Matching Training to Software Use 3-D Graphing

You have the responsibility for managing software training for Sales, Accounting, and

Operations Department workers in your organization. You have surveyed the workers to get a

feel for the amounts of time spent using various packages, and the results are shown below.

The values shown are the total number of workers in each department and the total weekly

hours the department’s workers spend using each software package. You have been asked to

prepare a spreadsheet summarizing this data and comparing the use of the various packages

across departments.

a. Create a spreadsheet illustrating each application’s average use per department. To do this,

you will first enter the data shown below. Then compute the average weekly spreadsheet use by

dividing spreadsheet hours by the number of Sales workers. Do this for each department.

Repeat these three calculations for both database and presentation use. Round results to the

nearest 1/100th.

b. Create a three-dimensional bar graph illustrating the averages by department and software

package.

c. A committee has been formed to plan software training classes at your company. Prepare a

slide presentation with four slides illustrating your findings. The first slide should serve as an

introduction to the data. The second slide should contain a copy of the original data table

(without the averages). The third slide should contain a copy of the three-dimensional bar graph

from the previous answer. The fourth slide should contain your conclusions regarding key

applications per department. Use professional labels, formatting, and backgrounds.

 

Department    Employees   Spreasheet     Database   Presentations

*Sales                       225           410             1,100                650

*Operations                75            710              520                 405

*Accounting                30            310             405                    50