Analyzing the Business Case

Red Star College is a private school in a small California town.  They have an outdated IT system which was implemented in 1995. For example, the collegeàstudent database, class scheduling, registration system, HR and all other system were in sperate buildings and on different operating systems. The graduated studentàrecords system is still on paper based (manual). The school has not centralized IT management system.  And, collegeàwebsite and social network are all very old and not meeting the needs of the current student and faculty. Therefore, one of the problems that happens is miss-calculation of the student grades (wrong transcripts) and very slow response to transcript requests.

QUESTION 1: The college has outgrown its computerized system and is considering a NEW SYSTEM. The college president, has asked you to list the reasons for this IT project. Why do you think there is a need for new IT system?

QUESTION 2: You will be preparing the list of IT changes to save the college. Make a list of IT related changes (upgrades or new purchases) and match them with the importance weight. Prepare the list of changes needed and assign a relative weight to each reason, using a scale of 1p, low to high (where 10 means the most import IT section for the new system) 

QUESTION 3:Three applications of GIS (Geographic Information Systems).

Your paper must have three parts:

Review of source(s)

Opinion and commentary

Citations