With the increased dependency on critical applications in It what we can believe any retail organization should be looking at to ensure that the  IT (Information Technology) applications are\n-robust\n-supportable\n-scalable and secure
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A robust application is one that continues to operate correctly even under stress placed by environmental factors.\n\nIn the retail industry such factors that place stress on a program are,\n\n1.  Inexperience in operation brought about by unskilled and semi skilled workers using it.\n2.  Environmental factors such as recovery from power fluctuations.\n3.  Destructive behaviour applied to it from such factors as sabotage by an individual and the threat of virus activity in communications.\n\nTo achieve robust operation generally is a three part strategy. The first is thorough implementation of exception handling within the software and recovery to exception. The second is adequate research at the design analysis stage to account for faults and recovery. Finally the third part is to implement the software with a carefully supervised alpha and beta implementation to oversea the program for shortcomings or unexpected problems. \n\n\nThe criteria for robust operation might be to access such factors above against loss of income to the retailer.
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I'm not entirely sure, but I think it's the infrastructure needed to conduct commerce on the web. In particular, you can imagine that there are security and performance issues in being able to validate a large number of credit card transactions for a busy website. Certainly sites like Amazon have to be able to support this in a robust fashion, while safeguarding user credit card information.
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You first have to be familiar with the types of systems being used in the company.  What type of networking system is in place or will be used to "link" the computers?  What database configuration will you be using.\n\nThe "If" "Then" "Else" of a situation analysis must be orchestrated with "all the instruments" involved--and you're not giving us that information.  We need more code!!!  hehehe.\n\nThis website is an example of an IT analysis; however, this EXAMPLE is for structure and form of content.  You will need to determine and research the information relevant to your company's requirements.\n\nhttp://www.career.fsu.edu/documents/technical%20reports/Technical%20Report%2024/Technical%20Report%2024.html
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J2EE is helpful in developing multitire enterprise application. you can go through this link also
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viable reason for breach
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It's very insecure, they need to update that practice. However, you need to consider that An awful lot of the security measures you see in everyday life are \nnot being done by institutions because they are terribly effective, \nbut because they need to be seen to be doing something
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Most of the good software company are having good banking division however retail banking software are not that popular and most of them are in corporate banking. You did not mention from which country you belongs to. For example in India Infosys & iflex have good system and therefore good pay.
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Small business?  IT Manager?  None of the small businesses I know of have an IT Manager.  As a technical consultant, I guess you could say that I act as IT manager for some of my clients.  Probably the biggest issue they face is the learning curve for their applications, because they just need it to work, now, and don't have a lot of time or inclination to sit there and figure it out.  Especially if there are a few employees involved, moving inventory around - those guys have no clue and don't want to be bothered having to sit at a computer.  Something with minimal input required - like bar code readers - would usually be helpful.
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For a large company, the needs of computation and data management and handelling is huge. For this, the best way to go about is professional consultancy. You can also use products made by Oracle, their TPS ( transaction per second rate) is very high
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Working in the IT department, computers are the backbone of our E-business and a major tool for other non-networked small businesses.  \nWe recently have jumped on the Oracle wagon and remodeled our site. Computers are utilized with Web based mail, Purchasing, Receiving, Fiscal Services, Customer Relations and HR at the Enterprise level allowing for more functionality across the board between departments and up/down the department organization ladder.\n\nSee source link below for ideas. Then Google or Yahoo! for articles in your interests.\n\nHope it helps.
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Giving a company great technologies is a lot like giving Army cooks the best ingredients money can buy. It’s not the technology/ingredients, but what is done with them. Billions of dollars are spent every year in this country on technologies that actually make the companies significantly less efficient than they were before the technologies were implemented. Competent, educated, experienced and motivated managers can make a company using a paper system more successful than a company with incompetent, uneducated, inexperienced and/or unmotivated managers can with the greatest technologies available.\n\nFor the sake of this discussion I am addressing large companies with complex products and services. Mom and Pop businesses are a whole different issue and the subject of a different discussion.\n\nThere are several common mistakes made by companies selecting technologies. The biggest is that senior management doesn’t truly understand the business they are in. In this case, the managers within the organization must first educate senior management before any technology can even be considered. In large organizations it is often difficult to reach senior management since they tend to have “gatekeepers” that filter everything reaching them. The really great executives spend a significant percentage of their time “walking around.” They go out into the offices and warehouses. They talk to clerks, customers, janitors and in general the working folks within the organization. There are many examples of this; Wal-Mart is the best. Sam Walton built the largest retail business in the world by understanding his business first and technologies a distant second.\n\nIf technologies are the best answer then why are technology companies some of the least successful in maintaining long term growth. The big technology companies build huge reserves during the introduction of their technologies. There are probably hundreds of stories of fail technology companies. Some big ones off the top of my head are Memorex, STC, CDC, Itel, and even IBM has failed in many respects. They failed for several reasons. Many of them failed from the classic if we build it they will buy it mentality without regard to what their customers wanted. Many of them failed because they made the fatal error of thinking that by implementing the latest technology it would some how save their business. They spent all their time looking at process and internal business technology when they should have been paying attention to their markets.\n\nWell run businesses are always examining their business processes. They are also listening to their customers and examining their competition. They are keeping a sharp eye out for break through technologies without letting their businesses be caught in an endless stream of technology changes for technology’s sake. The technology companies like Oracle and SAP are great at selling “Stone Soup.” That is they tell you their software will do everything and then they provide the proverbial “pot of water with the stone in the bottom.” All their clients have to do is put millions upon millions of software development dollars into the pot to make it soup. The worst aspect of businesses caught in the technology trap is that they take their eye off the ball and that ball is their customers. \n\nI have been in organizations that changed the software running their business so often that they literally melt down from the inside. Good management is more important than good technology.
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Completely trustworthy.\n\nBlessed Be
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it would depend on the type of application, but should include:\n- extracting statistics\n- providing user support upon request\n- operating some ticketing support system\n- provide suggestions for bugs creation and/or application\n- help with regular upgrades and new systems launch
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the best is depended on ones preferences and tastes. their is nothing best. it changes from time to time basing on innovation and implementation of guis
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There is usually another step in the process - product readiness - it's a separate group of people / different dept.  Prevents those crazy QA guys and gals from taking over the world :)
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Information flow is of vital importance in ANY organization.  If the marketing staff focuses exclusively on external communications, any feedback from the market will not be communicated effectively to those internal sources best able to modify products to meet consumer demand.\n\nHope this helps!
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As regards future usefulness it is hard to beat Computing.\n\nBest of luck !