Application Management of Software

Looking at the requirements of Grandfield College, I have planned a solution with following steps are Step 1. Data Gathering: This task consists of the gathering of spreadsheets currently used by the software management team which includes the list of software, licensing of software, and all faculty and staff computers and what software is installed on each. Also included is a list of software requests.

The challenge is some of the past development work was done by a consultant. We have option to scale the current work which is not an industry standard and end up paying more money and band aids fixes or develop a new program that we can design and manage for our future growth knowing future growth is inevitable. The risk of continuing the current information system program is low for now, but it will be a major replacement issue for the future growth that could cost the company millions and lost business opportunities. Developing a new information system program is a risky choice from time

(2) Reliability: since the open source is distributed peer review software and often developed through collaborative that makes it to be more reliability. Also, there are many open source software that have proven to be both reliable and potent over Internet such as DNS, Apache and languages such as HTML and Perl. (3) Good business: open source software gets closest to what the user need because of competition between vendors to involved to make better capability and quality each time to meet the user needs. Thus, that would also help to drive a high return investment for investors on another economic

Application software is essential to make workers more efficient as well as maintain company information. However, determining the best software to use is often difficult. Your course readings provide an IT Performance Model to determine how software contributes to the company. What are the individual areas in this model and how would they be used to determine the type of software needed for an organization? Are there any areas that were left out and how would they be incorporated in this model?

Generally, the acquisition of a new information technology (IT) system begins with the process of surveying all of the component parts of the organization to determine what specific functions are required and expected of the new system (Halbert & Ingulli, 2009). That process distinguishes between functions that are absolute necessities and those that may be desirable and beneficial or convenient but that are not necessarily absolute requirements. More particularly, the IT acquisition team would endeavor to understand enough about each organizational component or business unit to provide guidance and to participate in a determination of what specific system features and capabilities are justified in connection with their perceived value to the users in relation to their cost and to any other considerations

New applications will utilize off-the-shelf software components that have been customized per Riordan’s specifications and further messaged to ensure that each application will integrate smoothly with all the others in order to create a single cohesive whole. Great effort will be made to ensure that the data structures used in each are consistent in order to simplify the creation of the enterprise’s database. To help facilitate this, we will create an umbrella application that will integrate each other system as a module. This umbrella application will be extendable as needed and will act as a single-launch point for the various systems utilized by Riordan. We will also be working closely with Riordan’s IT department to develop a bridge that will enable them to easily port their existing databases into the new one automatically.

Beside these software I would suggest many more that can be integrated later on in our system as the company and business is growing. Those application are:

Sacks, M. (2015). Competition Between Open Source and Proprietary Software: Strategies for Survival. Journal Of Management Information Systems, 32(3), 268-295.

Requirements gaps: Making sure that the business is meeting its needs financially enough to use the software and if the software will increase profits.

Reliance on open source software could also limit the organization from choosing the best software for a given application. For a company that seeks to be a market leader, not being able to use the best software resources available to support the business side of the company is not ideal.

The description of the requirement is very important in the process of acquiring an information system, stating of sections it intends to function, opportunities and problems it may arise during adoption stage (Bernroider, 2008). The description is as important

If this is the case, then why would a company choose proprietary software when even its own developers are starting to realize that they themselves may benefit more from buying into the open source model?

Anderson (2014) said “ERP implementations rarely fail in formulation; however, they frequently fail in implementation.” It does not in with just purchasing an ERP system. A well designed implementation plan is the company’s ticket to success. A well designed implementation plan addresses all potential bottlenecks like execution problems such as lack of training, attitude and participation of the entire workforce from leaders to staff, and member selection for the whole ERP project implementation team. An ERP project is

A Report submitted to Prof. J.M. Shah for the partial fulfillment of the requirements for the subject Information Systems for Management under NMIMS University

In this venture our gathering will going to cover an orchestrating, organization and documentation of IT related venture for the association which is known as iFORM. This association regularly give online versatile organizations to their customers. Our gathering will work in the information structure division of the association as we are procured as a Business specialist for the association. When we are surveying customer organizations of the association we found that present Software (CRM) of the association is not prepared to full fill each one of the necessities of the association.