Strengths of Rainbow Illusion and Importance of Distributed Computing System

This report discusses the strengths of Rainbow Illusion, a clothing business in Australia, and the importance of implementing a distributed computing system. It also covers possible fraud scenarios and the benefits of the identified strengths, such as the usage of a distributed system for computation, various payment modes, in-depth analysis of invoices, appropriate maintenance of chain methods, and reunion of transaction records. The report recommends implementing a distributed system over a centralised one due to its fault tolerance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.

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Executive Summary
The report mainly focuses on the strengths of the concerned organization namely,
Rainbow illusion. The report describes that the identified strengths can mitigate or can
solve all the issues associated with the organization. Rainbow illusion sell clothing for
the females of the New South Wales. The whole processes is linked with some small
chain processes which helps the organization to operate the business smoothly. The
report also describes the main difference between the distributed computing and
centralised computing system which showcases that the distributed system has more
benefits than the centralised one ad thus the report recommends other organization to
implement the distributed computing system instead of the centralised one.

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Table of Contents
Introduction........................................................................................................................3
Strength of Rainbow illusion in controlling sales...............................................................4
Benefits of the identified strength......................................................................................7
Possibility of Fraud due to the situational Pressure........................................................10
Reason behind implementing the distributed system over the centralised one..............11
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................12
References.......................................................................................................................13

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Introduction
The following report is written to showcase the different strength of an
organization namely, Rainbow illusion. It is large business which comprises of total thirty
retail stores throughout the South Wales and Victoria. The business provides
readymade female clothing to the females of Australia. Besides mentioning the strength
of the organization the report also discusses some area of the business where the
organization faces lack in resources due to improper attention or lack of attention in the
business operations.
The report also encounters two various situations of possible fraud that can be
vulnerable for the organization. These frauds can be caused due to some forged
activities. The main difference between the distributed computing system and the
centralised computing system is portrayed in this report. The report also showcases the
importance of implementing the distributed computing system instead of the centralised
computing system. Thus, lastly the report recommends all the organization to implement
the distributed system rather than installation of the centralised one.

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Strength of Rainbow illusion in controlling sales
1. Usage of the distributed system for the computation operation: The whole
process after the customer placed order are subdivided in small steps or
processes. This subdivision helps the organization to operate smoothly and
deliver the desired clothing to the customers. The various subdivision are
stepwise and appropriate choose of the clothing, Invoice generation and lastly,
dispatching the desired clothing to the respective customer. The subdivided
processes are handled or managed by some representatives. The organization
follows a policy that a representative of a process cannot interfere to other
processes. The representatives are allocated to the process on the basis of their
expertise and thus they are not allowed to interrupt in other processes (Dumas et
al. 2013). This helps the organization to operate their business operation quickly.
Therefore, it can be said that the Rainbow Illusion ensures the business
development by using these distributed systems or subdivision processes. Each
and every process maintain a proper chronological value for the organization.
Therefore, it can be concluded that all the processes are unique. Thus, it helps
the business to access or track the data associated with the business.
2. Various payment mode offered by the organization: The organization offers
many payment option for the customers. The customers can make a payment by
the means cheque, debit and credit card, can also make a payment through
liquid cash and other net banking facilities like e – wallet. All transactions or the
payment receipt is recorded and stored in the organization database for any
future purpose. This documentation step can be done in four various processes.

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These four processes ensures a proper and an ideal transaction. Thus, these
various mode of payment is an advantage for the customers of the Rainbow
Illusion. The customers get various option to choose for making a payment for
their purchased order. The documentation of all the transaction also plays an
important role for the organization and thus all the data of the database should
be kept secured such that no one can misuse all these data for their individual
purpose. The security of the data is the primary objective of the business (Zhang
2018). The data comprises of sensitive information related to the customers like
their name, address, age, credit and debit card details.
3. In – Depth analysis of the invoice at every stage of the transaction: When
the customer chooses their desired clothing. The sales representative prepares
an invoice depending on the item chosen by the customers. The representative
generates these invoices manually. When the sales representative completes the
making of the invoice he or she deliver the generated invoice to the cashier who
is present in the cash counter of the organization. The cashier then analyses the
invoice made by the sales representative and depending on the invoice the
cashier inputs all the data associated with the ordered item. In this way, Rainbow
illusion analyses or examine the data that are generated in the previous stage.
This cross checking mechanism or method helps the organization to avoid all the
errors. This helps the organization to detect the errors quickly and also allow the
organization to solve all the identified errors. The organization focuses on solving
all the errors in the minimum time which helps them to develop the business in a
rapid way.

