Nowadays businesses encounter numerous obstacles in their organizational architectures. Antiquated legacy information systems (LIS) and shifting business activities encompass the chief motivations for organizations to modernize (Syntel, 2008). Some of the chief concerns in NASCIO’s 2008 national survey on legacy systems were restricted or unavailable software maintenance/upgrades, incapability to improve or alter applications, limited knowledge of legacy application tools, non-existent documentation, and the capacity to enrich or modify security safeguards (NASCIO, 2008). Modernizing or replacing legacy systems has given rise to a reduction of expenditures and risks. However, these benefits are not realized without the understanding and selection of an appropriate migration strategy.
There are two objectives for this research, to analyze information security risks associated with legacy systems and to assess the various types of migration strategies or systems used to modernize legacy systems. The research topics covered include an assessment of migration strategies used to modernize legacy systems, a comparison of the legacy computer and IS architectures and distributed systems at OMH with Farm Family Insurance, a taxonomy of control systems or architectures used to replace legacy systems at OMH, and the strategies used to modernize the systems by enhancing the functionality and IS.
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One of the foremost benefits of migration is that it offers the opportunity to move antiquated critical applications into modern technologies (NASCIO, 2008). Migration enriches and safeguards the long-standing investment in a business’s software infrastructure and efficiently diminishes the total cost of ownership (...
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...ges—outdated IT systems and fluctuating business processes— necessitate proactive resolution (Syntel, 2008). Migration permits the revival of current business processes presenting opportunities that current and future technologies offer (Bass, 2013). There are various migration strategies available to modernize legacy systems. These implementations require thoughtful considerations of the cost and benefit of modernizing legacy systems (Bass, 2013). Any new systems must govern process knowledge through a blending of progressive technologies, industrial domain knowledge, and Six Sigma methodologies (Torzewski, 2009). Select an open, scalable system that is completely redundant contains robust control algorithms and offers on-process upgrades to reduce downtime (Torzewski, 2009). Furthermore, the system should abide with open industry standards (Torzewski, 2009).
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST): Risk Management Guide for Information Technology Systems. Special Publication 800-30, 2002.
The 21st century has brought new challenges to manufacturing and service organizations, and one of these important challenges is that the industry is constantly changing (Maleyeff, 2012). Therefore, the systems, processes and procedures of successful businesses will be able to evolve according to the constantly changing industry needs. Six Sigma is one method being widely used by both manufacturing and service businesses today to provide a framework for continuous process improvement (Maleyeff, 2012).
Bjerke, Juel M. "Week 2 Lecture Notes - Achieving Business Process Excellence and Process Re-engineering." MFGO 601 - The Globally Integrated Manufacturing Company. 2 Nov. 2011.
The amalgamation of HomeGround and Hanover Welfare highlighted a need to adjust their Information processing procedures as employees within the NFPs were being hampered by communication constraints. The two organisations had been running separate document management processes, it was important that the new document management process was able, to not only migrate HomeGround’s existing SharePoint 2007 on-premises environment, but also to migrate content from Hanover Welfare’s legacy sources. It was also evident that the solution needed to provide their workforce of over 350 employees, access to a “single source of truth”. With the aim to allow their geographically spread workforce to access the information they require, when they need it, regardless of location.
Highly competitive environment and need of innovation, the companies are facing high pressures to innovate and improve the business process. As IT budgets are limited, process owners and IT departments need to decide how to divide their spending on efficiency and flexibility enhancing IT capabilities to optimally support the execution of business processes. The limited IT budgets put pressure on IT process owners to find the perfect mix to achieve the efficiency and flexibility to support smooth execution of business processes (Heckmann, 2015). IT departments need to find the right balance to use IT budget and decision making ability and play their role in maximizing the organization’s revenue.
Security helps the organization meet its business objectives or mission by protecting its physical and financial resources, reputation, legal position, employees, and other tangible and intangible assets through the selection and application of appropriate safeguards. Businesses should establish roles and responsibilities of all personnel and staff members. However, a Chief Information Officer should be appointed to direct an organization’s day to day management of information assets. Supporting roles are performed by the service providers and include systems operations, whose personnel design and operate the computer systems. Each team member must be held accountable in ensuring all of the rules and policies are being followed, as well as, understanding their roles, responsibilities and functions. Organizations information processing systems are vulnerable to many threats that can inflict various types of damage that can result in significant losses (Harris, 2014). Losses can come from actions from trusted employees that defraud the system, outside hackers, or from careless data entry. The major threat to information protection is error and omissions that data entry personnel, users, system operators and programmers make. To better protect business information resources, organizations should conduct a risk analysis to see what
The existing system is not an intricate mix of hardware and software and will support change. Any foreseeable concerns will arise when transitioning data, generating correct reports and customer emails, implementing proper data security measures and testing. The vendor will have a major part in providing those features and services. Financially, transitioning to a cloud-based system is best for PEP. Maintenance costs are limited as support will be given by the vendor.
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What is the worst that could happen to a large insurance and financial corporation with facilities in several states? Exploring the seven domains of a typical IT infrastructure leads to several possibilities. One possible scenario for each of the seven domains, user, workstation, LAN, LAN-to-WAN, remote access, WAN, and system/application will be explored in depth and taken to the furthest worst-case scenario.
Intro The business environment is very competitive. Consequently, companies need to offer customers efficient and reliable service. If they do not, customers will switch to more consumer efficient companies. Furthermore, as companies grow in size, it becomes harder to keep track of the growing amount of customer information. If a company does a poor job of organizing and maintaining customer records and data, it can result in problems for both the company and the consumer. This paper will focus on the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, more commonly known as 3M, and how it improved its customer service and reduced cost by improving its management information system. Sources consulted included business journals and websites with facts and case studies on 3M.
Whitman, M., & Mattord, H. (2010). Management of information security. (3rd ed., p. 6). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
Effectively integrating information technology (IT) into an organization’s business processes is critical if the organization wants to increase productivity and remain profitable. IT includes items such as the systems software, application software, computer hardware, and the networks and databases that help manage the organization’s information. When implementing quality standards and processes that are forever changing in the IT world, organizations must balance these changes while continuing to rapidly implement new systems technologies in order to stay competitive.
Technology is now central to successful businesses. It has enabled systematic storage of operational & managerial data. However, businesses face challenges with this. Each Employee working in different location has to manage individual data. Also, managing complex IT infrastructure takes away the IT staff from the important projects.
In past few years, companies and industries of various sizes have become aware that they need to improve business processes such as product development, order fulfilment, planning, distribution, and customer service. So everybody is now focusing on doing process improvement or redesigning.
The last decade can be marked as a period of significant changes in the business world. Being accustomed to utilize computers as a powerful tool with its office applications such as Microsoft Word and Excel. In the 1990s office workers first faced the opportunity to share information using the Internet (McNurlin, 2009). However, the situation became even more different with the transition to the third millennium. With a further development of information technologies, the majority of big enterprises had to reconstitute their business processes and to make the transition to the Internet economy. Enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply-chain management (SCM), customer relationship management (CRM) software and the variety of other information systems became essential components of the new economy. It can be expected, that all these complex solutions were designed to bring great benefits for different sides of the corporate activity, in particular, decisions made by top-managers are expected to become nearer to the ideal, customer service is to be improved and collaboration more prolific. Nevertheless, to ensure the desired results it should be taken into account that the key concept of these reorganizations is an information or a data, dealing with which can be a serious issue, and wide utilizing of the data warehouses in contemporary organizations confirms this fact.