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

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Century Clothes is using a third-party hosting service, which suggests that they are utilizing cloud computing to run their applications. This allows employees to access the information they need through a web interface, which is a typical feature of cloud computing.

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