NMIMS
Global Access
School for Continuing Education (NGA-SCE)
Course: Cloud Computing
Internal Assignment Applicable for April 2022 Examination
1. You
are invited by the Government of Kazakhstan to advise on deployment of cloud
for Government-to-Citizens (G2C) services. The Government is very keen to
reduce the total cost of ownership and increase scalability of its e-governance
infrastructure. As such, it is evaluating the use of cloud and the right choice
for the deployment model.
been asked to provide a brief report explaining pros and cons of each cloud
deployment model for e-governance systems in Kazakhstan. (10 Marks)
2.
Academy Edutech is a startup being incubated at IIT Delhi. It offers K12
e-Tutoring via cloud. Being a startup, it is unable to afford its own data
center and is considering commercially available technology platforms for cloud
computing. Specifically, it is evaluating (a) the Cloud Deployment Model and
(b) Cloud Service Provider. You are invited to provide a comparison of these
choices and recommend the most suitable combination for them. You may get more
details by visiting the web site of CSP firms or you can make your own
assumptions. (10 Marks)
3. The
Top Management of Chettinad Spices is meeting to discuss their plan for a New
CRM Solution. Both the COO, Mr. Senthil and the VP of Sales, Mr. Menon are of
the strong opinion that the company should implement a Custom On-Premise CRM
solution to be developed by the company’s regular IT Partner. On the other
hand, both, Mr Naidu, the CIO and Ms Bajwa, CFO are keen to move to a cloud
Cloud-based SaaS CRM solution. The debate is getting heated as Ms Bajwa also
recalled past IT system implementation failures.
a. What
arguments can Mr. Senthil make in favor of in-house CRM implementation? (5
Marks)
b. What
arguments can Mr Naidu make in favor of a Cloud-based SaaS CRM solution? (5
Marks)
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