Question description
You are currently the Chief Information
Officer (CIO) for an innovative Internet-based company with gross revenues of
more than $35 million dollars per year. During an executive leadership meeting,
you were told that your company will be merging with a multinational company of
equal size and you will be responsible for developing a project plan to strategically
integrate all systems, including databases and infrastructure. The Chief
Executive Officer has given you sixty (60) days to deliver an information
technology project plan in anticipation of the company merger. Your company
will be expanding from one (1) floor to three (3) floors within six (6) months.
Since this merger will be bringing two (2) fairly equal-sized companies
together under one roof, the infrastructure must be redesigned to accommodate
the increased needs. Your company currently uses operational systems and
relational databases but desires to expand into data warehousing. All
information technology (hardware and software) must be redesigned to meet
organizational needs. The solution should be implemented in either a hosted
solution, on-site solution, or a hybrid model. The CEO is expecting you to
integrate different technologies from different solution providers and
incorporate industry best practices in connection with the development of
technological systems. In addition, the CEO is extremely interested in cloud
technologies and virtualization but is leery of security issues; however, the
CEO is sure that you will implement proper security protocols. The company
currently consists of twenty five (25) employees but is expected to increase to
sixty five (65) employees when the merger is complete.
