Website Migration Project

The first versions of WWW ((what most people call “The Web”))) provide means for people around the world to exchange information between, to work together, to communicate, and to share documentation more efficiently. Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first browser (called WWW browser) and Web server in March 1991, allowing hypertext documents to be stored, fetched, and viewed. The Web can be seen as a tremendous document store where these documents (web pages) can be fetched by typing their address into a web browser. To do that, two im- portant techniques have been developed. First, a language called Hypertext Markup Languag (HTML) tells the computers how to display documents which contain texts, photos, sounds, visuals (video), and animation, interactive

The company is served by an IT infrastructure comprising of an amalgamation of off the shelf software and components and locally developed applications and middleware. The hardware infrastructure is by and large robust and capable of withstanding any current operational peaks. The infrastructure employs a high level of redundancy and good recovery and password management systems, so there is little risk of high business impact in the case of IT issues. No architecture document exists and minimal change control is executed.

Lowe’s is a home improvement warehouse that was founded in 1946 as a single store and since has grown to become the second largest in the world. As technology has evolved, Lowe’s has made many advances incorporating new systems and devices to stay competitive. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the information technology management systems used at Lowe’s. It will look at Porter’s Five Force Model, supply chain management; data base management system, five agent-based technologies, e-commerce and system development lifecycle. Furthermore, it will look at business continuity planning, emerging trends and security vulnerabilities relates to the organization to remain competitive.

This statement indicates that there should be careful and deliberate choices when choosing a web server. Many different operating systems are available to use as a webserver. One of the most popular is Linux. Linux and UNIX are very reliable when it comes to security. Versions of Linux include Red Hat, Ubuntu, CentOS and Fedora. The advantages of Linux based web servers are easily modified, stable, and secure. Red Hat Linux is currently the best with regards to performance at large scale. UNIX is also a viable option when looking for an operating system. Comparable to Linux, it’s very reliable, easy to customize and secure as well. However, its hardware requirements and cost make it difficult to make it into a web server. Microsoft Windows Server operating systems are a very popular method for an operating system. Microsoft offers different versions of its server software including the 2003, 2008 and 2012 editions. The Microsoft platform is a great choice because most of the online applications are adaptable to use on their OS. Support for Microsoft is readily available as well, making it even harder to choose another OS. The only down sides are that it is not as secure as the previously mentioned Linux platform and because Microsoft uses licensing for their OS, it can be pricey to add to use for the system.

Like many of its most profitable competitors, Alcan has grown quickly through insightful series of mergers, acquisitions and rapid product development and launch strategies throughout the major markets it sells into. The company has settled on a highly decentralized divisional business model that has to the point of the case study served them well. Their IT systems are showing signs of massive overduplication of expense, with a $500M level of spending on enterprise applications with SAP being the majority. There are further signs of massive waste in their highly diversified organizational structure. There are 400 systems in the company all dedicated to pricing, a massive duplication of costs, time and effort on the part of IT across the five divisions. There are also over 1,000 concurrent enterprise-class IT systems being used throughout the company at any point in time. Conservatively speaking the company is spending 20% of their total enterprise software spend on maintenance costs alone. This is forcing the CIO, Robert Ouelette, to re-evaluate both the organizational structure and IT systems supporting it. The goals of this analysis are to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of the existing application or IT management structure. An analysis of the proposal by Robert Ouelette is also provided along with an assessment of it potential effectiveness in solving the challenges is facing today.

$100 million web-enablement initiatives have been executed by Cisco in early 1990s. Cisco strategy was to use all standard equipment, tools, and smart group of people to apply the web-enablement. Most of the interactions were network-based and begin at home page of cisco which allowed the employees to communicate with customers, partners, and suppliers more efficiently and effectively. Applications of intranet and internet were created as a part of these initiatives. Most efficient applications will be illustrated in the following lines.

Tony’s Chips has recently been acquired by a new independent company and the organization leaders have decided to move the current website, which is hosted externally, to an internal host. The company wants the website to be redesigned so that after migration, customers will then be able to make orders online. The company’s leadership would also like to have a disaster recovery solution in place in case the main site goes down. The overall objective of the project is to plan and design a new effective platform to host the website and to efficiently transfer

1. What are the main specific functionalities and features included in an e-commerce server (e-commerce suite)?

One important part of E-Commerce is maintaining stringent site security, confidentiality for the customers, integrity, and availability, also a secure system must contain authentication verification of the user, Authorization, allowing manipulation of the resources in a specific way and Encryption for records and transactions.

An e-commerce website must have requirements such as performance, reliability, efficiency and high scalability for an efficient functioning. Out of these requirements, reliability is the most challenging requirement to be satisfied as a small outage can lead to a large financial consequences and affect the customer trust.

Tony’s Chips is a medium sized company that wants to enhance its operations by using e- commerce or what some people would say the web or Internet. The new company has set its sights on moving the current system from an externally hosted website to one that is hosted internally. Furthermore, the site will be redesigned so that customers will be able to place orders through the website and have them delivered as before. The design of the new system will be able to provide more data storage, faster retrieval, better security features and recovery solutions in the event that the website

The company would like to move its current setup from an externally hosted website to an internally hosted system. The website will be designed so that customers can place orders through the website and have products delivered to them. The system design will provide increased data storage, faster retrieval and better security features and recovery solutions should any problems arise with the website. The first part of the project will be to discuss what is needed to build the website architecture, we will then move on to the steps needed move the

The Case for this module centers on an organization implementing a new computer-based information processing system. Thousands of organizations go through the same kind of process every day—you yourself may have been involved in one or more such "technology transformations." Despite this body of experience; the advice of thousands of consultants, researchers, and computer gurus; and the leverage of multibillion-dollar corporations such as Microsoft, Google, and Oracle; a large proportion of these

It might not be in the retailer’s best interest to perform such upgrade, as the new system will replace three of the existing legacy systems in terms of ordering and fulfillment. The IS department will perceive such upgrade as a radical move and is expected to show high resistance in response to it. Even though Zara has a decentralized decision making process, the retailer’s IS department exercises absolute autonomy on the IT infrastructure and design. The fact that “only one person had left the department” in the past 10 years further confirms that the retailer is suffering from cognitive and action inertia, and thus creating a huge barrier for such

Many organizations industriously look for the opportunity to gain the competitive advantages in their industries. One of the opportunities that frequently used by the organization is the implementation of e-commerce. Thus, the e-commerce and the online sale transaction become popular in each industry. E-commerce provides many benefits, such as the saving of shopping time, the cost savings, convenience, and free from geographical constraints.