Hormel Foods Team Project Lab

Schneider Hall Room 101

The Hormel Foods Team Project Lab is a state-of-the art lab where small groups of students use web-based technology and software for problem-solving. Sitting at specially designed conference tables, students view and edit network-based presentations, proposals and data on 50-inch plasma screen monitors.

The room is used by graduate and undergraduate students taking accounting, business communications, finance, management, information systems, and marketing classes.

Lab Software

Adobe Creative Suite 3, an integrated design environment used to create and publish content for print and the web
Catalyst, a manufacturing productivity software package for small manufacturers that includes planning, scheduling, and inventory control capabilities
CPA TestPrep, self-study software to help prepare for the CPA exam
Great Plains Dynamics, provides functionality for financial management, project management, supply chain management, analytics, human resources and payroll, manufacturing, and e-commerce
IDEA, data analysis software used to satisfy financial statement auditing objectives, as well as serve as a tool for account reconciliations, basic data mining, fraud investigations, operational/ internal auditing, file transfers, and preparation of management reports
Microsoft Office 2007, Professional Edition
NetOp Student, software that allows instructors to demonstrate any computer application on each student workstation simultaneously
Oracle Client and Developer Tools, a business-class database management system
SPSS, software used to solve business and research problems using statistics
Visual Paradigm, a cross-platform visual UML modeling and CASE tool
Visual Studio.NET, an object-oriented application development environment, software used to visually design Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases and create reusable data access queries