Project Plan

08 Aug Project Plan

ABC is a million-dollar company who started their business two years back. The company deals in data collection and analytics. In the last two years the company grows well but in the next 18 months it is expected that the company will achieve its desired growth. The information is the most important asset of company. This asset plays an important role in the organization. As the organization have to carefully deal with this asset and use this information as per the authority protocols. Furthermore, this asset is used as per the latest outlays and regulation that are designed by the authorities. With the help of well-established code of conduct, the employees have to deal with this information. The main aim of this paper is to research the current state of organization as far as business process, personnel activities, IT alignment and outsourcing activities are concerned.

Background information of the company.

The above mentioned company deals with the information in various ways. The company uses the structured information in different ways and also collects the records for further development. Moreover, under the companionship the organization deals with the basic information as diverse cost is associated with it that further accumulated the records for further changes. Thus, this association has work together in which social data is used in a helpful way for further progression of securities and operational data. Since the company is made they are in a business of collecting data that is used in a constructive way for further development of operational system securities and data. The company uses some information system that helps them in current business operations. Hence, the company is looking forward for such an information system that will handle the increasing business needs of the organization.

Details regarding the type of business that the company is engaged in.

The whole business of the company is depending on the collection of data from different sources that are used in different ways as per the specification of clients. Thus, the business of the company depends on the collection and development of data. Therefore, this process should be accurate, error free and intricate in nature. The overall business of the company is depending on web analytics. There is minimal margin of error is present in process of data. A proper full proof manner is required for the collection and analysis of data.

A description of current outsourcing and off shoring activities.

Currently, there is no outsourcing and off shoring activities of the company they are managing their business operation at their own end. But for the extended business operations and expected growth it would be a good option for a company if they outsource and offshore their business activities to different countries to get benefit from less cost would be applied form it.  In the coming 18 months the company is expected to grow their business as they anticipated therefore they must redesign their business in which they expand their business to different countries (Atkinson, 1999). As in this high technological world now a business that is operated in one country can be expanded to other countries as well in which not only they will increase their number of clients but also lessen the burden of operational cost as well. The benefit of opening the business in this region is that low wages will be given to employees as compare those who are hired in the office of developed country (Pedersen, 2010). Setting an office in India will cut the cost and save the money the main office or the regional office is the USA while the operational office where the task must be completed under the direction of our heads will be in India. In this way the company will be able to expand their business rapidly at both markets of both developed and underdeveloped countries (Marin, 2010).

Identification of current skilled information systems personnel in position and responsibilities.

Currently, the skilled information system personnel in position are four including the Chief Information Officer (CIO). Below mentioned is the hierarchy of the currently employed skilled information system personnel. Their responsibilities are mentioned below:

Chief information officer (CIO):

The responsibility of CIO is to integrate new technology that will help in data analytics. The purchase of hardware and software also takes place under his supervision. He also trains the new employees. Maintains the budget of technology department (Paz, 2018).

Chief information security officer:

His responsibility is to apply the information security plan to secure the data of company. He monitors the security of website, database and computers.

IT compliance officer:

He ensures the regulations of company compliance with the governmental regulation. He ensures that all the documented soiled be well documented and follows all the IT protocols of a company (Bido, 2015).

Privacy security professional:

He is responsible for providing access to the information to employees. He protects the IT system that includes infrastructure and other areas of information technology. He secures the assets information, customer’s data along with financial information.

The specific types of data that the company collects.

The company collects multiple types of data that ranges from a specific data to a consumer data. Other forms of data that company collects are lead generation, registration data, check page data, email, in – app messaging and newsletters (Bido, 2015). With the application of multiple application tools like funnel analytics, on site engagement analytics, customer analytics and lifecycle analytics are used to get every chunk of data from the web.

A description of the information systems that the company currently has to support the business:

Instead of SaaS, cloud computing is better to implement in the company. The server will be installed that will protect the data as it is easy for the company to secure the data. That is the main product of the company (Bido, 2015). Along with cloud computing a website will be developed as per the requirement of the company. Through this the company will easily manage the employees, customers and data.

Operational Systems, Databases and Analytics:

The application of analytics in the operational system requires a set of technologies. The dashboard, query or dill down, operating reporting and standard reporting are the main analytical technologies that are preferred to use. Operational analytics are preferable as per the business operation along with performance management technology (Marin, 2010). The in – data base analytics that can be used is database, data and warehouse. The decision service analytics are descriptive analytics, predictive analytics and optimization. As per the growth mission of the company and how they visualize their company in the next 18 months it is mandatory to create and update large amount of data in real time. To facilitate the company a number of database technologies will be used that provide support to the availability levels, concurrency, speed, data integrity and recoverability required. For operational database the following techniques can be applied.

· Sensors,

· Machine data

· Internet of things

· Media

· Application

Interfaces:

As per the business objective the preferable interface that can be applied in the company is the “IBM UNICA NETINSIGHT” through this the company will be able to collect every piece of data that is necessary for full understanding of website traffic. Furthermore, the reporting interface is well developed that is incredibly flexible form its front end and offers customizable options for different reporting formats (Paz, 2018).

Infrastructure and Security:

The following flow chart will be followed for infrastructure development and security measures.

The three types of security systems are mandatory to implement in the company depend on the importance of company data. It is important that both physically and virtually the data of the company must be protected.

System #1	Security control
Software for the security of cloud computing	IDS	Intrusion detection system helps in mitigating the risk of clod and on premises infrastructure. It is used in detecting the latest emerging threat by providing continuous threat intelligence updates.
System #2
Security measures for Web development system	OS upgrading	The OS up gradation is a running installation that timely updates the system. So that latest versions are available to employees. it will help in lowering the risk of outdated used software in development process to keep the quality of project up to the mark (Atkinson, 1999)
System # 3
	Anti-Virus	It wills denial the access of hackers to access the company’s data and internal information. The updated versions of anti-virus are important to implement that will provide timely supports.

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