A department store plans to upgrade its IT infrastructure to support a new order

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A department store plans to upgrade its IT infrastructure to support a new order-processing application with rich features. The store currently uses eight stand-alone computers when customers check out. The specifications of these computers are:

Quad core processors

Minimum of one terabyte hard drives

Minimum of 5 GB RAM

Windows XP, Linux, or Mac OSX

The management of the store wants to upgrade four of the computers and use them to process client orders. The initial study done by the management reveals that the computers will perform the following tasks:

Run an order-processing application that requires a multiprocessing operating system. The application will take orders from customers over the Internet, process the orders, and create invoices.

Communicate with customers using e-mail to resolve customer queries.

Store customer data on the local computer. The store will use this data to promote new products.

The department store needs you to upgrade the four computers. Find the necessary equipment from online vendors to upgrade the computers.

Your report will include a listing of what features need to be upgraded or added and your justification, an estimated cost report for the upgrades as well as a list of hardware/software needed. These can include external peripheral devices. Make sure to include the list of vendors that you used as references and that your report reflects due diligence in addressing the assignment statement.

Explanation / Answer

Order-processing application:

1. SAP is one of the leading ERP Tool which help the business to run very smoothly and make our work very easy.

2. As coustmer want to upgrade their IT infrastructure I recommend you to use SAP software.

3. SAP Contains rich set of modules, SAP by itself will take care of Sale and distribution, Material management, Finance of the company etc..

4. Costing of SAP is very high, but it offer all kind of support 24/7 365 days.

5. SAP will release new versions very year we can upgrade based on that.

6. Software required for this is we need to buy licensed SAP Software.

7. Hardware required

alteast 32 GB RAM.

12 multi-core-processor

2-TB Hard disk

8. Operating system required in Linux or windows.

9. Software and hardware will be cost but it help business to run smoothly.

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