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4. After the analysis of the invoice the post is sent to the sales department:
The representatives manually insert all the data of the invoice. The data are like
order id, name, address, mode of payment and contact number. After the
preparation of the invoice, it is forwarded to the cashier who is there in the cash
counter and handling all the operations of the cash counter. The cashier then
analyses the invoice and then after all the validation of the order details the
cashier insert the data of the customer’s order. The order details that are inserted
is then forwarded to the sales department. The sales representative starts their
operation depending on the data gathered from the cashier. If the sales
department detect any errors during their analysis then a clarification is dropped
which needs to justified as soon as possible.
5. Appropriate maintenance of chain methods: When the customer places an
order then the next processes are chained together to complete the transaction
until the delivery of the Product to the customer’s doorstep. All these processes
are interconnected to each other. The transaction is applied or executed
depending on the priority set by the representative. The transaction is then
executed in a series. Each and every responsibilities like data entry and
validation of the invoice is equally distributed among the employees of the
Rainbow Illusion. The responsibilities range starts from the initiation phase to the
higher post managerial operations.
6. Reunion of the transaction record: Another advantage of the Rainbow Illusion
is that it makes a record of all the transaction that are made in the entire day. The
representative prepares or make the record of every transaction every day which

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helps the business to track and account the data gathered from every
transaction. Indeed, this procedure is an import part for every business as the
business can keep a track of their sales on the daily basis. The assistant
manager present at that time is responsible to conduct this operation in the
Rainbow Illusion. Then the manager analyses the report and declare or make a
review on the sales of the day. This helps to recover the business loss faced by
the organization and allow them to operate more efficiently.
Benefits of the identified strength
The strengths of the Rainbow Illusion associated with the sales of the
organization allow the authority to overlook some business factors. This can impact
negatively to the business. Thus, the business should also focus on the risk that are
associated with the organization such that the business can overcome all the issues
faced by the company. As mentioned in the report, the initial determined strength of the
Rainbow illusion is the usage of the distributed system for the computational purpose
associated with the business. This allow the business to break the whole process into
some sub division. This helps the business to operate seamlessly (Shenkar, Luo and
Chi 2014). The subdivided process is handled to some experts and the representatives
are not allowed to interfere in other processes. This helps to increase the business profit
by allowing the representative to focus on their individual roles and responsibilities. The
allocation of the representative depending on their individual expertise lower the errors
and the risks that are associated with the organization. The subdivision of a process
helps the organization to detect and resolve all the identified issues of the organization.
The errors can be resolved within a fixed time frame.

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As mentioned earlier, the second identified strength of the Rainbow Illusion is
providing a wide range of option for the customers for making a payment. The Rainbow
Illusion provides many payment option to their customers. The diverse option for the
customer play an important role for the customers. The various options available for the
customers are liquid cash, debit or credit card, e – wallet and other forms of payment
(Veblen 2017). These facility enhances the performance of the organization and allow
the organization to involve more people in their business. The various forms of the
payment decreases the time of business operation and also allow the business to focus
on their core business operation rather interfering in other sections.
The third determined strength of the Rainbow illusion is the preparation of the
invoice. This method adds a chronological value to the business. When the customer
chooses their desired clothing. The sales representative prepares an invoice depending
on the item chosen by the customers. The representative generates these invoices
manually. When the sales representative completes the making of the invoice he or she
deliver the generated invoice to the cashier who is present in the cash counter of the
organization. The cashier then analyses the invoice made by the sales representative
and depending on the invoice the cashier inputs all the data associated with the ordered
item. In this way, Rainbow illusion analyses or examine the data that are generated in
the previous stage. This cross checking mechanism or method helps the organization to
avoid all the errors. This helps the organization to detect the errors quickly and also
allow the organization to solve all the identified errors. The organization focuses on
solving all the errors in the minimum time which helps them to develop the business in a
rapid way. This process helps to determine the errors associated with ordered item.

