Unit 2 – Discussion Board (75 points)

Due: Thu, May 18

Description

Primary Discussion Response is due by Thursday (11:59:59pm Central), Peer Responses are due by Saturday (11:59:59pm Central).

Primary Task Response: 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 by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.

Story

The Education Community Services Group (ECSG) has been leading the market in educational services enrollments for the past five years. Soon, other leading educational services providers started to overtake the enrollments because of improvements made through online marketing. A study was conducted using surveys and analyses with statistics. With the demand for educational services and network administration architecture (NSA) revamping, the company found some breathing room. Now you can go to a number of satellite campuses and online portals to enroll in the educational offerings that ECSG provides. Results have been great, and the corporation has been able to lead the task of rejuvenating student enrollment.

Moral of the Story

As a company, management has to adapt to changes and competition. One vital step to improving profitability and competitiveness is to evaluate the current network administration to determine performance gaps and ensure senior management is receiving the critical information it requires to make strategic decisions. ECSG, realizing that it is losing market share to other providers of educational services, has determined that it needs a more robust network administration architecture to close the gap with its competitors. If you have that agility and resiliency, you can survive as a company in the world of constant competition. As the old saying goes, “If you cannot beat them, then join them.” That is what the corporation did. The chief executive officer (CEO) made sure that he shares the online market as well.

The example companies, organizations, products, people, and events depicted herein are fictitious. No association with any real company, organization, product, person, or event is intended or should be inferred.

Assignment Details

The story that you just read shows how difficult it can be to get started with formal enterprise system architecture, particularly if very little attention was given to enterprise system architecture (ESA) and documentation of content in an organization. For this discussion, research the library and Internet for information about the evaluation of enterprise systems architecture in organizations, and then respond to the difficulties faced in the story and how some of these difficulties were overcome.

· Discuss how you can automate existing company network administration processes as well as revamp the information technology (IT) infrastructure.

· Identify positive and negative aspects of the selected processes in relation to the operational health of the organization.

· Select 1 of the most likely problem areas of an organization’s network administration infrastructure, and discuss how the difficulties could be overcome.

Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 2 of your fellow classmates with at least a 100-word reply about their Primary Task Response regarding items you found to be compelling and enlightening. To help you with your discussion, please consider the following questions:

· What did you learn from your classmate’s posting?

· What additional questions do you have after reading the posting?

· What clarification do you need regarding the posting?

· What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates’ postings?

For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web resources, and all course materials.