final reflection

      Final Reflection

                                                Morgan Billings

            Being the tech savvy kind of guy I am I was aware of many of the topics we went over in MIS this year but did not understand them fully. I knew bits and pieces about things we use all the time but not in depth. I enjoyed taking this class this year because I liked the material we covered. I believe technology rules the world and the people who are good at things with technology do well in life.

            The thing I hated this year was excel. But after the excel project I realized it wasn’t as bad as I though. Learning the codes and the easy way to add, subtract, and total information not only saved me a bunch of time but is also more accurate too. I am definitely going to use this when I do projects or when I enter the workforce. Okay, well maybe excel was so bad before because I entered number by number down like a robot but I didn’t know what else to do.

            My favorite thing about the class was reading those articles. I really did find them interesting and knowledgeable; I just didn’t want to write after I read it. My favorite ones were about cyber-crime and the anonymous group. The fact they over threw so many big time companies was pretty cool but at the same time frightening because there are a lot of people who can do it to you and your computer. If you think of the word criminal you think of a gangster or someone messed up, not a computer geek. It’s funny how dependent we are with technology and how much personal information we store in there. The things I learned in MIS about internet safety gave me a new outlook to be more careful.

            I truly enjoyed this class because I liked the material. I think you are a great teacher because you are fair, nice, and have great people skills that get the class engaged. Thank you for a great semester I truly learned a lot and I am very thankful.

Final Assignment

Definitely this class has been interesting.  To be honest I knew a lot of the stuff we talked about coming in but what I enjoyed the most was the Access and Excel projects we did.  By doing those I was able to increase my knowledge more than just knowing the basics.  Especially with access and only using it once or twice it was nice to have someone actually sit down and teach it to me.  Excel I knew a lot about but some of the things we did do were new to me and it just increased my knowledge that much more.  Graduate on Saturday, trying to find a job most place ask about whether or not you have worked with different technology and now I can actually say I have and I'm good at it.

I enojyed this class for the most part and everyone made it entertaining from what it can be.

Samantha Claridge

Homework #9

5 Tech Jobs and What They Pay

This article is written about 5 jobs that deal strictly with technology. I was very interested to learn about them. The 5 jobs are Virtual Concierge, Mobile Application Developer, Online Reputation Management, Online Store Owner and Multimedia Content Producer. They all are very interesting and make me feel like you have to be very intelligent to do any of them. However one sticks out to me the most and that is Online Store Owner.

I think it sticks out the most because we go to business school where we are learning how to run or manage a company; I always assumed that meant a physical place. However, according to this article that company could be 100% online.

I also think that the Online Reputation Management is an interesting job that has potential to a lot of people. It’s almost like being a detective in a way. You are constantly monitoring the Internet making sure someone’s reputation stays clean. If any “dirty laundry” comes out you have to work fast to fix it.

Finally, I like the Application developer because they have the creativity to explore whatever they want and come up with ideas that no one else could. Ideas like twitter and Facebook apps didn’t come from the company; they came from people who thought it would be a cool idea to use these sites on the go. It doesn’t surprise me that Apple is the leading producer of mobile applications, considering they basically run the market for phone apps. 

The best thing about these jobs is how much money you can make from them. They are all at least 50,000 AT LEAST per year. Most being much higher. Playing on a computer all day and getting paid for it? Sounds good to me.

Microsoft AX 2012

The article I choose to talk about today is the article from information weekly and in this article it talks about how Microsoft just released a product called the Dynamics AX 2012 and it is a type of product that many retailers will benefit from very much because not only is it an industry specific version for vendors flagship ERP system that is designed to elimate barriers that many realtors are held back by but it does a lot more like  it eliminates data silos by combining point of sales, inventory, supply chain, and financials into one application but you can customize it to your specific type of business whether it’s a vendor or a big chain store. Another thing it can do is give current economic conditions so then realtors can make it easier for customers to buy whether that’s in store or online or even by mobile device. So basically what this does is it makes it easier to monitor customer buying habits and behavior and have the ability to manage inventory across many channels so then you’re not stuck on one channel to work with. Another thing that this does is it eliminates back end silo problems and provides built in intelligence capabilities that you can then analyze and change what is needed   so then you can sell more to the customers everywhere. http://youtu.be/XQK1sZGkgvg

The AX 2012 for retail multichannel management capabilities ensure that promotions delivered through mobile devices or social channels will be recognized and redeemable through the in store POS system which would be similar to the option of ordering in store and have it shipped or same day pick up from a purchase online. Now I think that this new technology is one of the most innovative and creative and smartest things I have heard of coming out in a while because I think not only will it make shopping less of a nightmare for the customer whether it be online or in the store but I think it will also make it a lot easier for the company to keep up with the demands of their customers because now with this software they can keep track of inventory better but also they can sell more stuff to more people because now they have a much wider customer base. 

