'Using Technology to Build a Business'

'Times-R-Us (TRU) is a outgrowth brick and mortar retail merchant with oer two hundred American stores. Specializing in seasonal items, they linage their stores from January to mid-February with Valentines gifts; from March to may with Easter and pay natural coverings solar day gifts, from June into the summer with Fathers day gifts and backyard 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 ever in engaged season-with very picture discount gross gross sales following from each one season. TRU currently does non have a significant on business organization sales presence, although it uses the web for client support. TRUs incarnate 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, S an Luis Obispo CA, and Hoffman Estates. The company grossed $475 zillion in sales last course and netted a $40 trillion dollar profit. It is development at a rate of most five percent a yr and opening almost 10 newly stores each year. Payne Indaneck, the CIO, works from the bodied office. individually regional IT round is run by a practiced Director. So in that respect are viii IT centers with the Hoffman Estates operation doing corporate support as well as regional operations. Anita Lotta-Help is the expert Director in Hoffman Estates. You work for Anita.\nThe IT centers are connected by using AT&T as the service supplier (currently leased line T1 from Corporate into the Regionals and SDSL from Regionals into the stores. HQ also has an earnings data link and a separate connection for their web server (also with AT&T, twain T1 speeds). AT&T also provides the section links. The Regionals and stores do not have mesh connectivity except by means of HQ. TRU also u ses RackSpace for offline archival storage. Each of the cc stores is able to attractor into the RackSpace service (t... '