The Queen Mary 2 and Partner

1.What conveniences does The Ship Partner information system provide to passengers of the Queen Mary 2? What entertainment services could be made available to passengers through this digital network?
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The Ship Partner information system was a very big help in Queen Mary2. Indeed no wonder it is called a "Ship Partner" eventually because it is used to tract security, billing, telephone service, on board television etc.Any business involved in transportation takes security seriously. Cunard Line takes passenger security a step further as the only cruise line in the world to include passenger photos on security ID cards, creating the cards in a matter of minutes upon check-in.

Through this digital network many possible entertainment can be done in the ship as mention in the PDF. They can offer wifi access so connect to the internet, game room that offers high tech and modern 3D games, touch screen gadgets and many more.


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2. How does The Ship Partner information system assist ship managers with their duties and responsibilities?
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The Ship Partner information System serve a helper that manages everything automatically.
As the description says, it manages the security of the ship, its passengers and it's utilities. They could have a Marine accounting software that can automatically calculate the customer's/passenger's billing(room cost,food,luxuries etc.), etc. It also helps the managerial process more reliable, secure, fast and easy.
The system helps to host regulations to adhere a software to perform tasks with greater efficiency and the more integration available the easier to implement.
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3. How does The Ship Partner information system assist Cunard in competing in the travel industry? What other travel &
leisure industries would benefit from a system like The Ship Partner?
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The Ship Partner information system made the Cunard ships a very successful one because of the many wonderful possibilities that had been built in the ship..the luxurious indulgence that any passenger could enjoy.

the other Industries:
1. Harren & Partner Ship Management GmbH & Co. KG offers ship, fleet, proprietary, and external tonnage management services. The company is based in Bremen, Germany. Harren & Partner Ship Management GmbH & Co. KG operates as a subsidiary of Harren & Partner Group.
2. James Neff Kramper Family Farm Partner Ship, Llp
3. Airplane Industries
4. Farm Industries
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4. Why is it important for the Ship Partner to have a backup system?
How would a system wide failure affect the functioning of the ship?

In ever Businesses regarding it's type whether in seas, air or on-land everything should be on the tracts should be covered with thick and powerful security.

All computers and their components are subject to failure. In fact sooner or later every business will be confronted with some type of computer failure. The largest threat to businesses during a failure will be some type of data loss or data corruption. While the causes of data loss and data corruption vary, not all are easily fixed.

When a data loss or data corruption occurs, many times the only option is to restore the data from a previously created backup of the affected data. Many businesses today over look the importance of data backups until they suffer the unexpected loss or corruption of valuable data. Once this occurs it would be too late, unless the business is lucky enough to restore the data by physically recreating all the affected files from scratch. This of course is only possible if they have a hard copy or another source from which to recreate the data. It will also cost the business a valuable amount of man hours in recreating the data as well. That is if they are lucky enough to be able to even recreate the data in the first place.(Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/35029)

Failing to backup your business data, especially mission critical data is nothing short of a recipe for disaster. Nothing is as important to your business as the data that sits on the hard drives of your systems.

Have you seen Titanic? I mean the movie it ha it's disastrous ending and any ship who have so much dependency and regard to technology when crush could be as tragic as what have had happened to Titanic. Wide failure could literally broke down the system and it's business. No aircon, no TV, no internet, no games, no fridge, no more light, no electric current, no customer, no workers, no money........THE BUSINESS WILL BE DEAD.

BUT THE GOOD THING IS, IT CAN BE REVIVED ONCE AGAIN BUT WILL COST YOU GREATER CAPITAL THAN WHAT YOU HAVE IN THE START.