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The Bead Bar is a pseudo business created to teach the concepts of Information Technology.
HLH Consulting was contracted by the Bead Bar to assist in determining information technology needs. The Bead Bar is an arts and design oriented company that enables its customers to design and make their own clothing and accessories with appliqués, beads, strings, and fabrics. There currently exist three divisions in the company spread throughout the United States: seven studios, six franchises, and the Bead Bar on Board which is a portable Bead Bar designed for cruise ships. The Bead Bar has outgrown its paper-based system and is in need of an upgrade in today's technology; the poor efficiency of the Bead Bar's present system limits potential growth opportunities in today's global business market. (Malaga, 2005)

Systems in information technology all for globalization and solve most of the problems prevalent with paper-based systems including lost orders, invoicing errors, and order fulfillment delays. The Bead Bar's information technology needs include the initialization of business website, information sharing between locations, and data confidentiality and security; this means the Bead Bar is in need of a strong networking system which is vital for internal and external communications.

Computers are essential to the daily operations of a growing company such as the Bead Bar with the continuous processing of orders and the various benefits offered to the accounting professionals. As per the recommendations of HLH Consulting, the Bead Bar has made the following purchases: 16 desktop computers, three notebook computers, and two handheld computers. (Malaga, 2005)
All the company's personal computers run on the Microsoft Windows XP Professional operating system, and due to the Bead Bar's multiple locations, the Oracle 9i Database, an enterprise database specifically designed to manage the distributed data necessary for the Bead...