...300 node network system running Windows and have 400 people working on them. The firm operates on its homegrown distribution and accounting system that runs on legacy systems. It is assumed LBS Textiles has proprietary fabric designs that are used by the weaving plants to create products, which attract all demographics in the Northeast America. Current Challenges in the market: The following challenges lurking round LBS Textiles manifest threat of existence. The price discounts offered by the weaving plants in China and other countries in the east, are attracting markets towards them causing shutdown of US weaving plants. This is affecting LBS Textiles because the market now tends to buy substitutes directly from the east and its clients are closing down their plants. LBS Textiles is confined to Northeast America and needs to expand to reach out for more weaving plants across the nation and around the globe. People in the company are still working on legacy systems and have no acquaintance with new technologies. Strategic planning: LBS Textiles’ strategy is to expand across the nation and also establish itself in the global market. The existing legacy systems hinder the ability to effectively communicate with all units and clients in the market sphere that LBS Textiles wants to expand to. Current conventional ways the firm adopts for designing and distributing the fabric to the weavers, will take longer when the span increases globally. The homegrown legacy distribution and...
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...A Sick Medicaid System August 5, 2012 Maine Department of Human Services (DHS) believed that they needed a new Medicaid system so that information could be safer, accurate, and provided more functions. This new system needed to be updated with the new HIPAA requirements. DHS managers reasoned that building a new system would be easier and less expensive to maintain than upgrading and maintaining the old system (Oz, 2009). In 2001 DHS put together a proposal. They received two offers. DHS chose the lowest bid from a company called CNSI. CNSI had no experience with a Medicaid system. When trying to build this new system there was very little communication between CNSI and the medical experts. In 2003 the new governor John Baldacci merged the Department of Behavioral and Developmental Services with the Department of Human Services in the new Department of Health and Human Services (Oz, 2009). In doing this the new system was a disaster. The claims were being denied and medical providers had to take out loans and some had to close their businesses because of no payments. DHHS fell so far behind due to the system they had to hire more experts. Instead of the system costing $15 million they had to pay out $70 million and they were six years behind. Were there any factors that contributed to the project failure which were not the fault of the project team and its leaders? There were...
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...Legacy Database Systems What is a Database? Data is collection of facts and figures which can be processed to produce information whereas a database is a collection of related data. For Example, Name of a student, age, class and the subjects can be counted as data for recording purposes. And the names, telephone numbers, and addresses of the people which have been recorded in an indexed address book or stored on a portable hard drive using software such as Microsoft Access or Excel. This collection of related data having an absolute meaning is a database. Databasе Managеmеnt Systеm: Database Management System or DBMS refers to the mechanism of storing and reclaiming users’ data with uttermost efficiency along with the sеcurity fеaturеs....
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...Embracer and Gulfstream. In addition to all these, the aerospace industry was very volatile as airline travel was subjected to economic and the socio-political conditions as well as the willingness of the public to purchase the airline tickets. Moreover regional and low-cost carriers were growing much faster than their legacy carrier counterparts. Business Problems As the company now was offering a range of products and services and had a global presence their growth by acquisition strategy was giving troubles and posing challenges for the firm. Bombardier used to inherit the data, processes and systems of each company it used to acquire which in turn created inefficiencies in data sharing and labor mobility. The cost of information systems ownership also used to get multiplied due to the increased burden of managing a number of systems. There were problems related to process delays, sequential activities, low inventory turnovers price inconsistency and supplier proliferation. The biggest issue the company was facing was of low visibility of inventory and lack of integration between its legacy systems. Problems with the Legacy Systems Bombardier Manufacturing Systems (BMS) was unable...
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...a dominant approach for dealing with legacy information system problems. In order to avoid invalidating maintenance support from the ERP vendor, most organizations reengineer their business processes in line with those implicit within the software. Some customization is required. While customization can give true organizational benefits, careful consideration is required to determine whether a customization is viable given its potential impact upon future maintenance. Introduction * Focus was upon the maintenance of legacy IS * From an IT perspective legacy IS problems are well documented * Legacy IT was never planned coherently and was designed for specific needs in specific times with no integration * Main consideration: memory optimization and processing speed * Impact upon the structure of systems, increasing maintenance problems 2. The rationale for ERP software adoption and its customization * ERP offers some benefits * Even in the light of the benefits of implementing ERP software, some organizations still choose to customize. In this paper, customization is meant to describe changes or additions to the functionality available in the standard ERP software. It does not refer to the switching on and off of functionality that is part of the blueprint of the software, sometimes referred to as software configuration. It is possible to argue that organizations may be recreating the problematic legacy conditions the ERP software was implemented...
