It And The Enterprise
1. INTRODUCTION: COMPANY AND PRODUCT PRESENTATION. 3
2. PURPOSE OF THE PLAN. 3
3. STRATEGIC BUISNESS PLAN 4
4. CURRENT SYSTEMS 5
5. NEW DEVELOPMENTS 6
6. MANAGEMENT STRATEGY 7
7. IMPLEMENTATION PLAN AND BUDGET REQUIREMENTS 8
8. CONCLUSION 9
1. Introduction: company and product presentation
This document is an Information System (IS) plan, the purposes and aims of the plan will be described later, in this short introduction I will present the subjects of this IS plan: the company and its main product. For security and confidential reason both the company and the product will remained unnamed.
The company studied is an Irish software company based in Dublin; its product is a financial related software using different type of database (Oracle, SQL, Raima). The company's human resource organization has therefore two strong departments: a development team looking after the software's development and a Data team looking at the data maintenance and collection, plus the usual departments found in most software companies such as Human resources, Quality Assurance (QA), Finance and sale/marketing
The nature of the company and of its product make the IS plan an appropriate and needed project as the product - described in the "Current System" chapter is a complex system composed of many sub-systems that needs to be managed, organized, and maintained efficiently in order to meet the critical success factors of such a product.
2. Purpose of the plan
The purpose of the plan is to identify where and how IS is used within the company both in the business and the management of the company and to outline the cost and benefits of an IS where it is already in use and also the cost and benefits of integrating a new IS where not in use.
In order to analyze this we will go through the current strategic business plan, the current systems in use and the changes already...
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