31266 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Application Service Provider, Systems Analysis, Software As A Service
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In this lecture we explained that the planning process for new is/it applications begins with analysis of the organisational strategic plan, because organisational strategic plan identifies the firm"s overall mission and goals. Is should support organization to reach their goals. You learnt that it steering committee (a group of managers and staff) establishes it priorities and ensures that the is function addresses the organization"s needs. We described that evaluating and justifying it investment is very important that can be done by cost benefit analysis method. It is important to see whether it is worthwhile to acquire a new system or enhance a system. Once the company has decided how much computer code to write, it must decide how to pay for it. The next decision is whether to run the application on the company"s platform or on someone else"s platform. Prewritten applications can be open-source software or they can come from a vendor.
