Functional Area Primer

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Functional Area Primer

• IS/Datacom/Telecom
• Timothy Das
• Wennin Chiu
• Heng Gua
• Dianshu Hu
• Andrea Siegman

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• What is petGRO?
• Independent producer of pet foods and pet
  accessories
• petGRO strives to be the best in the pet industry

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• Mission Statement
• To ensure only the freshest and highest quality
  products to its consumers

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• What is IS/Telecom/Datacom and its importance to
  petGRO?
• Management of systems
• Efficient flow of data
• Time Factor

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• Responsibilities
• A watchdog of information flow within the company
• Consultation among other departments
• Security systems
• Telecommunications

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• Existing Systems
• Desktop
• Mostly Windows (95, NT, 2000, XP)
• Some LINUX
• Servers
• Mostly UNIX
• Some Windows

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• Existing Systems
• Workstations
• Some Sun workstations (research)
• Software
• Office packages
• Web browsers
• End-user applications
• Custom software for other FAs

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• Summary
• IS/T/D is responsible for all computer based
  information systems and data communications
  within petGRO
• Maintain software and hardware systems and
  databases
• Ensure efficient flow of data between FAs
• Write and maintain custom software for particular
  FAs
• In charge of security our systems