GST 5083 - INFORMATION SYSTEMS & ELECTRONIC COMMERCE

MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Malaysian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship & Business

UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA KELANTAN( UMK SARAWAK )

GROUP MEMBERS

1. Arni B. Hj. Morshidi P14D461P2. Anisah Bt Ismail P14D389P3. Syarifah Rohaya Bt Wan Idris P14D397P4. Dayang Adelina Bt Hj Abang Muan P14D394P5. Norhana Aini Bt Saini P14D398P

SHOULD BUSINESSES MOVE TO THE CLOUD?

CASE STUDY MEETING 2

Question 1•What businesses benefits do cloud computing services provide? What problems do they solve?

Question 2•What are the disadvantages of cloud computing?

QUESTIONS

Question 3•How do the concepts of capacity planning, scalability, and TCO apply to this case? Apply these concepts both to Amazon and to subscribers of its services.

Question 4•What kinds of businesses are most likely to benefit from using cloud computing? Why?

QUESTIONS

Question 1

What businesses benefits do cloud computing services provide? What problems do they solve?

BENEFITS

potential cost

savings

ease of sharing

data and applicatio

ns

quickly find the desired

information

automatic backups

reduced support

and maintenan

ce costs

improve the

efficiencies

Question 1

What businesses benefits do cloud computing services provide? What problems do they solve?

EXAMPLES SOLUTIONS

•Amazon • to get flexible computing power and data storage• helps Amazon get a large amount of computing resources• can help Amazon separate, allocate and arrange these resources• can help Amazon’s computing resources• save costs and increase profits• spend more time on other work which had more value• build a large database, and can help us to quickly find the desired information• improves the work efficiency

• Outback company • save costs and increase profits

Question 1

What businesses benefits do cloud computing services provide? What problems do they solve?

EXAMPLE SOLUTIONS

• Zynga Company • automatic backup data and transmits data• can reduce support and maintenance costs• to transfer one game’s large data is easier than using other old applications

Question 2

What are the disadvantages of cloud computing?

Reliability

user loses control over the software application and becomes dependent on the provider to maintain, update and manage If something goes wrong, the user does not have direct access to the software and must depend on the

provider to fix the problem

If the provider is unresponsive or unable to fix the problem quickly,

the user can experience significant issues

this small amount of downtime can lead to large revenue losses

for firms that need 24/7 availability

Question 2

What are the disadvantages of cloud computing?

Security

gives away private data and information, things that might be sensitive and confidential

company’s sensitive data and information will be stored on third-party servers, and

will probably have very limited knowledge or control regarding this information

make the company vulnerable to external hack

attacks and threats

very limited knowledge or control regarding this

information

Question 3

How do the concepts of capacity planning, scalability, and TCO apply to this case? Apply these concepts both to Amazon and to subscribers of its services.

Capacity Planning Scalability Total Cost Ownership

• the process of predicting when a computer hardware system becomes saturated to ensure that adequate computing resources are available for work of different priorities and that the firm has enough computing power for its current and future needs• Amazon must plan its future needs to be capable of providing sufficient computing power for both AWS and Amazon retail services, a lack of which will result in the a fore mentioned rejection by subscribers

• the ability of a computer, product, or system to expand to serve a large number of users without breaking down• an ability of a system, network or process to handle a growing amount of work in capable manner or its ability to be enlarged to accommodate that growth• Amazon must be able to provide its customers with services that are scalable, as it claims to do on its website

• a financial estimate intended to help buyer and owners determine the direct and indirect cost of a product or system• Amazon must provide hardware capacity planning and scalability• Amazon must bear the total TCO of its services, while Amazon is also needed to maintain the profitability of the company

Question 4

What kinds of businesses are most likely to benefit from using cloud computing? Why?

BUSINESSES BENEFITS

• Information Internet companies (Facebook, Google, Instagram, Blogspot, Ebay, etc)

• can store large information, and share the information

• Large multinational corporations • people from around the world can get a faster connection• help employees of multinational corporations to establish good communication channels and share the company's resources• saves the cost of the work and improve work efficiency