The project involves studying the IT infrastructure of a relevant information system (IS)/ information technology (IT) used by selecting any organization of your choice locally or internationally

The idea is to investigate the selected organization using the main components of IT (Hardware, software, services, data management and networking). Infrastructure Investigation, which is in a selected industry, should be carried out by using articles, websites, books and journal papers and /or interviews. In the report, you are expected to discuss:

Project Report Structure: Part 2

Marks: 13 Marks

1. Analysis of Existing System (5 Marks).

Analyze the key problems of the existing system used by the company (2). Also, discuss the Information Systems used within the company (3) for example:

• Transaction processing systems (TPS)
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems
• Functional Area Information Systems
• Business intelligence
• DSS

(You can discuss any points that you learned in this course and it’s related to your selected organization)

2. System Evaluation (2 Marks).

Evaluate the current system that the company use (your chosen company) with one of the following options (1):

• Success
• Partial failure/partial success
• Total failure

Then, State the reasons for your choice (1)

3. Suggestions for the company (3 Marks)

Design or choose a system to help the company solve its main problems. State the following:

• The new system name (1)
• Its features (1)
• Problems that will be solved (1)

(If the system that the company uses is successful and does not need to be changed, you can mention that (1), mention its features (1), and mention the problems that it solved or prevented from happening (1).)

(You can discuss any points that you learned in this course and it’s related to your selected organization)

4. Conclusion (2 Marks).

 Summarize your report (including part 1)

5. References (1 Mark).

 Use APA referencing style format

Guidelines for the assignment:

• Make sure to include the cover page with all information required. One mark will be deducted if there is no cover page
• This is a group project (2-3 students), which is part of your course score. It requires effort, research, and critical thinking.
• Use font Times New Roman, 12 font sizes
• Use 1.5 line spacing with adjust to all paragraphs (alignment).
• Use the footer function to insert page number.
• Ensure that you follow the APA style in your project and references.
• The minimum number of required references is 3 for each part (1 and 2).
• Your project report length Part 1 should be between 1500 to 2200 words & Part 2 should be between 1000 to 2000 words.
• You must check the spelling and grammar mistakes before submitting the assignment.
• Up to 20% of the total grade will be deducted for providing a poor structure of assignment (Structure includes these elements paper style, free of spelling and grammar mistakes, referencing and word count).
• Assignment must be in Word format only NO PDF
• Your file should be saved as Word doc [Example]: [Your Name] [CRN] MIS201 – Project Assignment Part 1.doc

Useful links:

• http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/studentservices/documents/planning-and-preparing-to-write-assignments.pdf
• APA reference system https://student.unsw.edu.au/apa
• About plagiarism http://wts.indiana.edu/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml
• About plagiarism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism