Question: Please explain step-by-step how to organize this and how to perform calculations. Suppose you have just been appointed manager of a help desk with an

Please explain step-by-step how to organize this and how to perform calculations.

Suppose you have just been appointed manager of a help desk with an IS department. You have been there for just a week, and you are amazed to find only limited data to help you manage your employees. In fact, the only data kept con-cerns the processing of particular issues, called Tickets. The following data are kept: Ticket#, Date_Submitted, Date_Opened, Date_Closed, Type (new or repeat), Reporting_ Employee_Name, Reporting_Employee_Division, Technician_Name_Problem_System, and Problem_Description. You can find sample Ticket data in the Excel file Ch11Ex01_U11e.xlsx.

As a manager, you need information that will help you manage. Specifically, you need information that will help you learn who are your best-and worst-performing technicians, how different systems compare in terms of number of problems reported and the time required to fix those problems, how different divisions compare in terms of problems reported and the time required to fix them, which technicians are the best and worst at solving problems with particular systems, and which technicians are best and worst at solving problems from particular divisions.

a. Use Access, Excel, or a combination of the two to produce the information you need using the data in the Excel file Ch11Ex01_U11e.xlsx. In your answer, you may use queries, formulas, reports, forms, graphs, pivot tables, pivot charts, or any other type of Access or Excel display. Choose the best display for the type of information you are producing.

b. Explain how you would use these different types of information to manage your department.

Ticket # Date_Submitted Date_Opened Date_Closed Type Reporting_Employee_Name Reporting_Employee_Division Technician_Name Problem_System Problem_Description
1 11/1/2018 11/1/2018 11/3/2018 New Dency Jenkins Wagons & Carts Rob Owens Production Scheduling Network Fault
2 11/2/2018 11/3/2018 11/6/2018 Repeat Nick Lyons Dolls & Action Figures Dennis Rivers Accounts Payable Master Update Error
3 11/5/2018 11/6/2018 11/7/2018 New Robert Michaels Robotic Toys Rob Owens Order Entry Log-in Error
4 11/5/2018 11/6/2018 11/10/2018 New Randy Immons Sleds & Toboggans Anita Jenkins Sales Quota Computation Reporting Error
5 11/11/2018 11/12/2018 11/14/2018 Repeat Dency Jenkins Wagons & Carts Rob Owens Production Scheduling Network Fault
6 11/13/2018 11/14/2018 11/16/2018 New Molly Tanner Dolls & Action Figures Anita Jenkins Customer Service Database Access Error
7 11/14/2018 11/17/2018 11/18/2018 Repeat Dency Jenkins Wagons & Carts Rob Owens Production Scheduling Network Fault
8 11/20/2018 11/20/2018 11/21/2018 New Rich Miller Robotic Toys Dennis Rivers Payroll Reporting Error
9 11/21/2018 11/23/2018 11/24/2018 New Nick Lyons Dolls & Action Figures Dennis Rivers Budgeting Master Update Error
10 11/21/2018 11/22/2018 11/25/2018 Repeat Molly Tanner Dolls & Action Figures Anita Jenkins Customer Service Database Access Error
11 11/24/2018 11/25/2018 11/28/2018 New Randy Immons Sleds & Toboggans Rob Owens Sales Quota Computation Log-in Error
12 11/25/2018 11/25/2018 11/27/2018 New Glenda Abbot Wagons & Carts Dennis Rivers HR Forecasting Reporting Error
13 11/26/2018 11/27/2018 11/28/2018 Repeat Robert Michaels Robotic Toys Rob Owens Order Entry Log-in Error
14 11/28/2018 11/29/2018 11/30/2018 Repeat Glenda Abbot Wagons & Carts Dennis Rivers HR Forecasting Reporting Error
15 11/28/2018 11/29/2018 11/30/2018 New Rich Miller Robotic Toys Anita Jenkins Budgeting Master Update Error

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