Current Ethical Issues: Smith Systems Consulting

Current Ethical Issues Paper
RONESHA WARD
XMGT/216
DECEMBER 21, 2014
TAYLOR JEFFREYS

Current Ethical Issues Paper
It is my pleasure to welcome you to Smith Systems Consulting. We have been serving clients since 1994 with high value Web and Business Application Services. SSC has the knowledge and experience to make your project a success. Let SSC help you design and implement your network, website, or custom programing project. We offer the latest technology to provide safe and secure website hosting. SSC’s skilled and experience employees can help you develop your latest and newest technology project or upgrade your current system. It is our responsibility to maintain the satisfaction of our customers and to keep customers returning
Smith Systems Consulting have the technology, skills, and capabilities, to join in realizing your strategy, from concept to a fully functional website produced with cutting edge programing and networking tools. SSC can help optimize operations through highly responsive support and high available maintenance service once your site is deployed. We are your preferred partner when the goal is optimizing business results through high web market presence. SSC services range from network design, network installation, database design, application support, application programing, website development, website maintenance, and web hosting. Smith Systems Consulting provides services to small and medium size business organization, large domestic, multinational and global corporations in a varied cross-section of industries. We also provide service to a number of government and not-for-profit organizations. Our clients are highly satisfied in the Information Technology Services industry with overall satisfaction exceeding
Currently SSC have been accused of copying a website. McBride Financial Services have been loyal clients of SSC since 1995. When SSC first began, McBridge Financial Services was one of few businesses that trusted us in developing their website. Also they gave us the opportunity to produce the first of many reliable databases for their company. Lendmark Financial Service is accusing Smith Systems Consulting of duplicating their website design and information. Lendmark Financial Services came across www.McBrideFinancialServices.org which looked suspiciously familiar. SSC was then contacted my Lendmark Financial Service lawyer with accusation of copying there entire web design and content. One of SSC’s top web designers just revamped McBride Financial Service website. He has an extensive background of web designing and databases. After the accusation was placed on SSC a lawyer was hired to represent the company. SSC have copyright protection on the websites we build and the codes we use. It was disappointing to find out that a loyal employee compromised our company by plagiarizing someone else’s creative concept. In SSC defensive they were not aware that their top web designers were recreating other’s concepts. Not even days into the investigation an employee brought forth concerns about seeing other databases that look similar to the ones our company creates. Now SSC have