1. Je-Kyun Kim Swapnil Patil William Lindsey Ken Brenner Sumit Gangwani Varun Jain

2.  Future IT Direction  Benefits and Issues with Direction Chose  Personnel needed to support the management and implementation of direction  Compare and Contrast to other Scenarios  Course of Action  Justification

3.  Consolidating and Centralizing computing environment ◦ Audit & consolidate applications at organization level ◦ Integrate together all present applications into a single application ◦ Consolidation of the IT architecture

4.  Consolidating and Centralizing computing environment ◦ Fusing together disparate data sources into a single source ◦ Setting up compliance departments to address issues with law and regulations ◦ Implementing security at multiple levels. (eg. Application layer, network layer, data layer, physical layer)

5.  Better service to client  Improved decision making capacity for management  Aligning technology along with the business goals  Ease of operation for IT 1.Global updates 2.Better version control  Cost Reduction 1. Labor Cost 2. Storage Cost 3. Power Cost 4. Fewer Licenses (generally) 5. Network security response time and mitigation.

6.  Security Issues ◦ Resolved by implementing security at multiple levels: application, data, network and presentation  Communication Issues ◦ Resolved by proper training  Data Availability ◦ Proper data backup and disaster recovery plan

7.  An efficient IT implementation Team 1. ERP Team 2. System integration 3. Data Integration 4. Support and Maintenance 5. Security Team  Project Management Team  Compliance Team

8.  Systematic approach towards aligning your IT infrastructure with your business goals  Utilizes IT resources more efficiently than Heterogeneous Infrastructure  Reduce errors and redundancies in business process  Easy to backup a central database rather than having discrete data sources  Cost Reductions in term of labor, storage space, floor space, power

9.  Audit the Applications, architecture and data storage  Prepare a road map for implementation  Analyze what are the business requirements of the organization and implement an ERP which will address the following ◦ Maintain a data warehouse ◦ Business Intelligence ◦ CRM ◦ Back Office Solution ◦ Security ◦ Continuous Availability

10.  Finalize the software package that will satisfy our requirements  Fuse together the data into a single data source  Testing of the new system  User Acceptance  Go Live

11.  Better decision making capability  Operational  Tactical  Strategic

12.  Maintaining focus on client needs and service delivery  Identifying and eliminating redundancies and waste and waste  Effective communication between different geographic business units

13.  Direction: Consolidating and Centralizing computing environment  Better Service & Improved Decision Making  Security Changes & Data Availability  Required Teams: ERP, System Integration, Data Integration  Utilizes IT resources more efficiently

14.  Reduce errors and redundancies in business process  Audit the applications and prepare a road map  Organize and execute business requirements and implementation  Better decision making capability & reduces redundancy

15. CRM SCM (SAP/Oracle/P eopleSoft) ERS Longitudinal View Multidimensional Aspects

16. DimensionOperationalManagerialStrategicIT Infrastructure Organizational Consolidate & Centralized Homogeneous Environment Avg Life Cycle 10- 20yrs; Handling Higher Order Information ; fewer licenses <Cost (single vendor SW & HW); >Reliability; Efficiency Processing(s ource code/size); Deployment simplicity; Security Main ability; Better Customer Service (?); Focused training needs. Heterogeneous Environment ROI 5xSW License; supports multiple missions; Better data set reporting; Separation of external & internal users; Better Response to change (code adoptability); <reliability; <maintenanc e efficiency; <compliance w/good architecture & coding practice; 3 rd party dependence; scarce In- house talent (legacy); BYOD; Geographical ly; disperse Environmental Impact Power Usage Effectivenes s= TFP/IT Equip. Power; Metric based decisions; Social sustainability ; <carbon footprint; Environment Control Protection, i.e. fire; EPA Energy Star Compliance; reg. acts; INTERGRATED

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