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North Shore Boat Sales

 Situation:

North Shore Boat Sales sells new and used boats and operates a Web-based boat brokerage business in Toronto. The company has grown, and North Shore needs a new information system to manage the inventory, the brokerage operation, and information about prospective buyers and sellers. Dan Robeson, the owner, asked you to design samples of computer screens and reports that the new system might produce.

1.      1.Design a switchboard that includes the main information management functions that North Shore might require. Create a storyboard with a design layout that allows customers to perform the following functions: Obtain information about new boats, obtain information about used boats, send an e-mail to North Shore, learn more about the company, or review links to other marine-related sites.

2.       Prospective buyers might want to search for boats by type, size, price range, or manufacturer. Develop a screen design that would permit those choices.

3. Suggest reports that might be useful to North Shore’s management.

Answer: 

The reports that I can suggest to North Shore’s Management are the detailed report, exception report and the summary report.

·         Detail report produces one or more lines of output for each record processed and each line of output printed is detailed.

·         Exception report displays only those records that meet a specific condition or conditions. Exception reports are useful when the user wants information only on records that might require action, but does not need to know the details.

·         Summary report display only those records that you want to see, the total figures and do not need supporting details.

     4. Suggest the general layout for a Web-based source document that prospective sellers could use to describe their boats. The information should include boat type (sail or power), manufacturer, year, length , type of engine, hull color, and asking price.