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The fourth determined strength of the Rainbow Illusion is the usage of the chain
procedure which analyses the order made the customers thoroughly in every step. The
responsibility of an individual is directly proportional to the authority and thus the rate of
authority is governed by the rise in the rate of corresponding responsibilities. This helps
the organization to mitigate the errors (Saez et al. 2014). The representatives manually
insert all the data of the invoice. The data are like order id, name, address, mode of
payment and contact number. After the preparation of the invoice, it is forwarded to the
cashier who is there in the cash counter and handling all the operations of the cash
counter. The cashier then analyses the invoice and then after all the validation of the
order details the cashier insert the data of the customer’s order. The order details that
are inserted is then forwarded to the sales department. The sales representative starts
their operation depending on the data gathered from the cashier (Maia, Alves and Leão
2013). If the sales department detect any errors during their analysis then a clarification
is dropped which needs to justified as soon as possible.
The fifth identified strength of the organization is thorough analysis of the invoice
before sending it to the sales department. This thorough analysis of the invoice helps
the organization to find all possible threats that can be faced by them due to the data of
the invoice.
The ultimate determined strength of the Rainbow Illusion is the usage of the
transaction record. The transaction details are recorded by the business daily for some
future purpose and thus this helps the business to keep a track of the data associated
with the transactions.

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Possibility of Fraud due to the situational Pressure
Security of information is an important factor for every organization. Rainbow
Illusion deals with various sensitive data daily. Thus all these data should be kept
secured such that they cannot be misused by other people. The threats can be intrinsic
or extrinsic. Intrinsic risk are causes by the insiders of the organization (Hon, Chan and
Lu 2013). Situational Pressure is the primary reason for the intrinsic risks. However the
possibility of the intrinsic risk is low for the Rainbow Illusion as all the process are
handled by the experts (Jones 2013). Two such scenarios caused due to the situation
pressure are as follows:
1. Employees facing threats as well as encountering some risks for lawbreakers to
customise the interest. These type of individuals are responsible for some forged
activities in the organization. This type of situation imparts negative effect in the
organization.
2. Employees can be sick at any point of time. This scenarios is the worst risk faced
by the organization as the system of that person will be handled by other officials
who may be unaware of the system and can dispute all the information and other
following stages of the processes.

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Reason behind implementing the distributed system over the
centralised one
In case of the distributed system, the system contains independent computer
machines as their primary drivers. These multiple system appear as a unit interface for
the users. In this type of system there is a provision of variable resources as well can
render respective services for supporting the OS (Yan et al. 2014). The entire
distributed system is handled the Operating system. In this type of computation the
computer systems are not dependent to each other. This is gained by a high speed
network.
The computation system is distributed and it is comprised of the integrated
independent computer systems as the primary constituents. This appears as a single
interface to the users. In the occasion of a distributed computational system, there is the
provision of variable resources and render the corresponding services to support the
operating system (Iyengar, S.S. and Brooks 2016). Operating system accounts for the
purpose of maintaining the entire system. In the distributed system of computing, there
is no scheme of interdependency between the small computers (Ganesan et al. 2017).
However, the interconnectivity between those computers is achieved through the
integration of high-speed network. There is the utter requirement for an interface that
eventually will facilitate the connection of the operations and there is the necessity of a
software that will fetch the provision for multiple operations (Klauck et al. 2015). Many
organization have implemented the distributed computation system for their business
operation because of the following factors:
 Fault as well as tolerance ability: Distributed computation system are

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more capable than the centralised computation system. In this case study,
it is the primary reason to implement the distributed system instead of the
centralised one in the Rainbow illusion as when a system disrupts the
other machines or systems can operate,
 Scalability as well as modular development: Distributed System are
more scalable than the centralised computation system. This helps the
business to develop in a rapid way.
 Cost Effectiveness: The implementation is low in case of the distributed
system as compared to the centralised one. The maintenance cost of the
distributed system is also very low than the centralised computation
system.
Conclusion
Thus, it can be concluded that the step taken by the Rainbow Illusion to
implement the distributed system in their organization is an efficient as well as effective
decision for the organization. The chain process introduced in the organization also
impacts a lot for the Rainbow illusion. The invoice preparation and the analysis of those
invoices are made thorough these distributed systems and the representative those are
allocated in every stage of the transaction. The report also concluded that the payment
option offered to the customers also allow the customer to make their shopping reliable.
The report discussed all the possible modes of the payment. The report also discussed
the various sections of the business where the authorities need to pay their attention
like security of the data and many more. The report ends with an in – detail
differentiation between the distributed and centralised computation systems. According

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to the report the distributed system should be implemented in the organization for
various factors.
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