Using Technology to Build a Business

Times-R-Us (TRU) is a suppuration brick and mortar retailer with e realwhere 200 American stores. Specializing in seasonal items, they stock their stores from January to mid-February with Valentines gifts; from marching music to May with Easter and get downs Day gifts, from June into the spend with Fathers Day gifts and backyard leisure items; in August with back to schoolhouse items; in October with Halloween costumes; and from November to December with Christmas gifts. By turning over inventory, its subatomic retail stores ar forever and a day in busy season-with very brief discount gross sales following each season. TRU currently does not take a shit a significant online sales presence, although it uses the tissue for customer support. TRUs unified offices are in Hoffman Estates, IL. It has society 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 Hof fman Estates. The family grossed $475 billion in sales last year and gain a $40 million dollar profit. It is growing at a rate of more or less five percent a year and opening somewhat 10 new stores each year. Payne Indaneck, the CIO, operates from the merged office. give awayly regional IT staff is act by a skillful Director. So there are eight IT centers with the Hoffman Estates operation doing corporate support as wellhead as regional operations. Anita Lotta-Help is the technical 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 corporate into the Regionals and SDSL from Regionals into the stores. HQ also has an profit connection and a separate connection for their web master of ceremonies (also with AT&T, both T1 speeds). AT&T also provides the component part links. The Regionals and stores do not have Internet connectivity except by means of HQ. TRU also uses RackSp ace for offline archival storage. individually of the 200 stores is able to hook up with into the RackSpace service (t...