Assignment: Enterprise System Architecture
Task 1
Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions with your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
Investigate the library and Internet for information about enterprise architectures. From your research, select an enterprise architectural model, and complete the following:
• Discuss how you can automate an existing company as well as revamp its information technology (IT) infrastructure.
• Identify positive and negative aspects of the selected model in relation to the operational health of an organization.
TASK 2
Case Study:
Problem 1
U.S. Sports Fanatics has several problems in accessing sales data effectively and in a timely fashion because of its very basic paper-based process, causing it to lose out to its competition. An information technology (IT) infrastructure evaluation has to be conducted and analyzed to evaluate the company nature of business and need for IT architecture, specifically for Sports Fanatics. Without fact-finding and statistics, the IT infrastructure will not help.
Key Assignment Overview
Enterprise System Architecture Analysis
Throughout this course, you will work on several aspects of IT resolution and revamping the enterprise system architecture (ESA) based on the organization that you have selected. The scenario company will be an example to the assignments. This course is comprised of a series of Individual Project assignments that will contribute to a Key Assignment submission at the end of the course. Each week, you will complete a part of an Enterprise System Architecture Definition Document based on your selected organization. Appropriate research should be conducted to support the development of your document, and assumptions may be made when necessary. The goal of this course is to design an Enterprise System Architecture Definition Document that would reflect an actual ESA implementation in an enterprise. You have to come up with the ESA definition.
Task
For the assignments in this course, you will be developing an Enterprise System Architecture Definition Document that documents and analyzes the enterprise architecture in the selected organization. Your first task in this process will be to select an organization to use as the basis of your research and analysis for each of the assignments in the course. You will also create the document shell for the final project deliverable that you will be working on during each unit. As you proceed through each project phase, you will add content to each section of the final document to gradually complete the final project delivery. Appropriate research should be conducted to support the development of your document, and assumptions may be made when necessary.
The overall Enterprise System Architecture Definition Document will consist of the following deliverables:
• Project Outline
• Architecture Evaluation
• Infrastructure Evaluation
• Information Infrastructure Improvements
• Online Governance Evaluation
• Implementation Manual of the IT Infrastructure
Following is the project outline for the complete deliverable:
Submit your project proposal to the instructor for approval.
• Enterprise System Architecture Definition Document shell
o Use Word
o Title Page
- Course number and name
- Project name
- Your name
- Date
o Table of Contents (TOC)
- Use an autogenerated TOC.
- This should be on a separate page.
- This should be a maximum of 3 levels deep.
- Be sure to update the fields of the TOC so that it is up-to-date before submitting your project.
o Section Headings (create each heading on a new page with "TBD" as content, except for sections listed under "New Content" below)
- Project Outline
- Architecture Evaluation
- Infrastructure Evaluation
- Information Infrastructure Improvements
- Online Governance Evaluation
- Implementation anual of the IT Infrastructure
o New Content
- Project Outline
- Provide a brief description of the organization (real or hypothetical) that will be used as the basis for the projects in the course.
- Include the company's size, location(s), and other pertinent information.
- Architecture Evaluation
- Appraise the current major systems and architecture of the chosen organization.
- Provide an overview of the enterprise architecture that is suitable for a nontechnical audience.
- The overview must identify the key areas of the organization that can benefit from the application of an enterprise architecture analysis.
- Compare and contrast at least 2 architectural models that might be suitable for your selected organization.
- Select 1 of the architectural models reviewed in the previous step as the preferred model, and justify your selection.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.