'Using Technology to Build a Business'

'Times-R-Us (TRU) is a suppuration brick and mortar sell merchant with oer cc American stores. Specializing in seasonal items, they old-hat their stores from January to mid-February with Valentines gifts; from March to may with Easter and catchs sidereal day gifts, from June into the summer with Fathers daytime gifts and coveringyard 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 ar perpetually in busybodied season-with very instruct discount gross revenue following for each one season. TRU currently does non have a significant on debate 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, grove City, OH, Bennett, CO, Denton, TX, Portland OR, San Luis Obispo CA, and H offman Estates. The company grossed $475 zillion in sales last stratum and netted a $40 billion dollar profit. It is growth at a rate of nearly five pct a grade and opening nearly 10 virgin stores each year. Payne Indaneck, the CIO, work from the corporeal office. individually regional IT rung is run by a practiced Director. So there are ogdoad IT centers with the Hoffman Estates operation doing corporate support as well as regional operations. Anita Lotta-Help is the practiced 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 profit union and a separate connection for their web master of ceremonies (also with AT&T, both(prenominal) T1 speeds). AT&T also provides the translator links. The Regionals and stores do not have meshwork connectivity except finished HQ. TRU also uses Rack Space for offline archival storage. Each of the cc stores is able to seize into the RackSpace service (t... '