Critical Thinking Questions Case 14-1 You Have Been Hired as a Consultant

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Critical Thinking Questions Case 14-1 You have been hired as a consultant for a firm that advises large companies on the best ways to bring enterprise-wide technologies to bear on their day-to-day operations. One of the firms in your consulting portfolio is a unique car rental service that positions cars all around the city, in major metropolitan markets, and allows renters to access the vehicles that are closest to them, contingent on availability. If the car rental service would like to implement a Web site that provides up-to-the-minute availability information about the cars in their fleet, which of the following technologies are you likely to recommend?

• A) workflow application
• B) Web services
• C) extranet
• D) VPN

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