purchase bonds b) Enabling buyers to purchase investments c) Enabling buyers to sell their investments. d) Facilitate trading shares | | 5 | Which one of the following can be a function of Stock exchange a) Raising funds for companies that are listed in the stock exchange b) Act as an advisor to the company on mergers and acquisitions c) Maintain foreign exchange reserves of the company d) Recording the transactions executed on the Stock Exchange | | 6 | Which one of the following would you NOT except to requirement of the IPOs? a) Large enough to attract sufficient...
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...A Blooming Web Business Flowers are a highly perishable product. Most pass their useful commercial life within hours. Therefore, ensuring timely arrangement, packaging, and delivery is of utmost importance for the survival of any florist, let alone one that operates on the Web. 1800Flowers.com, Inc. is the oldest online florist. Jim McCann opened a single flower shop on Long Island in 1976. Within a few years he augmented it into a chain of 14 flower shops in the New York City metropolitan area. In 1986, he acquired the telephone number 1-800-356-9377, which allowed him to advertise the company as 1-800-FLOWERS to receive orders by phone. He registered it as a trademark. In 1995, he acquired the domain name 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, registered it, too, as a trademark, and opened a Web site. The domain name has since become one of the most recognized brands in gift retailing. From its flowers-only beginning, the company expanded into plants, gourmet foods, candies, gift baskets, and other unique gifts, all offered at the Web site. Non-flower products are shipped to customers worldwide. To accommodate flower customers anywhere in the United States, the company created BloomNet®, a network of about 9,000 florists. This network supplements the company’s own 100 stores from coast to coast in the United States. To cast a wider net, the company also operates an affiliate program, enabling any online business that joins it to earn up to 12 percent of sales that originate at that business’...
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...1.)What is PUE, and why is it an important place to start when considering how to reduce data center power consumption? What value of PUE should data center managers strive for? * PUE is power usage effectiveness. This helps reduce the overhead. You want the PUE to get as close to 1.0 as possible and you should measure it as fast as you can, and the more you measure it the more effective it will be. You should incorporate these into your power management centers. 2. Describe the five methods recommended by Google for reducing power consumption. * Measure PUE * Focus on the management of the airflow- used thermal modeling to see what it was doing * Adjust thermostat (increase) * Utilize free cool (temps outside of data centers) * Optimize power distribution * Most are effective within 12 months 3. How much of the world’s global greenhouse gases are the result of computing? List several factors that will tend to retard or accelerate data center power consumption both globally and in the United States. * around 56% worldwide, and only 36% in the United States * This slower growth is thought to be temporary and was due in part to a recessionary environment, and in part to greater efficiencies achieved by the industry. In addition, the growth of cloud computing, streaming of music and video, is expected to accelerate data center growth and power consumption in the next ten years. 4. Where do you suspect that data-center power consumption...
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...Flowers are a highly perishable product. Most pass their useful commercial life within hours. Therefore, ensuring timely arrangement, packaging, and delivery is of utmost importance for the survival of any florist, let alone one that operates on the Web. 1800Flowers.com, Inc. is the oldest online florist. Jim McCann opened a single flower shop on Long Island in 1976. In 1986, he acquired the telephone number 1-800-356-9377, which allowed him to advertise the company as 1-800-FLOWERS. He registered it as a trademark. In 1995, he acquired the domain name 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, registered it, too, as a trademark, and opened a Web site. From its flowers-only beginning, the company expanded into plants, gourmet foods, candies, gift baskets, and other unique gifts, all offered at the Web site. . The Web site is built to accommodate the typical surges in the weeks of Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day. On Valentine’s Day and the 48 hours before the day, the number of transactions increases to 10 times the normal number.Each of the three physical locations maintained by AT&T hosts several servers. Starting in January, the IT staff takes each hosting facility offline for a few days and tests it. The staff simulates a transaction load similar to what it expects on its busiest day, Valentine’s Day, and fixes any problems that emerge. This attention to detail and corporate discipline may be the reason for the company’s success. From a single store in 1976, it has grown to a combination of brickand-...
