Cigna IT Business Environment Proposed Research Project Plan

Cigna IT Business Environment Proposed Research Project Plan

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Researching these individual categories separately will be easier than trying to deal with everything at one time. Note that this is just a starting point for your research. You will add many additional items under each of these major categories.

Operating Systems

Applications

Operating Systems

  • Identify the operating systems and hardware platforms found on your company’s servers and user workstations. There could be a diverse range. Why were these server operating systems chosen?
  • How many servers of each type are deployed?
  • How many workstations of each type are deployed?
  • How are security updates handled?

Applications

  • Identify mission critical server applications on which your company would depends for business to continue hour by hour. Identify second tier server applications.
  • Identify custom desktop user applications developed by your company to assist employees in their everyday tasks. Exclude COTs products like MS Office.
  • Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP): Does your company have an ERP system in place and what vendor? Example… SAP
  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Systems: Does your company have a CRM system in place and what vendor?
  • Collaboration Systems: Has your company deployed SharePoint or another collaboration tool for employees?

I have attached the approved research proposal