Using Technology to Build a Business

Times-R-Us (TRU) is a growing brick and mortar retailer with oer 200 American stores. Specializing in seasonal items, they stock their stores from January to mid-February with Valentines gifts; from expose to May with Easter and set approximatelys Day gifts, from June into the spend with Fathers Day gifts and backyard leisure items; in August with back to crop items; in October with Halloween costumes; and from November to December with Christmas gifts. By turning over inventory, its microscopic retail stores ar forever in busy season-with real brief discount gross sales following for each one season. TRU before long does not look at a significant online sales presence, although it uses the sack up for customer support. TRUs bodied offices are in Hoffman Estates, IL. It has nightspot regional offices and distribution centers in: Syracuse NY, Greensboro NC, Pensacola FL, Grove City, OH, Bennett, CO, Denton, TX, Portland OR, San Luis Obispo CA, and Hoffman Estates. Th e federation grossed $475 one million million in sales last year and netted a $40 million dollar profit. It is growing at a rate of rough five percent a year and opening about 10 new stores each year. Payne Indaneck, the CIO, snips from the incarnate office. for each one regional IT staff is harmonize by a technical foul Director. So there are eight IT centers with the Hoffman Estates operation doing corporate support as good as regional operations. Anita Lotta-Help is the technical foul Director in Hoffman Estates. You work for Anita.\nThe IT centers are connected by using AT&T as the service provider (currently leased line T1 from bodily into the Regionals and SDSL from Regionals into the stores. HQ also has an net profit connection and a start out connection for their web waiter (also with AT&T, both T1 speeds). AT&T also provides the share links. The Regionals and stores do not have Internet connectivity except finished HQ. TRU also uses RackSpace for offline arch ival storage. individually of the 200 stores is able to force into the RackSpace service (t...