1: Pat Jones is the general manager at Denny’s Muffler, which has 3 locations and 27 employees. Currently, the office manager at 3 stores put input their weekly sales results into a spreadsheet and e-mail that spreadsheet to Pat on Friday by noon. Each week, Pat handles between 120 to 350 records of sales data, and another 100 to 300 records of customer data. Pat would be like to keep track of weekly sales, which customers are associated with each sale, the parts used for each sale, what work was done for each customer at each sale, and which parts were used for each sale. If Pat wants to improve his efficiency and effectiveness, which of the following applications would be the best for collecting and storing Pat’s data? 1) Excel 2) SAP 3) Access 4) Minitab 5) Teams 6) MySQL

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Q1: Pat Jones is the general manager at Denny’s Muffler, which has 3 locations and
27 employees. Currently, the office manager at 3 stores put input their weekly sales
results into a spreadsheet and e-mail that spreadsheet to Pat on Friday by noon.
Each week, Pat handles between 120 to 350 records of sales data, and another 100
to 300 records of customer data. Pat would be like to keep track of weekly sales,
which customers are associated with each sale, the parts used for each sale, what
work was done for each customer at each sale, and which parts were used for each
sale. If Pat wants to improve his efficiency and effectiveness, which of the following
applications would be the best for collecting and storing Pat’s data?
1) Excel
2) SAP
3) Access
4) Minitab
5) Teams
6) MySQL

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