Cio Organization Paper

A. Key aspects of the IT infrastructure that must be in place to support the growth strategy

The company has decided to use different applications instead of using a single ERP system, which in turns would make their operations smoother. They have chosen to do this in order to be cost efficient and to focus on the specific need so each department uses a different application. That is connected by middleware that they don’t fully understand on how to operate, and are afraid that if they attempt to change it, it would crash all of their system. This in turn makes their operational capabilities not the strongest as it relates to their business model. On the other hand, some of the challenges that they face is that they will not be able to complete all orders or be able to implement improvements due to the increase volume of request that need to be processed during this time. Some of the IT related issues are those that are associated with the different applications that are being used. If an applications crashes then it would hold them up significantly in completing all orders and having them be delivered on time. Primarily the lack of staffing and the lack of IS improvements puts them at a disadvantage against their competitors who more than likely have significant more sophisticated IS infrastructure.

In 2005, Trinity’s focus was to plan on how to economically reduce controls and SOX related expenses without jeopardizing the valuable time spent on earlier compliance. One of the suggestions was to “invest in a company-wide, single-instance Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system that might reduce future SOX costs” (Schultze, 2011). Furthermore, “the ease in which controls could be modified or added being in one location was reason enough to consider the upgrade” (Denizon, 2008). However, the significant monetary and time investment to centralize their Information Systems (IT) was concerning. Then again, Trinity had already proven their ability to properly plan and carryout projects when tasked with challenges as was noted with their successful

IT Governance plays a critical role in aligning the new ERP system with VINSUN’s objectives. The main mission of the IT team is to provide technical support to the company. This can be achieved by having a clear assignment of responsibilities and authorities to each role in the team. Since VINSUN is adopting an ERP on cloud solution, a person should be assigned to communicate with Codeautomations, for instance, in acquiring technical, troubleshooting and maintenance support, given that Codeautomations having control over the general operation. Apart from this, VINSUN should also set up detailed standards and guidelines on the use of the new ERP solutions, such as the backup policies, providing instructions to employees on storing their

This portfolio focus on what I have learned during the whole IT Strategy and Control paper, a critical reflection of this paper would be provided. This reflection includes the key points, support reference and the demonstration of my own understanding about the paper itself and all of my personal understandings are based on the learning outcome of this paper. In the first part of this portfolio, I would discuss all the key IT Operations Management framework which have been introduced in the paper, the analysis of the processes based on my own understanding would be given. In the second part, analyze processes required for aligning IT infrastructure and operations with the business goals of an organization would be talked about, and I would focus a business organization which has been mentioned in the caselets as a sample. In the third part, some critical evaluate operational IT organizations and their processes against the studied models would be listed and analyzed. In the last part, the recommendations and analysis of my own would be given against those organizations (caselets) which have some problems and current issues arising from the implementation of the IT framework.

Definitions............................................................................................................................................... 1 Cloud Computing ................................................................................................................................. 1 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) ..................................................................................................... 2 Cloud Computing for Enterprise Resource Planning ................................................................................. 2 Cloud Architecture Foundation

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a business management software that allows an organisation to integrate data across all of their applications. This assists them to manage the business process and automate the functions related to technology. (Motiwalla et. al., 2012) On-premises was the only ERP deployment method until cloud ERP came along. On-premises deployment methods are internally hosted and maintained by the company. They involve a high initial investment, if the organisation doesn’t have an IT department or IT experts. They have to invest money for IT departments/staff training, and maintaining the ERP system, which includes hardware, servers, and networks. When an ERP upgrade comes, IT department has to redeploy their ERP according to their previous customisation. This process is time consuming and requires a hugheffort, if the upgradeto the ERP is to be successful. Because of these reasons, most Small and

As a medium sized company who wishes to enhance their e-business presence by incorporating an online Business-to-Consumer (B2C) model that sell its products directly to the consumer (Baltzan, pp. 207, 2015) and aligning the right information systems and technology to their overall business strategy is vital to their success. The business plan recommended by the company is to implement a cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution that supports and enhances their current information systems and technology (IS&T) requirements. By outsourcing the IS&T to a web-based company, it will greatly reduce the associated costs and simplify the implementation than the creation of a local system.

Telecommunication industry is growing rapidly and currently United Enterprises representing the major part of Australia and Asian Pacific market. For continues business improvement need better services delivery which based on United Enterprises IT infrastructure. Currently United Enterprises running IT infrastructure that was end of life , and no longer be eligible for maintenance support by the hardware vendors, and it could be the high risk that if a failure happen desktop hardware and associated software application being completely unavailable for that extend period of time and possibly very high emergency additional cost .considered these IT issues recently United Enterprises CEO delivered the new strategy plan .which clearly identified the IT infrastructure issues. In strategy plan 2014-2015 outlines the IT infrastructure issues and aimed to improve the services delivery ,United enterprises will improve the IT operations and enhance the work efficiency through improve the operation in certain areas of Information technology ,under this plan they are interested to upgrade all the desktop hardware

Information Technologies (IT) have become an integral part of the organizational infrastructure of most knowledge-intensive organisations in any sectors and countries. Traditionally, IT resources are internally hosted and maintained by user organizations. However, accompanied with continuous business and technology evolution, modern organizations are supported by an increasing number of IT applications and an ever sophisticated IT infrastructure. This increasing amount of internal IT facilities and resources has now become very costly and time-consuming for companies to maintain. Consequently, and also owing to the global economic crisis started in 2008, organizations nowadays are often facing the dilemma to remain high usage of advanced IT applications to sustain competitiveness on the one hand, and to substantially reduce their IT operation and maintenance costs on the other hand. With the development of new IT and web technologies, cloud computing emerges in recent years as a solution to this IT dilemma.

Various cloud ERPs available in the market were analyzed and compared with on-premise ERP system.

-large scale shared, IT infrastructure is available over the internet and it is transforming the way corporate IT services are delivered and managed. In this report the focus is based on ERP systems and the result of this report are intended to facilitate a more detailed understanding of the recent transformation in the whole process as compare to contemporary organisations, then it will further discuss the techniques which are adding value to the value chain with the help of Enterprise resource planning.

ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) is a business process managing software which is developed from MRP (Material Requirement Planning). Many organizations and companies are operating ERP in order to improve their working performance, because ERP can integrate all departments of the company which can reduce the operating cost and enhance the working efficiency, ultimately affects the working output. ERP vendors are divided into three types: tier I, tier II, and tier III. Tier I vendors pays attention on serving large size business, tier II vendors serve mainly medium size companies, and tier III vendors generally focus on small size organizations. Therefore, this article will discuss three representative ERP software: SAP ERP, Cloud

ABC Technologies is in the business of providing computer hardware and networking solutions, in Sri Lanka. Over the years they have rapidly grown. Hence their financial and other reporting functions have become more and more complicated and the reporting requirements have become more demanding. To facilitate their work force with an efficient and effective reporting and analytical tool, ABC Technologies has decided to implement an ERP system via a local partner, XYZ Solutions.

The Author has analysed the company based on the information that has been gathered and aims to make an IT plan. This IT plan would include current and proposed IT systems and its processes. The new IT systems may include CRM, CPFR and web based approach for payroll management.