Title of Case: Troon Golf
Date: 10/14/2014
Name: Venkata Penmatsa
Critical Facts:
• Troon Golf is a Golf Management organization headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. It is the largest golf management company in the world and has 190 golf courses in 32 states and 32 countries. (Fortinet, 2010)
• Troon golf provides turnkey solution for technology to all aspects of the golf facility development and management. (Fortinet, 2010)
• Troon has received several awards from golf publications - Magazines such as Golf digest, Golf Magazine and golf week magazine has rated 36 of Troon golf-managed courses have received top 100 rankings. (Fortinet, 2010)
• Troon's IT infrastructure expenses were increased because of the aging of the hardware and IT managers
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They need to focus more on their Customer Service as it the major source of the income. Applications need to be developed to get feedbacks from the customers on the organization service. This will give help Troom management to take better decisions to improve their quality and in-turn to gain profits
Troon golf has to for moving to cloud computing. I feel an organization like Troon can reduce their application operation costs by moving to cloud computing. As the data and information stored is small and also most of the hardware or applications are leased or bought from outside it is expensive. If it moved to cloud computing it can save lot of money and reduce operations on the organizations.
References:
Fortinet. (2010). Troon Golf - The largest golf management company in the world . Retrieved from Fortinet: http://www.fortinet.com/sites/default/files/casestudies/Troon_Golf_CS.pdf
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