Century Clothes is a retailer with outlets in more than 30 cities in the United States. After a recent expansion of an additional 25 outlets, Century Clothes looked to expand its IT infrastructure to make it easier for workers to apply for jobs and for employees to submit their time sheets. The IT department decided against increasing the capacity of the company's servers. Instead, the team used a third-party hosting service for running these applications. The employees at the megastores are allowed access to this information through a web interface. In this scenario, Century Clothes is employing

A. decision support systems.
B. relational database management.
C. cloud computing.
D. expert systems.
E. an HR dashboard.


Answer: C

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