IT for Business: Pros and Cons of POS System, Centralized Database, and Decision Making

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Pros and Cons of the new POS System...........................................................................................3
POS System for gaining competitive advantage.............................................................................5
Advnatages of a centralised database..............................................................................................5
POS System and Decision making..................................................................................................7
Risks................................................................................................................................................9
Recommendations..........................................................................................................................10
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................12
References......................................................................................................................................13

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Introduction
A Case study on Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery has been provided for assessing
the report. In the report, the various advantages and disadvantages of the point of sale system that
was installed in the mentioned organisation has been provided. To help the business in gaining
competitive advantage, the methods have been evaluated and enlisted. In the report, the
advantages of a central database has been emphasized. For facilitating decision making purposes
by the POS system, different criteria has been assessed. The report discusses about the ways that
POS systems use to process the business processes effectively and how it can manually track
data. Proper telecommunication options has been provided for the new implemented technology.
Different networks has been discussed and the wireless and wired technologies has been
assessed. The risks associated with the new system has been evaluated in the report.
Pros and Cons of the new POS System
A POS system can provide any organisation like Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery
with a number of benefits as well as drawbacks. Some of the advantages and disadvantages of
the mentioned organisation are written as follows:-
The accounting process of Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery can be improved with
the new POS system. Previously, the accountant of the mentioned organisation had to go through
thousands of receipts which was not only time-consuming but also inefficient. The new POS
system will allow Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery to utilize the inbuilt reporting system
that will be able to organize the various departments of organization (Frisby et al. 2013).

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The new POS system will allow the mentioned organisation to expand their management
control over the schedules of employees to allocate and review their salaries to different
functions and departments. It will allow better accountability functions and provide the owner
with the power to provide more access controls to their subordinates (Rese, Schreiber and Baier
2014). They can now ask their personnel to provide the next goal of their sales for the next year
with the help of the data analytics of the new POS system.
The new POS system will allow Four Seasons Greenhouse and Nursery to have a proper
infrastructure for reporting and processing the business operations of the mentioned organisation.
Figure 1: POS system homescreen
(Source: Rese, Schreiber and Baier 2014)
The new POS system will allow the organisation to have a centralized system but the
benefit has its own set of disadvantages. Cyber-attacks on the system is possible if the
inventories are not set up in their latest inventory list. The centralized system can although
provide the prospective organisation can keeping the personal information of customers and