Essays and Research Papers on Hardware, Software & Industry

This three page paper considers how the results of the analysis of people, activities, context and technology has influenced the way a platform game should allow an avatar to collect a variety of items and interact with whilst the game player needs to be aware of the status of the game. The paper considers the ...

A 10 page paper examining hardware and protocol that Primus Securities, a fictional online trader, might need to support its site and its operation. The paper discusses the network, network protocol, network components and client/server considerations of the physical infrastructure. It also discusses changes in web development, J2EE and Microsoft.NET. Bibliography lists ...

A 7 page paper discussing site design and ease of use by customers in an e-commerce environment. The paper uses the site of http://www.cocostore.biz/ for evaluation of the site and recommendations for improvement. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 5 page discussion of the marketing potential presented by this online gaming opportunity. The author contends that this potential lies in the XBox features that allows players to remove themselves from their real-life worlds. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

An 11 page paper answering 9 questions about systems integration. Questions address topics such as defining systems integration and systems engineering; life cycle models; the need for planning; and the nature and benefits of a requirements statement. Bibliography lists 11 sources.

This 3 page paper describes, analyses and explains the behaviour of consumers buying and/or using Microsoft's Xbox with its' online gaming facilities and the motivation of the buyers and users and as well as the development of bonds between them due to a common brand consumption, The bibliography cites 4 sources.

A 12 page paper discussing building an e-commerce application based on software factories. The standard method of software development is one that, compared to other business functions that demand speed, efficiency and value instead delivers slipped schedules, high cost and often poor quality. The use of software factories can greatly shorten development time, ...

This 5 page paper compares the information technology and telecommunications industries and their growth in China and Ireland. The paper looks at the development, size and pattern of growth in both countries and identified similarities and differences. The bibliography cites 5 sources.

This 3 page paper addresses the subject of systems security by looking at hardware. How hardware may be affected by viruses and how hardware helps to prevent them is the subject of this inquiry. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 3 page paper discussing the design of a network that does not need Internet access. The company should consider establishing a thin client, three-tier client/server system relying on servers networked within a TCP/IP environment. The information that needs to be shared across the business can reside on servers to which everyone can ...

A 3 page paper addressing achieving appropriate service levels. Review of plans for expansion of the current network needs to include special attention to several areas of operation. Specifically, the group needs to ensure it establishes sustainable and appropriate service levels in the areas of availability, reliability, response time and throughput. Bibliography ...

This 3 page paper discusses the pros and cons of Windows XP and Microsoft Word. Bibliography lists 1 source.

This 3 page paper reviews an article published on the internet as a sales document to inform non technically minded people of potential benefit they could realise using a virtual private network. The bibliography cites 1 source.

This 4 page paper explains what is meant by Decision Support Systems (DSS) as well as why and how they are used. Examples of systems are given to illustrate the facts presented.

This 4-page paper offers an analysis (advantages and disadvantages) of Windows XP (operating system) and Microsoft Word (word processing software). Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 19 page paper (not including the table of contents) is a report that considers who a new information system may be designed for a fictitious company. The paper looks at how the employees and the system may interact and how the hardware and the software should be designed. The bibliography cites 23 sources.

This 11 page paper answers questions set by the student about systems integration. The paper consider issues such how systems integration may add value or cause disruption, the different sorts of decision support systems, web enabling a capacity database server, when a contract may not be worth taking on and other related issues. The bibliography ...

A 4 page report to a manager explaining why it is in the company's best interests to supply antivirus software to employees to use on their home and laptop computers. Even the most careful of employees can gain a virus from time to time, particularly a new one of which they may not be ...

A 5 page paper discussing several of the items that distinguished Dell from its competitors in the high-growth era of the mid- and late-1990s. Dell correctly identified time as being the customer's primary interest, and developed its e-commerce business model based on that premise. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 3 page paper why software developers release security patches and reports a few of the security patches released by Microsoft over the last few years and the vulnerabilities they protected the user from. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

A 5 page paper discussing the disaster recovery plan of this independent financial planner and investment broker. With 180 locations and more than 900 registered representatives, GunnAllen Financial is not a small business in terms of revenue. It is in terms of the size of each location and responsibility for contingency planning, however. ...

A 5 page continuation of KSitInfoSysChng.rtf. After establishing the needs of users of DEF Corporation's IT system, ABC Consultants are ready to propose changes to the current system. The purpose here is to discuss application architecture. The decisions leading to the final form of application architecture should be straightforward, providing (1) the ...

The purpose of this 24 paper is to consider when it is best to replace a legacy system and when it is best to retain and maintain it with updates or the use of migration. The is undertaken with the use of an extensive literature review which considers the technology but is written from a ...

A 3 page paper listing items of regular vehicle maintenance as an exercise for a beginning database project. Items of maintenance are listed according to when they should be done, rather than leading with what should be done. Users can check for what needs to be done annually or at every 100,000 miles. ...

This 8 page paper considers the setting up of a distributed system, using a database, the World Wide Web and JSP technology. The paper looks at other applications that have used this type of architecture along with the advantages and disadvantages of this format and the way that some of the problems may be overcome. ...