Introduction to Webb’s Stores and the Need for Cloud Computing
The Webb’s store is looking forward to synchronise their business activities by managing data centre of the offices which are geographically apart. The organization has decided to develop the cloud platform for carrying out their working activities. They are facing complexity in managing the activities performed by their large number of employees placed at two different offices.
The Webb’s store wants to change their working tactics to resolve the complexity associated with the management of employees and their activities who are geographically apart and placed in different offices. The implementation of the cloud services in the working curriculum of the enterprise is advantageous because it helps in resolving the issues related with uncertainty. The activities of the employees who are geographical apart can be synchronized with ease. It provides compatibility in fetching information from the data centre of different offices. The good and healthy relationship can be developed with the supplier by analysing the market need which in turn increases the profit of the enterprise.
The food and grocery regional office can be integrated with the with the existing business operations with the use of AWS services. The inclusion of amazon web services plays a vital role in reducing the cost associated in performing operation on different sites by integrating the services together on the single infrastructure. It helps in developing automatic portal for managing request of resources, security to the data, management of the backup data and services, monitoring of the future requirement, and others. The agility of the Webb’s store can be improved with the management of AWS services by developing the preferred infrastructure for the enterprise.
The Software As A service model is the best suitable model for the enterprise because it is looking forward for a service which is capable of managing the data centre of the geographically apart offices and integrating the activities of food and grocery regional office with the existing business operations. The reason for choosing the SAAS architecture because it is capable of providing privacy and security to the data which is going to be transmitted between different participating units, it is capable of developing disaster recovery plan, and works on managing the service level agreement for providing smooth and efficient working atmosphere for the flow of activities between the geographically apart offices on the single platform (Hoessini, 2015). The services which are provided by the SAAS cloud computing model are categorised as E-mail, collaboration between different offices, deployment of the Instant messaging system, and preparation of online documentation. The following diagram gives the clear idea about the SaaS services for the Webb’s store:
Benefits of Cloud Computing for Business Operations at Webb’s Stores
The best suitable service for the Webb’s store is the management of the intranet team sites for the working employees. It helps in providing share point sites for the working employees to maintain the customised security setting for their business operations. The focus should be given development of the interactive business intelligence system for retrieving the data from multiple data centre and managing it on the single dashboard.
- It helps in providing resources on demand to the working employees
- The cost spent on managing the resource on different offices is reduced
- The scaling of the business operations can be optimized by integrating the services of the new food regional office with the existing operational platform.
- It helps in upgrading the system according to the changing demand of the top executives for adding more business operations and activities within the working culture of the enterprise (Binz, 2015).
- No extra training and development program needed for the employees for using it.
- Retrieving the data from multiple data centre
- Development of the interactive business intelligence system
- Maintain the customised security setting for their business operations (Varia, 2010).
- Security is the major concern for the SAAS model
- The sensitivity of the information can be damaged with the inclusion of hackers for hacking the information available on the cloud.
- The regulatory compliances are not properly implemented in the SaaS architecture.
- The performance of the business activities can be affected due to the failure of the internet connection (Rao, 2013)
The best suitable service for the Webb’s store is the management of the intranet team sites for the working employees. It is better from the other services because it works perfectly with the requirement of the Webb’s store. It is capable of managing activities between the participating team members. The disadvantage of using this service is that it is difficult to develop a business intelligence system for retrieving the data from multiple data centre and managing it on the single dashboard.
The traffic analysis and management is efficiently done on the IAAS model for retrieving the information from different databases at a time (Jaiswal, 2014). The tracking of the activities can be efficiently done. No extra cost is incurred on setting the databases on the IAAS platform. The implementation of AWS services can be effectively managed on the this platform
The migration of database of Webb’s store on PAAS model helps in managing big data of the enterprise efficiently with the facility of scaling the availability of data resources (Sharman, 2014). The Hadoop can be efficiently installed on the PAAS platform which helps in managing the big data of the enterprise (Ashraf, 2014).
Model |
Advantages |
Disadvantages |
IAAS |
No extra cost is incurred on migrating the databases to the IAAS platform The expansion of the business activities can be efficiently done The activities can be strategically handled Accessing of the data can be done from anywhere and at any time. |
The privacy of the data can be damaged The latency time of some of the operation can increased |
PAAS |
It is efficient in managing customer relationship Helps in adding financial security Flow of work can efficiently managed |
Lock in the major challenge for the PAAS platform Portability of the existing application |
It is recommended that the existing business databases should be transformed on the PAAS platform because it is capable of managing the big data of the enterprise with the use of Hadoop file management system.
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