Dear International Data Analytics for Business Executives: . Please read the following Data Analytics for Business case assigned for this Learning Week and please analyze and answer the Assignment(s) requested in this Case Analysis. . . Part1: PLE originally produced lawn mowers, but a significant portion of sales volume over recent years has come from the growing small-tractor market. As we noted in Week 2, PLE sells their products worldwide, with sales regions including North America, South America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim. Three years ago a new region was opened to serve China, where a booming market for small tractors has been established. PLE has always emphasized quality and considers the quality it builds into its products as its primary selling point. In the past 2 years, PLE has also emphasized the ease of use of their products. Before digging into the details of operations, Elizabeth Burke wants to gain an overview of PLE’s overall business performance and market position by examining the information provided in the database. Assignment: Specifically, she is asking you to construct appropriate charts for the data in the following worksheets and summarize your conclusions from analysis of these charts. Dealer Satisfaction End-User Satisfaction Complaints Mower Unit Sales Tractor Unit Sales On-Time Delivery Defects after Delivery Response Time Part2: As noted in the case in Week 2, the supply chain worksheets provide cost data associated with logistics between existing plants and customers as well as proposed new plants. Assignment: Ms. Burke wants you to extract the records associated with the unit shipping costs of proposed plant locations and compare the costs of existing locations against those of the proposed locations using quartiles. Part3: Assignment: Ms. Burke would also like a quantitative summary of the average responses for each of the customer attributes in the worksheet 2014 Customer Survey for each market region as a cross-tabulation (use PivotTables as appropriate), along with frequency distributions, histograms, and quartiles of these data. Part4:  Assignment: Propose a monthly dashboard of the most important business information that Ms. Burke can use on a routine basis as data are updated. Create one using the most recent data. Your dashboard should not consist of more than 6–8 charts, which should fit comfortably on one screen. Write a formal report summarizing your results for all four parts of this case. Assignment: Elizabeth Burke wants some detailed statistical information about much of the data in the PLE database. In particular, she wants to know the following: the mean satisfaction ratings and standard deviations by year and region in the worksheets Dealer Satisfaction and End-User Satisfaction a descriptive statistical summary for the 2012 customer survey data how the response times differ in each quarter of the worksheet Response Time how defects after delivery (worksheet Defects after Delivery) have changed over these 5 years how sales of mowers and tractors compare with industry totals and how strongly monthly product sales are correlated with industry sales Perform these analyses and summarize your results in a written report to Ms. Burke. . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- . Please develop YOUR OWN TEAM Business Analytics EXCEL model(s) to support all your answers and analyses and post this(these) file(s) in addition to your Case Analysis Performance Lawn Equipment Report.  . Finally, please answer ALL Questions and Sections of this Data Analytics for Business Case with great detail AND STEP BY STEP being extremely methodical and accurate in your answers. It is extremely important that for each Question and Section, you write the entire question and you LABEL and/or PLACE the appropriate headings and subheadings clearly for EACH part of the question and/or section. . Please address, analyze, and discuss in great detail and thoroughly support and explain the what’s, how’s, and why’s of each of your answers. 

Scenario North American Transport (NAT) is a fast growinglong-haul trucking company that specializes in the delivery of fresh foods to many of the leading fresh-food retail chains across the United States. NAT is based out of Kansas City, Kansas and employees 75 drivers, loaders, mechanics, communications technicians, business developers andmanagers. NAT’s business plan includes 20% growth per year or 225 employees within 5 years. NAT is also planning on adding additional Fleet Resource Centersin California and Virginia. Fleet Resource Centers are NAT owned service facilities used to maintain the fleet of trucks, vans, trailers, refrigeration etc. Fleet Resource Centers also offer growth and will require resources. Business Goals for the MIS Architecture: An architecture that is flexible and scalable; Company growth is projected to be 20% per year An architecture that can rapidly deploy/employ new systems and technology; Agile system development An architecture that meets the demands of evolving business processes; Information Technology cannot “hold up” any business process, IT must be adaptable An architecture that is easily understood and easy to manage; Minimize IT department footprint. Take advantage of cloud services An architecture that is secure; Deploy state-of-the-art security software/hardware MIS Architecture Current MIS Architecture Capabilities: One 12 port 10 Mb/s switch Laptop computers used to support administrationwith various operating systems 1 shared printer MS Office 2007 Exchange Server 2007 MS SQL on a stand-alone computer ADSL broadband Internet 8 Mb/s Instructions Create an MIS Architecture Plan You will use Microsoft Word to develop a MISarchitecture plan that analyzes the current capabilities, lists available resources, aligns capabilities with business objectives in order to identify gaps and recommends IT solutions. Your plan must include a Table of Contents and Headers. Analyze and explain the current MIS architecture: Discuss bandwidth, speedof service, reliability, scalability, mobility andsecurity. Create a list that identifies and outlines existing resources being utilized in the company. Discuss the operational objectives of the company using assumptions gained from the scenario. Develop a recommendation plan for an improved MIS architecture. Your plan should examine whether or not the current architecture meets the business needs and if not, identify those gaps. Be sure to consider the businesses’ goals and objectives. Using software of your choosing (Ex. Power Pointor Visio), construct a revamped architecture diagram that meets the needs of the company. Attach your architecture diagram as an appendix.