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Scenario: A company called Colony Nursery and Landscaping opened a new store located a few hundred miles away from its original location. The company wants to implement an award system that awards their customers with points whenever customers make a purchase, but the two stores are not able to share information. Colony Nursery and Landscaping will need to implement an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that will solve the information silo problem by collecting and making this user data available. Colony Nursery and Landscaping is hoping that by providing customers with this award system, they will be able to maintain competitive advantage. Colony Nursery and Landscaping cannot afford to purchase, develop, or maintain this system on-site, so they are investigating cloud solutions.
In addition, for many organizations, Colony Nursery and Landscaping included, information silos make it difficult to tap into needed information. Discuss whether or not the problem of information silos can be solved by using the cloud. Some organizations do not have the resources to construct or maintain their computer infrastructure, so they utilize cloud services instead to reduce costs and improve scalability. In this assignment, you will discuss whether or not the cloud offers solutions for Colony Nursery and Landscaping and identify an application that the ERP system could provide. Compose an essay that includes the elements listed below.
- Define what an information silo is.
- Explain why information silos are a problem for organizations.
- Discuss why organizations are moving to the cloud.
- Determine whether or not using cloud services, such as a cloud-based host for data storage, would solve the ERP information silo problem at Colony Nursery and Landscaping.
- Explain how using the ERP system and awards program would provide a competitive advantage for Colony Nursery and Landscaping.
- Discuss why the implementation of an ERP system might require business process reengineering for Colony Nursery and Landscaping. Be sure to explain the business processes that will be affected (e.g., the customer awards system). Use diagrams or tables as needed, but this is not required.
Your essay must be a minimum of two pages in length (not counting the title and reference pages), and it must be formatted in APA style. You should include an introduction section that gives background and context to your reader. You must use at least two scholarly resources as references. Any information from these resources must be cited and referenced in APA format.
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Introduction
Businesses have significant operations such as production, human resources
management, sale, cost management, and generation of financial reports. Therefore, many
companies adopt enterprise resource planning (ERP) to manage a more efficient set of activities
and operations. Corporates can meet their responsibility by utilizing enterprise resource
planning, enabling the measurement of key performance indicators (Meher, 2019). An Enterprise
resource planning systems consist of the application software used by business to manage
products and inventories, offer customers appropriate service, improve effective communications
with suppliers, and track customers' orders. This papers will examine whether cloud will provide
answers for Colony Nursery and Landscaping and some of the enterprise resource planning
application which will be offered.
Information Silo
Kowalski (2017) established that an information silo refers to the information
management system that cannot interact easily with other information management systems. This
incapability of interacting freely within an information silo is caused by vertical communication
aspects, making it hard for this to work with other unconnected systems. The corporate that
utilizes information silo do so since they disregard the concept and benefit of information access
and sharing as useless to personnel using different systems.
Information Silo Problem to the Organization
Information silo induces several problems for organizations. This system limits
organization departments and branches from sharing information efficiently hence hindering
corporate growth and operational efficiency. Some of the issues influenced by information silo in
an organization include firm missing opportunities, duplication of task or operation, and
nonexistence of organization team collaboration. Further, silo hampers information sharing since
the information flow up and down within a specific silo but cannot be shared with other
organization departments (Kowalski,2017). For example, suppose an organization conducts
marketing research and disseminates information with the marketing department only. In that
case, the marketing team will base its deci...
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