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Your company wants to assure that the developers in its Information Systems (IS) Department are using the latest Microsoft products and features to assure that existing company applications are as powerful as they can be and that developers in the IS department are continually looking ahead to develop new applications and solutions that will strengthen the company’s IS support.

Your company has recently created a task force consisting of one employee from all major corporate departments and five key staff members in the IS Department. The company’s COO has asked the task force to create a 5-year plan for developing and improving the company’s Microsoft applications, products and services. You are Vice Chair of the task force.

You, the Chair of the task force and the VP of Information Systems have met and have agreed that 5 IS-staff members should attend a number of important Microsoft conferences this year and present the key findings from those conferences to the task force. The proposed presentation should give the members of the task force a summary of what can be done currently with Microsoft products and applications and what is projected for the future.

The presentation should also include recommendations of IS projects for your company, based on the information the five attendees have gathered at the conferences and priorities established by the task force.

The first conference you want the five employees to attend is the Microsoft BUILD Conference to be held May 19-21 in Seattle, Washington. Here is the link to the BUILD Conference website.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/build

The Chair of the task force has asked you to draft a memo to the COO explaining the task force’s reasons for recommending these five IS staff members attend the BUILD Conference and asking for approval for these employees to go.