Club IT - Part 1
Club IT is a nightclub that offers different genres of music and a trendy hot spot for people who love to have a great evening out. The owners, Lisa and Ruben, had a vision when they decided to open the club. That vision was to ensure that patrons had a fun place to come to and kick back with a night full of ambience and creativity. The mission for Club IT is to offer live music, DJ’s, dance space and refreshments to suit the lifestyles of the members of the community, and to become a hot spot meeting place where people gather on a regular basis developing new friendships for years to come. (Rainer, Turban: About Club IT) As an intern at Club IT, it is my duty to ensure that Club IT has an information system that is effective and efficient to suit the needs of the owners and employees as well as being user friendly.
The first thing we need to do is establish what type of information system will benefit Club IT. A computer-based information system will definitely be needed so that all activity can be easily tracked and researched. Considering that Club IT is a patron type business, we will need a transaction processing system which will allow us to record sales as they occur. The cash register and credit card machines will be linked to our operating system so that all sales and other business related entries are kept together for accuracy and will coincide with each other for reporting and tracking purposes. In addition to the transaction processing system, we will need a functional area IS, an office automation IS and a management IS. These systems need to all be linked together so that we can keep track such things as payroll, financial reporting and sales. We also need the capability to produce documents/memos, spreadsheets and create databases. The information system that links all of these factors together needs to be user friendly and kept protected. Each employee should have his own login and...