Green Design After several years as a successful architectural firm in Southern

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Green Design

After several years as a successful architectural firm in Southern California, Green Design decided to expand by adding two new business ventures: a civil engineering projects group, and a group for commercial building projects. As a senior systems analyst, you have been asked to study the situation and make recommendations.

Tasks

A. Should Green Design adopt ERP? Why or why not? Provide specific reasons.

B. Is the experience of other companies relevant? Use the Internet to locate a software platform that may be useful to Green Design. Give a summary of ERP solutions you find for architectural and engineering firms.

C. Should Green Design use separate portals for employees, customers, and suppliers?

D. Before selecting software and hardware for the new system, how should Green Design evaluate initial cost and total cost of ownership? What would be the main components?

Explanation / Answer

Ans:

A. ERP:

ERP is a software which is used to plan and establish the company wide strategy for using the IT. ERP specifies the requirements like hardware, environment and platfor.

Green design should adopt ERP:

1. Helps to plan and establish the company.

2. To manage the business and automate the functions related to the technologies used in the organization.

3. It provides protocols and standards of communication for the company.

4. It adds more flexibility for working as a group on projects.

5. It helps in keeping records safely such as employee records etc.

Green design should not adopt ERP

1. Buisiness Complexity.

2. Financial Constraints.

B. The experience of other company is relevant because it helps to know advantages or disadvantages, risk or profits occur when and for which technologies to be used.

Software platform that may be useful to Green Design are: Eco-design tools and methods, Cloud Computing and mobile computing.

ERP solutions for architectural and engineering firms are:

a. Customer relationships management.

b. Supply chain management

c. optimize resource deployment.

d. Planning.

e. Real time and web based reports of functionality of a firm.

C. Yes Green Design use separate portals for employees, customers, and suppliers because functionality and requirements of each are different from others.

D. Initial cost and total cost of ownership:

1. Check whether original costs are relaistic or not.

2. Check for the availability of outsourcing of resources.

3. Check for the affect of proposed project such as government or regulatory events/

4. Check for technical developments occured in the market.

5. Check for the best alternatives like in house development or choice of packages.

Main Components are:

Scalability

legacy system

security issues

corporate portals.

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