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...projects for New York City: 1. To reduce the paperwork used handling employee benefits and job changes. 2. To save labor and IT costs for New York City. 3. To control overtime payments to the city employees and improve accountability. 4. To reduce the mismanagement of the system and to deliver the information accurately. * Objectives of NYCAPS and CityTime Projects: 1. To create a modern automatic system that is used for managing and updating the personal information for New York City’s workforce along with information of employee benefits. 2. To save millions of dollars every year for the New York City with the successful implementation of NYCAPS. 3. City time project objective is to provide an automatic payroll for employees to control and check the undeserved overtime payments to city workers, which are not possible before. * Business benefits using NYCAPS and CityTime projects: 1. They are able to reduce the labor costs by automating the system to handle employee benefits. 2. It saved the revenue of the New York City by control the overtime payments to the city employees. 3. Improves the business process and efficiency of the system 2. Evaluate the key risk factors in both projects. The key risk factors in both NYCAPS and CityTime projects are as below: NYCAPS * Lack of strong leadership: This factor tends to increase in project’s over all cost and delays in project deliverables. * Lack of Authorities...
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...autonomous nature, it would be extremely beneficial if the new system would help make operations throughout all units and geographical locations more transparent so that everyone could work toward the same goals rather than focusing only on their own internal goals. • Employee resistance – if employees are not allowed any involvement in the decision and ultimate development of any new system there will be resistance to change. How to integrate these new system(s) should be a consideration as much as what to purchase. • Available resources – Management has restricted the resources available to purchase this system. This will make it necessary to look at only what is a “must have” rather than just a “nice to have” in the system. This is where employees should be invited to register their opinions on the new software and processes. • Management position – Since management still seems to be leaning toward patching together the old systems they will need to be convinced if the decision is made to change procedures or software. Ultimately, they are the ones who will ok the spend. • Legacy systems – possible integration, data transference capabilities. We need to consider, especially if going with a new software system, if there is an easy way to transfer the accumulated data on the legacy systems. If not, a plan needs to be implemented on how to get the data into the new system. • Company geography – Any adjustments to the system or upgrades to software need to take into consideration...
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...Brookshire Grocery Company Brookshire Grocery Company has always operated under the “people first” commitment. This has helped the company to 150 supermarkets, 3 distribution centers and 13,000 employees. They have basically out grown the system they have. To support the growth the legacy system need to retire and new business process and data software needs to be pursued. They chose SAP ERP Human Capital Management software to improve their HR processes. The legacy software was not integrated to the company’s payroll so everything had to be rekeyed concerning employee’s time information. Reports were also time consuming, which required IT to compile information from spread sheets across the entire company. Payroll tied up the software for a day and benefits were just as difficult. Employee enrollment was on index cards at each location. Information was everywhere, with no way to track audit trails or processes. They had to change the whole management program through training and ongoing communication. They also had to get a dedicated team that would support the business needs, to make decisions and were also named as point of contact after going live. The reason SAP was selected because it was unified software that would integrate all of the business processes. Which this enhanced business intelligence functionality. SAP was a great commitment to the retail industry. SAP was developed due to the fact it required no additional customization. Finally it had the...
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...TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY………………………………………………….ii ISSUE IDENTIFICATION…………………………………………………1 ENVIRONMENTAL AND ROOT CAUSE….………..……………….….1 ALTERNATIVES AND OPTIONS……………………………………..…2 RECOMMENDATION …………….………………………………………3 MONITOR AND CONTROL…………………..……………………….....4 Executive Summary BAL is considering options for e-procurement and trying to decide if they need to find a new system that they can integrate with their current legacy ERP and other software. The following report will present an approach to continue with incremental changes to their current strategy. The organization has achieved much in a short period of time and I expect they can improve upon the foundation of what they have by further development of their current software and processes. Issue Identification Boeing Australia Ltd. (BAL) Need to decide if they will move forward with finding, purchasing and implanting an e-procurement system that will integrate with their current legacy systems. The current systems manage their procumbent, inventory, work in process, time capture, and finical. BAL has goals that will improve the supply chain extensively. They are looking to: reduce the amount of suppliers they have, improved relationships with their suppliers, reduce costs, reduction in rogue purchasing, and standardize best practices for procurement. BAL has already taken many steps to meet their goals and is achieving headway. By moving procurement, administration...
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... Nestle, Pella, and Volkswagen were delinquent of this. They were self-impaired by their current processes (or lack of) and legacy systems. All three recognized the opportunities by investing in a new Knowledge Management system. They would be able to integrate the current systems which would bring transparency and visibility to the entire business. Nestle had 200 operating companies and subsidiaries in 8 countries, all running independently. Redundancies such as the different coding and 29 different prices of vanilla demonstrated this and the opportunities that would benefit Nestle in becoming one highly integrated company. They wanted to leverage these and introduce economies of scale. By implementing common systems, they would create savings through volume buying and facilitate data sharing. Pella had aging, incompatible IT systems which were unreliable and becoming expensive to maintain. They desired full visibility of the company: an end-to-end integration of business processes. By replacing their incompatible legacy systems, Pella’s vision was to harmonize sales, service, and manufacturing. Integration across the entire business would allow visibility across the entire organization resulting in optimization and synchronism between the departments. Volkswagen was a global company with highly localized and departmental processes and systems. The lack of common processes and information design was impairing their ability to take full advantage of their resources in...
