ers' is a store which mainly makes leather products such as bags and wallets. Many of their products are made to customer orders. They have a manual system now and use catalogues containing the items sold by them. Now, they are thinking of moving online to broaden their customer base and to process orders quickly and efficiently. Their customer base for the catalogue system was relatively small and geographically close to the store location. Many users of the catalogue were long time customers and found it easy and convenient. They were not comfortable moving to a different medium (online) to place orders when their existing catalogue worked effectively. This forced them to market their products on the site to a much different and expanded customer base. 1. Provide three kinds of applications that can be used by the company and briefly discuss how the applications can help this business. 2. Identify three major new information system trends that can be used by the company. 3. Name and describe the three external sources for software that can be considered by the organisation.

During the execution of each of the proposed framework solutions, you must first identify the problems and barriers that will be encountered, followed by a description of how you plan to overcome those challenges and obstructions. This must be accomplished prior to discussing how you propose to overcome these obstacles and problems. Cloud computing provides the prospect of fixing these challenges; but, is this really the case? Should you pay heed to this, or would it serve you better to disregard it?