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...Case Study of Detroit, MI Michael Harker BIO 201-2 Public Health and the Environment Although the city of Detroit, Michigan has been hit by hard times over the last 50 years or so, people and businesses are coming together in order to change the city and its residents. “Detroit has a long and storied 300-year history, but the heart and soul of Detroit is its residents” (City of Detroit, 2013, para.1). In the early to mid-1900’s Detroit used to be known as the auto industry of the world however, because of cheaper labor overseas and in the southern part of the United States thousands of Detroit residents ended up losing their jobs. These auto industry workers were the main income earners for their families but due to the loss of thousands upon thousands of auto industry jobs, entire neighborhoods in Detroit now sit vacant and abandoned. According to Jackson and Sinclair the authors of Designing Healthy Communities, the city of Detroit once had a population of two million people but has been declining over the last 50 years. In 1950 Detroit was the fourth largest city in the United States, however by 1990 the population was down to 1 million people and by 2006 there were only 871,000 residents. (Jackson & Sinclair, 2012). This continued downward spiral of the city’s population has seen many younger and highly skilled people looking to leave Detroit, leaving behind an older generation of city residents who are left to fend for themselves and who require more city services...
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...What are the inputs, processing, and outputs of UPS’s package tracking system? The goal is to have detailed information about the sender, destination and when the package should arrive. Even before the package is picked up, information from the "smart" label is transmitted to one of the UPS computer centers and then sent to the closest center for the destination, they even download it and create the most efficient delivery route. The first thing a UPS driver picks up each day is a handheld computer called a Delivery Information Acquisition Device (DIAD), which they can log into and download the route, it's then uploaded for storage that takes less than a minute and processing and can be accessed worldwide for proof or customer queries. Because of these things what UPS has done is made the delivery as efficient as possible and highly monitored by both them and their customers. Basically storing all different information such as the destination, the time it should arrive as well as the customers information. What technologies are used by UPS? How are these technologies related to UPS’s business strategy? Now the second question asks how the technology relates to their business strategy, and the only thing i could find regarding their business strategy is one quote from 1907 that promised: “The best service and lowest rates.” So with that in mind lets start with the scannable bar-coded label. It attached to a package which we already mentioned contains important...
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...MIS in Your Pocket - Case Study 2 Case Study Questions 1. What kinds of applications are described here? What business functions do they support? How do they improve operational efficiency and decision making? The kinds of applications described in the case study include simple applications such as email, photo-sharing, text-messaging and calendar applications. Moreover, other applications include the Doylestown Hospital's electronic medical records system( delivers information on vital signs, medications, lab results, allergies, nurse's notes etc.) , Doylestown medical reference application, Epocrates Essentials (help interpret lab results and obtain medication information), the ChainLinq mobile application developed by D.W Morgan (updates shipment info, collects signatures and provides GPS tracking on each box it delivers) and the application developed by Timothy Childs to help control chocolate making machines in his business. The use of these applications allow employees to communicate business information and keep up to date with this information more easily than ever before. For example, the MediTech application allows doctors to access medical records with ease, anywhere and anytime, unlike previous paper records that are time consuming. In addition, the Epocrates Essential application allows them to obtain more medical info and understand results better. The applications described in the case study, generally all support key business functions such as promptness;...
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...“ShopKo and Pamida: Systems Triumph or Tragedy?” An Information Systems Case (Laudon & Laudon, 9th Ed. Website) ShopKo, a regional discount merchandise retail chain headquartered in Green Bay, Wisconsin, has about 140 stores in larger Midwestern cities, and 221 Pamida stores serving rural areas in the Midwest, Mountain, and Pacific Northwest regions. ShopKo focuses on popular higher-margin categories such as casual apparel, health and beauty items, and housewares. Sales totaled $3.18 billion for the fiscal year ending in January 2005, and the company was recently acquired by a private company affiliate of Goldner, Hawn, & Morrison Inc. ShopKo has been an intensive user of applications to improve decision making about inventory levels, sales performance, store layout, and selection of merchandise. One of its most powerful tools has been a system to determine prices and timing of apparel markdowns. Traditionally companies that sell apparel have four product cycles a year, one for each of the seasons. However such companies now face serious competition from companies like Gap that now operate on rapidly changing product cycles, often bringing in new product lines every two to four weeks. One of the growing problems ShopKo had to address was what to do with the excess (or overstocked) merchandise when a cycle ends. At the end of a season (or cycle), companies have faced two problems. One is the need to empty its shelves in time for the arrival of the new cycle products (bathing...
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...Bank of America Case Questions: 1. What are the core business processes (high level; major business and financial services) performed at Bank of America as part of its product and service offerings? Core Bank of America Business Process: | Activities within the Core Process | Financial management/banking | * checking accounts * saving accounts * mobile banking | Lending/Borrowing | * mortgages * home loans * car loans * credit/debit cards * refinance | Investment | * life insurance * home/auto insurance * retirement guidance | Financing | * asset based lending * business loans * lines of credit * real estate financing * equipment financing/leasing | 2. List the sequential steps required in a typical ATM transaction, such as drawing out cash or transferring funds from one account to another, and briefly explain why each of these steps is necessary. Use a table to organize your response and do not overlook steps in the process that are performed either by the ATM system or by information systems housed within the Bank’s centralized data center. Steps by Customer | Steps by ATM System | Steps by other Banking Systems | Insert card | Recognize card | | Enter PIN # | Validate PIN # | Send BOA account info | Select Cash Amount | Confirm funds are there | Confirm funds are available for BOA | Pay withdraw fee | Inform customer of withdrawal fee | | Receive Cash | Send out cash | | 3. What does your interactions...
