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The  Rioridan  Manufacturing  Assignment.         This  document  is  to  provide  you  with  guidance  on  a  few  things  and  to  alleviate  any   confusion  with  the  information  that  you  need  to  be  successful  with  the  Week  1   assignment,  provide  an  overview  of  the  Riordan  Manufacturing  Information   systems.         The  first  part  of  this  Document  is  designed  to  provide  you  with  the  navigation  steps   to  get  to  the  Riordan  Manufacturing  web  page  and  locate  the  descriptions  of  the   information  systems.    The  second  part  of  this  document  provides  you  with   definitions  and  guidance  on  what  you  are  supposed  to  be  looking  at  in  order  to   complete  your  assignment.       Part  I   You  are  being  asked  to  provide  an  overview  of  the  information  systems  of  the   manufacturing  company,  which  means  that  you  need  to  research  this  company.    The   company  itself  is  a  fictitious  company  that  was  created  for  you  by  the  University  for   this  assignment.    You  are  required  to  research  the  company  in  the  links  that  are   provided  and  answer  the  questions  that  are  put  forth  in  the  assignment.    The   navigation  to  the  company  information  is  as  follows.         When  you  navigate  to  the  assignment  for  week  1,  the  web  page  provided  to  you  will   appear  as  depicted  below  in  figure  1Click  on  the  link  under  Student  Materials.    

  Figure  1:  Main  page  for  the  assignment.         Once  you  click  on  the  link,  you  will  be  taken  to  a  page  that  contains  fictitious   organizations  for  many  other  classes  for  UoP.  You  need  to  locate  Riordan   Manufacturing,  which  is  located  under  the  “Businesses”  link  in  the  upper  right  hand   tools  bar,  as  depicted  in  figure  2.    Select  “Businesses”  and  then  “Riordan   Manufacturing”.      

  Figure  2:  Page  with  all  the  businesses  for  UoP  classes.         Selecting  the  correct  organization  from  the  drop  down  list  of  Businesses,  Figure  3.      

  Figure  3.  Drop  down  of  businesses.      

Once  you  select  Riordan  Manufacturing,  you  will  be  taken  to  another  web  page  that   contains  the  information  you  are  looking  for  with  this  assignment,  (Figure  4).  It  is  on   this  page  that  you  have  to  research  the  information  for  each  of  the  business  units  by   navigating  to  each  page  and  reading  the  information.    On  each  page  there  are   descriptions  of  the  information  systems  of  the  company  as  a  hole.      

  Figure  4:  Initial  page  for  Riordan  Manufacturing.    In  the  upper  right  hand  corner   there  are  two  links  that  will  give  you  more  information  about  the  company.       Figure  4  shows  you  the  initial  page  for  Riordan  Manufacturing;  the  upper  right  hand   corner  has  two  links,  Intranet  and  Internet.    Intranet  is  the  internal  network,  select   this  link  to  find  information  about  the  information  systems  of  each  business  unit.     Once  you  select  the  “Intranet”  link,  you  will  be  supplied  with  the  image  shown  in   Figure  5.    

  Figure  5:  Intranet  page  for  the  company,  links  on  the  top  bar  provide  you  with  the   information  for  each  business  unit  including  their  information  system  descriptions.       Additional  information  is  located  directly  under  the  Information  systems  link,  that   will  provide  technical  diagrams  of  the  networks.    Figure  6  shows  you  what  this   information  looks  like,  and  can  be  used  to  help  you  understand  the  descriptions  of   the  technologies.        

  Figure  7:  Network  diagram  of  the  fictitious  company.         Part  II     You  are  being  asked  to  provide  an  overview  of  the  information  systems  for  the   company.    An  information  system  in  this  case  is  a  fairly  broad  topic,  but  for  our   purposes  it  is  defined  as:  “tools  for  storing,  managing,  using  and  gathering  of  data   and  communications  in  an  organization.”    The  Riordan  web  page      has  links  across   the  top  of  the  page,  figure  8.        

  Figure  8:  Links  to  the  business  units.     Each  of  the  business  units  has  an  overview  that  discusses  their  information  systems,   but  the  “Information  System”  link  provides  you  with  an  overview  of  the  network   diagrams.    Under  the  Information  Systems  page,  there  are  pictures  that  show  the   servers  and  other  network  appliances  that  make  up  the  network  of  Riordan,  figure   9.    

  Figure  9:  Overview  of  the  San  Jose  Network.         Identifying  the  information  systems  will  require  you  to  conduct  some  research  on   what  an  information  system  is,  how  they  are  used,  etc.    In  this  case,  looking  at  Figure   9,  there  are  several,  that  you  would  need  to  research  to  determine  what  they  do,   what  would  happen  if  they  stopped  working  and  the  other  questions  that  are  being   asked  of  you  in  the  assignment  details.    For  instance,  in  the  above  diagram  the  Win   Exchange  Server  is  an  email  server  for  the  organization.    Under  each  of  the  business   units  there  is  similar  information  that  you  have  to  review.    Your  assignment  is  to   review  the  information  systems,  provide  an  overview,  choose  one,  and  answer  the   other  questions  about  that  information  system.       I  hope  that  this  helps  you.