NASA has offered 2 million dollars for a winner that could design a space elevator. Creating an elevator would make it more convenient and cheaper for NASA to get into space. Although the proposal is far fetched they are expecting at least one winner at some point this year. There currently have been no winners. They are proposing a cable from a satellite and the elevelator would have to run a kilometer long.

NASA is using the SDLC to implement their new idea. They are currently in the planning stage. They are offering money for someone else to plan it basically. Once they have chosen a winner and have figured out exactly how this will work they will analyze every aspect of what needs to be included for this crazy idea to work. Once the analysis has been done the design step will occur and virtual design will most likely be used. When that has been done the development stage will occur and the elevator will put into production. Once it has been developed the testing will occur. If all goes well with the testing implementation will occur and people will be able to utilize the elevator to space. And hopefully if it doesn’t tip over from outerspace just routine mainenance will be required and it will be a huge technological success!!!

Gross, Doug (2009). Can scientists make a space elevator? ccn.com/TECH. Retrieved on November 12, 2009 from, http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/11/05/space.elevator/index.html

The New York Times article, “Bing Adds Features, Including Results From Wolfram Alpha” relates to Chapter 10 because they utilized ERP and decision making support to better there site. Since Microsoft first started BING which began in May they have may modest but steady stands against yahoo and google. Now that the company has had some time to implement and see how their site is working and not working they have collaborated with Wolfram Alpha to know provide answers to questions when a topic is entered into the search engine. Some of the new features include nutritional facts and providing a BMI for people to utilize. If someone typed in chicken in the search engine the nutritional facts would pop up in a box on the same screen.

Microsoft wants to distinguish their Bing search engine from yahoo and google search engine sites so that people will have reason and differentiation from those already very popular sites. Enhancing their site and overing something different will hopefully make the site as popular as the competing ones. Other enhancements were made to the site including snapshots of the web pages before they open it, enhancing shopping previews, and localized weather results and events.

Microsoft utilized ERP and collaborated systems to enhance their site to further their business success. They are taking the current data they have and implementing decision making support to make decisions that will be profitable for the company.

Helft, Miguel(2009). Bing adds features, including results from Wolfram Alpha. nytimes.com/TECH, retreived November 10, 2009, from http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/bing-adds-features-including-results-from-wolfram-alpha/

Yesterday, Wednesday, October 28th, the TIME reported an article addressing what happens to a facebook when you die. “Facebook has a “memorializing” profiles of users who have died, taking them out of the public search results, sealing them from any future log-in attempts and leaving the wall open for family and friends to pay their respects.” Although Facebook has always had this feature for quite some time they have never advertised this feature.

When facebook released a new version of the homepage last week one feature was an automatic generator for people to reconnect with. There was backlash from the users because some of the suggestions were of people who had already died.

Facebook taking their customer’s situation in consideration decided to go public with the feature and address it. This decision was an example of Operational CRM. The responses from the customers provides a list generator for customer information and facebook was able to compile the information and utilize in a marketing strategy for this “memorializing” feature they provide. This feature can do big things for face book because it sets them apart from other social networking sites and shows that they are really focused on covering all aspects for their customers.

Because of facebooks online socialing network they really have an advantage to utilize list generators and implement marketing campaigns. They can easily create questionaires and have their customers respond on their website. Because it is already online based compiling a list generator would be simple and easy to implement quickly.

Fletcher, Dan (2009). What happens to your facebook when you die? CNN.COM/TECH, Retrieved October 29, 2009, from http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1932803,00.html?CNN=yes