Name: Vishnu Sukumaran. Clientrfs #Ops Security Clearance.Government

We are undergraduate students in the course IT 396-44 Management Information Systems at Monroe College. Professor Asteria Villegas is the instructor for

The part of the job of the analyst in identifying a business need that looks interesting and enjoyable to me would be engaging the stakeholders (organization management, sponsors/champions, and system users among other stakeholders) in identifying the various business requirements. This, in my view, is one of the crucial areas because it would allow me as an analyst to understanding the state of an existing system and determine how a new system would impact on the business performance of an organization. Without a clear picture of the business requirements, there is a high likelihood that a new system would not bring the anticipated results. I would use my interviewing skills to get the different perspectives of the stakeholders as an initial step in system development. It is clear to me that interviewing, as a method of gathering business requirements, is sometimes cumbersome and time consuming. However, I am of the view that with the right skills in conducting interviews, an analyst can be able to probe deeper on issues and challenges of an existing system and the specifications that a new system is expected to meet. I would achieve this through conducting individual interviews, joint interviews as well as forming focus groups.

Smith Systems Consulting has been at the forefront of the Information Technology Services and Consulting industry since it was founded in 1984. Their driving vision has been to provide the absolute best to their customers in all aspects of services and prices at rates that are affordable. They believe they can do this because they employ the best in the industry. Their simple approach to customer service has been that if they take care of their customers and employees, then everything else will take care of itself. This straight forward approach, while packed full of energy and meaning, has proven to not be sufficient in delivering the absolute best to

Another factor to ensure success is to train the IT personnel on the system’s applications and processes. How well the IT personnel understand the systems is extremely relevant to the success of system implementation. The involvement of IT personnel, who have knowledge regarding the application requirements, increases the ability of the team to correctly and quickly specify the requirements. Experienced IT personnel on a team help ensure others understand terminology and have more of an understanding of the stakeholders needs (Havelka and Lee, April 25, 2002).

Providing consultation for new and existing programs to both Internal Business teams and external customers.

The challenge is some of the past development work was done by a consultant. We have option to scale the current work which is not an industry standard and end up paying more money and band aids fixes or develop a new program that we can design and manage for our future growth knowing future growth is inevitable. The risk of continuing the current information system program is low for now, but it will be a major replacement issue for the future growth that could cost the company millions and lost business opportunities. Developing a new information system program is a risky choice from time

Two additional pieces of information you would need to gather from the client in order to best assist him or her.

The information system’s requirements in the systems planning phase are based on a case summary, potential interview questions, and the systems analyst’s experience in systems planning. One must not only generate requirements based specifically on what users’ state they want or need. Analysts must also generate requirements based on insight into the overall organization and project goals.

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You have been hired by a medium size (approximately 200 employees) widget manufacturing company to do a complete evaluation of their computer needs and make recommendations to them about an information system to support their business. Currently several of their support departments are using manual processes and they wish to automate their accounting and human resources business processes. They also want to harness the power of the Internet in their business.

Generally, the acquisition of a new information technology (IT) system begins with the process of surveying all of the component parts of the organization to determine what specific functions are required and expected of the new system (Halbert & Ingulli, 2009). That process distinguishes between functions that are absolute necessities and those that may be desirable and beneficial or convenient but that are not necessarily absolute requirements. More particularly, the IT acquisition team would endeavor to understand enough about each organizational component or business unit to provide guidance and to participate in a determination of what specific system features and capabilities are justified in connection with their perceived value to the users in relation to their cost and to any other considerations

Transition problems: Includes having someone who will know how to operate the program in an efficient manner. Considering NetSuite’s ERP module is difficult to

The Business I am consulting for is Covenant health and their Information technology department. I will be concentrating on the help desk section within the IT department. Covenant Health a healthcare organization that employees over 12 thousand employees across 5 hospitals 10 clinics and a corporate office. The IT department is broken down into certain program and application sections as well as a help desk that is the first line of help for the end user to resolved any issues they may be having while using any of the applications when trying to treat patients. The information technology section is of high importance because it keeps patient data secure as well as keeping the Doctors and nurses on task when it comes to treating

Understanding how goals of an organization and the roles of its stakeholders affect the selection process of an information system is vital to the success of that project. To ensure the execution of this task as well as its organization, efficiency, and accuracy, key leaders join creating a team of professionals ready for implementing change (Wager, Wickham Lee, & Glaser, 2009) . Learning how to select and acquire an information system, goals that should drive it and the roles of stakeholders is imperative to keep the project from failing.

SaaS is becoming an increasingly prevalent delivery model as underlying technologies that support Web services and service-oriented architecture (SOA) mature and new developmental approaches, such as Ajax, become popular. SaaS is closely related to the ASP (application service provider) and On Demand Computing software delivery model