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...Agricultural Extension and Education, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran. Accepted 26 May, 2011 The purpose of the paper is to investigate issues relating to the management information systems of agricultural extension providers in Iran. A survey study was applied as a methodology of research work. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire that addressed evaluating managers’ responses with regard to management information system (MIS) key issues. All issues had mean score greater than five as perceived by managers. This would suggest that most key issues are moderately important in the present time. To delineate more clearly the relationships between the organizational factors and MIS key issues ratings, a descriptive model is currently under development. Future work is to formulate a research model that more precisely describes the relationship between the organization's factors and the MIS key issues rankings across the countries. The organization factors should extend factors covered in the present study to those that are broadly pertinent to the dimensions of the organization's operating environment. To identification of issues of agricultural extension management information system, and how the managers rate the importance of the MIS issues according to organizational factors. The paper advances a clear plan of action for improving the management information system in the area of agricultural extension providers to all...
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...TOPIC: THE IMPROVEMENT OF EFFICENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS AMONG UUM STAFF’S BY USING MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM (MIS) * DV- Efficiency and effectiveness among staff of management in UUM * IV- Management Information System (MIS) Abstract An efficiency of management in university is depends on its staff who worked at different sector and different department. It is because the staff play an important role to the development of an university. The purpose by doing this research is to study the effect of management information system in efficiency and effectiveness of management among UUM staff. In this study, we focused on College of Business staff in UUM. We distributed a questionnaire to 140 sample of staff from total number of population which is 220 that inquired about their satisfaction in doing their worked by using management information system and how the system effect the quality of efficiency and effectiveness among them based on nominal, interval and ordinal scale. According to our result, the uses of management information system effect their efficiency and effectiveness as most of the work they do are based on the system. CHAPTER 1 : INTRODUCTION 1.1 INTRODUCTION OF THE STUDY The information system are consider such as arena which is concerning to provide the information for using it in the organization, and the information and its system have took today dimension well, because its became dealing with it now as a resource from the organization resources...
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...INTRODUCTION: Bangladesh (Mangifera indica L.) belongs to the family Anacardiaceae, is an important and popular fruit of Bangladesh. It has a unique position in respect of nutritional quality, taste, consumer’s preference etc., among the fifty kinds of fruits grown in Bangladesh (Ahmad, 1985). The fruit is believed to have originated in the Eastern India, Asam, Burma or in the Malayan region (Mukherjee, 1997). Mango is now recognized as one of the choicest fruits in the world market for its excellent flavour, attractive color and delicious taste. It has medium calorific and high nutritional values. Carbohydrate content in ripe mango pulp is 16.9% (Salunkhe and Desai, 1984). Besides, mango contains appreciable quantity of provitamin A, vitamin C and soluble sugar (Samad et al., 1975). The unripe fruits contain nearly 50% more vitamin C than the ripe ones and in mineral content, mango holds an average position among fruits and in containing iron, unripe mango is the first and ripe fruit, about the 16th position among all major fruits (Hossain, 1989). The fruit has really of immense value in respect of money and prosperity. In Bangladesh it is called as “King of the fruit”. Due to certain limitations of soil and climate conditions, the mango grows better in some selective areas of Bangladesh. The leading mango growing districts are Nawabgonj, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Dinajpur and Kushtia. It is grown over wide geographical areas particularly in India, Pakistan, Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines...
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...received: 22 Jan 2008 Accepted: 4 Mar 2008 Published: 4 Mar 2008 Critical Care 2008, 12:R36 (doi:10.1186/cc6815) This article is online at: http://ccforum.com/content/12/2/R36 © 2008 Lim et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction To use screening cardiac troponin (cTn) measurements and electrocardiograms (ECGs) to determine the incidence of elevated cTn and of myocardial infarction (MI) in patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU), and to assess whether these findings influence prognosis. This is a prospective screening study. Materials and methods We enrolled consecutive patients admitted to a general medical-surgical ICU over two months. All patients underwent systematic screening with cTn measurements and ECGs on ICU admission, then daily for the first week in ICU,...
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