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Petes Puzzles Background and Statement of Needs A new idea for how to make something in a different way presents an opportunity to take action and exploit that idea
Submitted by bombman7 on June 18, 2008
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Background and Statement of Needs
A new idea for how to make something in a different way presents an opportunity to take action and exploit that idea for a profit. Such was the case in August of 1998 when Pete Miller, a graphics design student who worked part-time in a manufacturing shop, came up with the idea to take high quality computer images he designed to create jigsaw puzzles. Pete took his talent for creating these stunning images, along with his aptitude to use a jigsaw, and began making puzzles in his garage. For fun, he gave away his hand-made puzzles to friends and coworkers. Soon, there was such a large demand for his puzzles that Pete started spending his lunch hour selling puzzles from the trunk of his car. Word of these unique puzzles traveled quickly so Pete began selling his product through the mail. Pete’s small business enjoyed success that was as beautiful as the images he created.
Now, nine years after the humble beginning of Pete’s Puzzles, the growing company is contending with a problem in the accounting department. One of the responsibilities in accounting is to archive all documents from the corporate network. Documents currently maintained by Pete’s Puzzles include maintenance contracts for its jigsaws, support agreements for the computers, business contracts, and other important documents from both internal and third party entities that require archival. Document archival in the accounting department has been delayed because the flatbed scanners attached to the computers cannot keep pace with the demand for the high speed scanning of documents sent directly to a shared file location on a file server. Further, the automated document feeder on the scanners tends to jam. Delays in copying these files have been noticed, and they are threatening to hamper the company’s operations. To address the need for faster file archiving, Pete’s Puzzles is implementing a project to evaluate and install a network-based...
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