Hw 9 IT Salaries

IT Salaries 2012: $90,000, 1% Raise Typical

By Chris Murphy   InformationWeek
April 16, 2012 08:00 AM

As Technology soars through the roof, we realize that the job industry is changing drastically. Those nerdy tech geeks in your high school will be making $$$$$ while were making $$$. Trying making fun of them now! The average IT staff is making about 90k yearly, generally with a 1% raise. Their managers are making roughly 116k with about a 1.8% raise! I now know i should have picked IT instead of Finance!

The people who can blend their business & IT skills are the most successful. A few niche job functions are making a good amount of dough. These jobs being; Wireless infrastructure ($115,000) and Cloud Computing ($110,000) are at top of the medians.

There is however some skills shortages in the industry. Business analytics specialists, basically being statiticians that are "deep into data modeling". these positions are in high demand and will continue to be into the future. With roughly 7000 people in the industry taking a survey, 88% thinks that their job is secure verses the other 12% that think their position is insecure.

Being in this technological industry, there is a lot of pro's and some cons to go with it. It is a constant learning environment, where you either "learn or be left behind". With the constant upgrading and advancement of tech, you have to constantly learn the new things happing in the tech world. So people in the IT work world diversify their skills, which can lead to promotions and even pay increments.

So if you like playing with computers, and want to earn a good salary, this career is for you!

Hw 3

The article I chose to read was "10 security trends to watch in 2012" by Mathew J Schwartz. He goes into detail about how specifically companies are going to keep an eye on the top 10 security trends. The first one he discusses is how business says that breaches are now inevitable. companies such as Verizon say that hacking occurrences are up by a factor of five in a 5 year span. They are now worrying about when they will get hacked rather than if they will get attacked. Another topic he talks a lot about is Mobile devices and how they now have antitheft protection as well with malware on mobile phones. Everyone  has a mobile phone, and the android smartphone run through windows is a easy target to hack. Companies are now trying to put tracking systems into company mobile phones so they are easy to track if lost. Now that almost everyone is on a social network, and with this you can bet that social-engineering is going to occur. More and more hackers are going to try to hack into people accounts on sites, like Facebook and even Twitter. This containing personal information, can really hurt someone if fallen into the wrong hands.
All this talk has gotten me thinking that in a 5 year span, a lot of hacking has increased. Where will it be in 10 years from now? Who's going to create that ultra system to prevent any hacker from using information that isn't theirs? The biggest threat to the world is the hacking of cell phones. Everyone has a cellphone, more and more people are using mobile-pay where you pay your bills from your phone. Checks and the Postal service is outdated, we don't have time for that anymore, and its getting to the point where credit cards are becoming a nuisance. we carry all our information on our mobile phones, use it at the register, they scan our phone it pays it like a credit card payment. This is becoming more and more risky, mobile hackers are increasing a lot which is very scary. As well with social networking increasing as well, hackers are going to be spending all their time trying to hack into accounts. Why not? there are upwards to 800million people now signed on to Facebook, with those numbers, they will have success breaching peoples accounts, gaining knowledge that is private!

Microsoft CRM Embraces iPhone, iPad, Android HW#9

Microsoft CRM Embraces iPhone I pad and Andriod

by Justin DaRosa

Microsoft says they will support the competitor’s mobile platform with service updates of Microsoft CRM application. Microsoft is slowly moving embracing cloud computing services such as Azure and Office 365. The new service will be a cloud based mobile CRM service called Microsoft Dynamics CRM Mobile. It will be available for many mobile users like on the IPhone, Blackberry, android markets as well as the windows 7 phone. “The mobile service will be $30 per user, per month with support for up to three devices per user. The apps will be initially available in 24 markets and 10 languages” the system will support many browsers like Google chrome, Firefox, and Safari running for both PCs, and Mac products.

The second quarter updates will be expected to be coming out sometime in May. Also the upgraded Micro blog and activity social collaborating capabilities introduced in Microsoft Dynamics CRM service update that last came out in November. The next coming upgrades will allow users to be more interactive allowing them to socially like or dislike things so that other people can see and do the same. Possible find common interests, and get other people to try things that you like or stay away from things they people dislike. The posts will also be filtered so that you can find the topics that most interest you. It will allow management to view all posts that the employees post in filtered sections whether the boss follows them or not. This will allow management to see what employees are up too, and see what they think and feed off their ideas for the company.

The new features will help Microsoft beat out other competition by going through multiple platforms to obtain their target audience. “The new Dynamics CRM social features and cross-platform mobile and browser support might help Microsoft step up the competition with Salesforce.com, which remains the largest provider of cloud-delivered CRM applications.” Going multi platform Microsoft hopes to do a lot better than its competitor salesforce.com that receives much more customers than Microsoft now. Late last year Microsoft said it has more than 30,000 Dynamics CRM customers (versus more than 100,000 customers of Salesforce.com). Microsoft's count includes both cloud and on-premises deployments, but the vendor says two out of three new customers are opting for cloud-delivered CRM app.”