American Eagle Computer Products

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American Eagle Computer Products

• Presented by Gwen Mascarenas
• June 23, 1999

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American Eagle

• established in 1978
• corporate office located in the Midwest
• offices also located in Italy, France,
  Switzerland
• future site in Buenos Aires and Argentina
• feel confident that their employees are
  culturally versatile enough to successfully
  compete in foreign markets

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When do you need an Intranet?

• when you want to organize corporate information
  to make it easy to use and access
• to create a networking infrastructure readily
  accessible to any business partner or employee
• used to keep essential information readily
  available, but still keep it secure from an
  unauthorized user
• to reduce the need for paper in the office, yet
  keeping information sharing easy efficient

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When do you need an Intranet?(ctnd)

• Used to facilitate and lessen the cost of
  communication for multi-national companies
• can be used to provide remote access to
  information for you and your staff

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Internet Services Available

• Web hosting
• Standard package consists of
• domain registration
• easily accessible URL
• forwarding e-mail box
• web site activity log
• ftp server access
• Cost for this package
• initial fee - 150
• monthly fee - 50

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Internet Services Available (ctnd)

• Web Design
• Clients include
• Tooling Manufacturing Association, which is
  specialized in mold and die design
• Thee Diet Shoppe - specialized in diabetic
  awareness and diet information
• Detective.com - offers asset search and
  background services
• plus many more...

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Domain Name Registration

• You must also register your domain name through
  the InterNIC, the organization which controls all
  domain names
• Costs
• initial registration fee - 100 (for first two
  years
• yearly fee - 50

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Other products and services

• Cabling including 10 Base T Level 5, fiber
  optic, and microwave installation
• Consulting in the areas they specialize in
• Email server setup and maintenance
• Software training in the following areas
• Intro to Computers
• Windows 95

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Software Training (ctnd)

• MS Office Suite
• Intuit Quickbooks
• Using the Internet

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About the demo

• The demo contained
• Employee Information Center, consisting of
• employee manuals
• HR Resource forms
• Calendar and Announcements
• able to access general announcements and the
  newsletter
• you are able to post items on both of these sites
• calendar is much like the one found in Web CT

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About the demo (ctnd)

• I really was not overly impressed with the demo
  because you were not able to edit the fields.
• The demo really should have had a dummy model,
  where you could edit the fields, thus making it
  better.

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In conclusion

• I found this project to be interesting because it
  was fun to see this type of service in action.
• As I mentioned before, I think it could be
  improved.
• I also found the American Eagle to be an
  interesting company.