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...report describes the landscape of options CIOs must navigate to lead in the age of the customer — options that both simplify existing information technology (IT) services and accelerate new business technology (BT) capabilities. Focus Scarce Resources On Business Technology Initiatives Strategic business capabilities create perceived differential value in the mind of the customer. By focusing scarce BT resources on strategic capabilities, CIOs can dramatically shift the role of technology management in creating superior customer experience and delivering customer value. This is an update of a previously published report; Forrester reviews and revises it periodically for continued relevance and accuracy. Reduce Complexity By Simplifying IT Legacy In the age of the customer, business must become agile and operate at the speed of the market. To achieve agility, CIOs must remove the complexity of the underlying technology surrounding generic capabilities by engaging the executive team to compromise on generic technologies. Prepare The Technology Organization With New Skills To maximize the value the technology management team brings to the business, CIOs must help their teams develop new BT skills in order to partner with business units in creating customer value. A crucial step in this process is to shift performance metrics away from project delivery measures and toward business outcome measures. FORRESTER.COM For CIOs Emerging Business Technology...
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...applicants and thus make applying for an opening unfair to all that are not helped by it. It also helps create a wider gap in what we would want to have, equality. Instead of focusing on the helping it hides the origins of the original problem which is insufficient help to specific areas of cities, states and counties. During the year of 1978, the court case, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke was a major debate towards that of Affirmative action. Bakke was a 33 year old that had applied to UC Davis Medical School. Even though he had outstanding perquisites he was denied because of the school’s affirmative action helping minorities gain entrance even though they had lower scores. Upon learning of this Bakke decided to take the UC system to court upon which he won and was allowed attendance to the university. Traditionally, we have believed that the highest positions in society should be awarded to those who are best qualified. Rewarding excellence both seems just to the individuals in the competition and makes for efficiency. Although this may lead to lack of diversity when it comes down to the major positions such as manager, judges and other positions similar to these. However would we not want the...
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...for many professionals in the industry. One such industry professional group is of course, Daft Punk. Daft Punk formed in 1993. They are a French duo with musicians Thomas Bangalter and Guy Manuel de Homem Chirsto (Last FM 2013). According to Last Fm, Daft Punk have been considered one of the most successful electronic music collaborations of all time (LastFM, 2013). Since forming in 1993, Daft Punk has had an incredibly successful and impressive career. They have released seven albums, sixteen compilation album, one soundtrack album; three remix albums, one video album, twenty-two singles and eighteen music videos (Allmusic, NA). Albums include Homework (1997), Discovery(2001), Alive (1997), Human After All (2005), Alive (2997), Tron Legacy (2010), Random Access Memories (2013). Daft Punk has also won an incredible amount of awards over the years. Random Acess Memories won the Grammy Award for Album of the year in 2014. The track Get Lucky won the Grammy Award for Record of the year in 2014. They have won the Billboard Music Award for Top Dance/electronic music in 2014. Along with many awards, Daft Punk has toured and...
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...Stephanie Assamoi HUM305 Historic Legacy, Government, and Economic Systems Professor: Michael Rodriguez Located in Central Europe, Poland covers 312,685 square kilometers. Bordered on the north by the Baltic Sea, Russia and Lithuania, on the east by Belarus and Ukraine, on the south by Slovakia and the Czech Republic; and on the west by Germany, the country used to have for capital Cracow (Krakow) until it was moved to Warsaw (Warszawa) in 1611. Its population is about 38,463,689 million. Of this number, a large amount of people were different ethnic Poles. As well, in the world additional million of Poles live abroad. Because of their history, changes occurred over time in the ethnic policies. Similarly, the political and economic record of the country has experienced several dislocations throughout the time which help the country to identify its real image and build up its culture. Poland is one of those nations for whom individuals willfully gave their life for an independent and united Poland. Indeed, it is impossible to identify modern Poles’ ancestors because no one knows their origins. According to Biskupski (2000), their ancestors were living in a part of the Eurasian, and got separated from other Slavs. The history of the Polish state began in 956 C.E, when the Prince Mieszko I married a Bohemian princes, and accepted Christianity. Their son, Boleslaw became the first Polish king. The armies of King Boleslaw Chrobry reached Prague and Kiev, and expanded...
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...and military aircraft combined, providing products and tailored services to airlines and U.S. and allied armed forces around the world. BAL’s capabilities include rotorcraft, electronic and defense systems, missiles, satellites, launch systems and advanced information and communication systems. BAL’s reach extends to customers in more than 90 countries around the world, and they are a leading U.S. exporter in terms of sales. With corporate offices in Chicago, Boeing employs more than 159,300 people in 49 American states and 70 countries. Their enterprise also leverages on talents of hundreds of thousands more people working for Boeing suppliers worldwide. BAL however faced difficulties as it sought to upgrade its procurement systems and processes to improve operations. Russell, the new National Procurement Manager on realizing the new opportunities available through e-business technology, Russell needed to decide what BAL’s next step should be, should BAL invest in new system that would simplify procurement processes; should BAL sit on the fence? I am Russell Menere, the National Procurement Manager for Boeing Australia Limited (BAL)., my decision is to recommend that BAL pursue a cost effective e-procurement system that will interface with the legacy information technology systems that are already in place. This tool should simplify the procurement processes across the different divisions of BAL and support the complex interfaces BAL’s suppliers and customers require. Based...
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