NMIMS Information Systems for Managers Assignment June 2024

Description

NMIMS Global Access
School for Continuing Education (NGA-SCE)
Course: Information Systems for Managers
Internal Assignment Applicable for April 2024 Examination
Assignment Marks: 30

Instructions:
 All Questions carry equal marks.
 All Questions are compulsory
 All answers to be explained in not more than 1000 words for question 1 and 2 and for question 3 in not more than 500 words for each subsection. Use relevant examples, illustrations as far as possible.
 All answers to be written individually. Discussion and group work is not advisable.
 Students are free to refer to any books/reference material/website/internet for attempting their assignments, but are not allowed to copy the matter as it is from the source of reference.
 Students should write the assignment in their own words. Copying of assignments from other students is not allowed
 Students should follow the following parameter for answering the assignment questions.

Q.1) Ghanshyam Das and Sons Jewellers has now its several branches across different cities in India. The Jewellers started from very small shop in Delhi and expanded their business in several years across India. Initially when they started, they have appointed different personnels to keep a track of jewelries sold, orders given and inventory required. With the expansion of business in different cities, Ghanshyam Das and Sons Jewellers are now finding it difficult to manage/ track the details at global level and to get an overview
of Jewellery details across all stores of various cities. They contacted a solution providing firm to get solution of the same and were told to shift their business to Cloud wherein, all the operations of different stores can be monitored/detailed out very easily. Discuss how migrating to Cloud will help Ghanshyam Das and Sons Jewellers to smoothen up the process of monitoring/tracking details from one location for other stores across various cities. Also, discuss which types of cloud and cloud service will be suitable or their organization. (10 marks)

Q.2) E-Commerce has gained boom more after the digital payment initiative was emphasized for usage in recent years. Most of the retailers are using these platforms to sell their products. Discuss how the retailers are getting benefitted by choosing these e-commerce platforms. Which type of sellers are being benefitted most by choosing the e-commerce platform (Explain with help of some Statistics by taking references from some E-commerce websites). Discuss your views for all the above points by choosing any one E-Commerce platform as an example. (10 marks)

Q.3) Horizon Technology is new IT Company with the motive of providing solutions to different Organisations by catering to their specific product requirements. This Company has received the Project Development Task which is not much Complex in nature and the requirements are also to some extent clear. As a new venture, this organization is not fully aware of the different vulnerabilities and threats to its data. Considering the above scenarios, discuss the following: a) What can be the various threats and vulnerabilities to the organization? What are the security measures that need to be adopted by Horizon Technology for avoiding the same? (5 marks)

b) Discuss which Software Development Life Cycle model needs to be implemented and why by Horizon Technology for development of the Project stated in the Scenario. (5 marks).