PROJECT

CIS 411/ MIS 310

SPRING 2021-22

1. The Foremost Composite Materials Company is planning a two-day sales conference for October 1920, starting with a reception on the evening of October 18. The conference consists of all-day meetings that the entire sales force, numbering 120 sales representatives and their 16 managers, must attend. Each sales representative requires his or her own room, and the company needs two common meeting rooms, one large enough to hold the entire sales force plus a few visitors (200) and the other able to hold half the force. Management has set a budget of $195,000 for the representatives room rentals. The company would like to hold the conference in either Miami or Marco Island, Florida, at a Hilton- or Marriott-owned hotel.

Use the Hilton and Marriott websites to select a hotel in whichever of these cities would enable the company to hold its sales conference within its budget and meet its sales conference requirements. Then locate flights arriving the afternoon prior to the conference. Your attendees will be coming from Los Angeles (51), San Francisco (30), Seattle (22), Chicago (19), and Pittsburgh (14). Determine costs of each airline ticket from these cities. When you are finished, create a budget for the conference. The budget will include the cost of each air- line ticket, the room cost, and $70 per attendee per day for food.

2. This project will help develop your Internet skills in using the web to research and evaluate security outsourcing services. You have been asked to help your companys management decide whether to outsource security or keep the security function within the firm. Search the web to find information to help you decide whether to out- source security and to locate security outsourcing services.

• Present a brief summary of the arguments for and against outsourcing computer security for your company.
• Select two firms that offer computer security outsourcing services and compare them and their services.
• Prepare an electronic presentation for management, summarizing your findings. Your presentation should make the case of whether your company should outsource computer security. If you believe your company should outsource, the presentation should identify which security outsourcing service you selected and justify your decision.