Case Study: Problem 3
Every time U.S. Sports Fanatics has to update it sales database, it has to back up the database and launch a newer one on a monthly basis. The space on its disk is getting very scarce, and it requires creating a newer version of the database to start all over again. Purchasing of a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) is a possibility, and this is what U.S. Sports Fanatics is pursuing.
Assignment
The next steps in the creation of an enterprise systems architecture manual are to examine the current systems architecture, determine the strengths and weaknesses, and define improvements.
Tasks to be completed before adding the new content for Week 3:
Update the Enterprise System Architecture Definition document title page with the new date.
Update the previously completed sections based on your instructor’s feedback.
Week 3: Information Infrastructure Improvements
For this assignment, you will examine the existing systems architecture documented in the previous project, and you will document the improvements that will result in a better system.
The project deliverables are as follows:
Information Infrastructure Improvements
Systems Architecture Process Improvement
List the strengths and weaknesses for each process documented in the Content Infrastructure Evaluation section of the manual.
Document improvements for each process. The result of this step will be documentation of the new systems architecture processes.
Systems Architecture Tools Improvement
Document the improvements to the tools used to support the new systems architecture processes.
Be sure to update your table of contents before submission
Building the Foundation One Step at a Time IP3
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Building the Foundation One Step at a Time IP3
The enterprise systems architecture Sports Fanatics, LLC plays a vital role in organization operation. Thus it needs to be regularly improved to accommodate arising issues and innovations. The improvement of the enterprise system architecture begins with evaluating and assessing the existing system to determine the appropriate improvements to make. The system’s improvements need to be based on the strengths and weaknesses of the system documented in the content infrastructure evaluation section. The appropriate enterprise systems architecture improvement and updates ensure that it operates and implements operations with effectiveness and efficiency by adopting a digital architectural system.
Information Infrastructure improvements
The enterprise system architecture experiences different issues under the information infrastructure, thus adopting improvements (Ostadzadeh, Shams, and Badie, 2015). In this regard, the improvements need to ensure that the organizations move from a paper-based system to online sports retails store. The organization needs to adopt the digital process of doing business through improving its system and infrastructure. This approach will consistently increase sales and revenue, thus enhancing organizational growth.
The preliminary phase of the improvement in U.S. Sports fanatics will be the adoption of transformation that customers will appreciate and stakeholders will admire. The transformation needs to ensure that the organizational goals are attained by ensuring that the architectural system will move the ADM development effectively to create goals. The architecture project’s goals include the definition of the organizational scope, understanding of the architectural principle, development of the architectural repository, and creating the organizational website.
Products and services
U.S. Sports Fanatics has different goals and services to offer to its customers. The products involve quantifiable items placed in the market for consumption, interest, and purchase, and the product needs to be easily accessed by the customers. On the other hand, The services are unquantifiable items arising from individuals’ output in the organization to customers.
Store visits
The visit to the store ensures that a customer has an insight into products and services they need and interest that will be tracked online. Some customers will leave their contacts, ensuring that the organization has a record of customers’ things.
Shopping behavior
The customers’ shopping behavior will be established through their shopping patterns from their online purchases and searches.
Shoppers privacy
The system will ensure that the customer information is confidential, thus protecting their privacy.
Architectural vision
The organization needs to ensure that the security of the stakeholders is effectively maintained. The information gathered from the stakeholders and the customers needs to be safe.
OpenCart
The U.S. Sports Fanatics have all the merchandise online; thus, there is a need to have an OpenCart system, ensuring that the e-commerce system can be transitioned from the local store to the online store.
Business Architecture
Business risk model-The architecture needs to be protected from business objectives threats, thus ensuring that the system operates effectively and efficiently.
Law and regulation define how items are sold or returned to the organization.
Control Frameworks presents the creation of value of the organization, especially on data in the internal process.
Security Domain model takes the transfer of data to the system at all times.
Online governance evaluation
Online quality
Record the governance placed on the organization’s online quality while noting the strengths and weaknesses.
Online management
Record the governance in the organization to online management and note the strengths and weaknesses.
Online policies management
Record the online policies in the organizational management and establish the strengths and weaknesses.
Risk management
Document the management of risks in the organizational governance while noting the strengths and weaknesses.
Reference
Ostadzadeh, S. S., Shams, F., & Badie, K. (2015). An architectural model framework to improve digital ecosystems interoperability. In New trends in networking, computing, e-learning, systems sciences, and engineering (pp. 513-520). Springer, Cham.
