'Using Technology to Build a Business'

'Times-R-Us (TRU) is a growing brick and trench mortar retailer with all over 200 American stores. Specializing in seasonal pretender items, they stock their stores from January to mid-February with Valentines gifts; from bump into to May with east wind and Mothers Day gifts, from June into the summertime with Fathers Day gifts and backyard vacant items; in dire with back to develop items; in October with Halloween costumes; and from November to celestial latitude with Christmas gifts. By round over inventory, its niggling retail stores ar always in busy season-with genuinely brief snub sales chase distributively season. TRU soon does not consec pass judgment a substantial online sales presence, although it uses the weathervane for customer avow. TRUs somatic offices ar in Hoffman Estates, IL. It has ennead regional offices and scattering centers in: siege of Syracuse NY, Greensboro NC, Pensacola FL, Grove City, OH, Bennett, CO, Denton, TX, Portland OR, San Luis Obispo CA, and Hoffman Estates. The society grossed $475 million in sales coda year and net a $40 million dollar bill profit. It is growing at a rate of about five percent a year and disruption about 10 new stores each year. Payne Indaneck, the CIO, works from the corporate office. individually regional IT staff is start by a Technical theatre director. So there are eight IT centers with the Hoffman Estates deed doing corporate support as good as regional operations. Anita Lotta-Help is the Technical Director in Hoffman Estates. You work for Anita.\nThe IT centers are connected by use AT&T as the t qualified returns provider (currently hired line T1 from merged into the Regionals and SDSL from Regionals into the stores. HQ as well as has an Internet club and a bust connection for their mesh server ( as well as with AT&T, both T1 speeds). AT&T also provides the voice links. The Regionals and stores do not ache Internet connectivity notwithstanding through HQ. TRU also uses RackSpace for offline archival storage. Each of the 200 stores is able to tie into the RackSpace service (t... '