Samantha Reeder Jacob Jackson David Schetman

 The primary objective of any TPS is to capture, process, and store transactions and to produce a variety of documents related to routine business activities.  Examples of TPS -MerlinTeller -Self Checkout at Walmart and/or Target -System for making Airlines Reservation

 In 1960, the first TPS was created for American Airlines  SABRE (Semi-Automated Business Research Environment)  The system was created to for the Airline company to make expedient reservations. With this system installed American Airlines became able to automate reservations.

 Today Sabre GDS has to assist over 300,000 travel agent companies globally, 400 airlines, 25 car rental brands, 50 rail providers and 14 cruise lines.  Sabre is also the company that is behind Travelocity, which is considered one of the best online traveling agencies today.

 Batch processing- In terms of business transactions, there is some delay between the processing and occurrence of an event.  On-Line/Real Time Processing (OLTP)- Transactions are updated in real time, with no delay in the occurrence of the event.  On-Line Entry with Delayed Processing- Orders are entered into the system but are not processed immediately.

 RAPID RESPONSE  RELIABILITY  INFLEXIBILITY  CONTROLLED PROCESSING

PERFORMANCE CONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY DATA INTEGRITY EASE OF USE MODULAR GROWTH REDUCED COST FOR BUSINESSES

 ORGANIZATION DEPENDENCY  SECURITY BREACH  HUMAN ERROR

 Hotel Reservation Systems  Point of Sales Terminals in retail  Credit Card Sales Transactions  Phone Service Bill Generation

 Target (POS Trojan)  November 27-December 15  70 million customers  Neiman Marcus (2 pieces of Malware)  July 16 th - October 30 th  1.1 million cards effected  Michaels ( Malware)  May 8th – January 27 th  3 million cards at risk