Global Information System Strategy: Kathmandu Retailer

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Global Information System Strategy: Kathmandu Retailer
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction............................................................................................................................2
2. IT Infrastructure as well as Emerging Technologies with Management Issues.....................3
2.1 Description of Current IT Infrastructure of Kathmandu Retailer....................................3
2.2 Identification of Challenges and Issues faced by Company for their Information
Technology Infrastructure Management................................................................................5
2.3 Discussion and Proper Analysis of Recent Emerging Strategies with Proper Reasoning
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2.4 Critical Reflection over the Challenges and Issues for Successful IT Infrastructure
Management with the Emerging Technology........................................................................8
3. Background of Big Data and Recommended Strategy for Kathmandu...............................10
3.1 Defining Big Data..........................................................................................................10
3.2 Potential of the Big Data................................................................................................10
3.3 Using Big Data in the Businesses..................................................................................11
3.4 Opportunities as well as Advantages from the Big Data...............................................11
3.5 Drawbacks and Problems of the Big Data.....................................................................12
3.6 Future of the Big Data and the Next Steps to Take Big Data Benefits..........................13
3.7 Detailed Recommendation of Big Data Strategy...........................................................13
4. Conclusion............................................................................................................................14
References................................................................................................................................16

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1. Introduction
An important and extremely popular or famous transnational retail stores chain, which
is subsequently responsible to sell several types of equipment as well as adventure apparel or
even travel of the UK or United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia is known as
Kathmandu Holdings Limited. This specific company is termed as the principal retail of
cloths and it eventually consists of more than 163 stores. Kathmandu Holdings Ltd was being
founded by two entrepreneurs, John Pawson and Jan Cameron during the year of 1987 only
after properly following the sales of the ALP Sports Cloth label (Kathmandu.co.nz. 2019).
Within the respective year, 1992, they decided to establish significant strong operations for
the target audiences of Australia and hence they again entered retail market place in New
Zealand. Several significant or vital services and products of Kathmandu Holdings Ltd are
accessories and gears and even outdoor or travel related apparels (Kathmandu.co.nz. 2019).
Total revenue in the last year for this particular organization was 445.35 million NZ dollars
and they are being serving their numerous customers in United Kingdom, Australia, New
Zealand, United States and Germany.
The main as well as the most noteworthy business related procedures of Kathmandu
Holdings Ltd clothing retail are the good administration, internal controls, better customer
service, good product inventories, innovative designing and store management. The
respective data about the clients, products, services, sales and revenue are eventually and
easily being handled without any kind of complexities. As Kathmandu Holdings Ltd is a
large business, some of the significant business functionalities subsequently fall outside than
their operational department. Furthermore, they also comprise of few other distinct
departments regarding information technology, accounting and finance, marketing and HR.
Within the small branches of Kathmandu, each and every position majorly fall under
significant business operations. This report will be outlining a detailed discussion about

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information technology infrastructure as well as the entire case study for Kathmandu
Holdings Ltd. Relevant details would be given in the following report.
2. IT Infrastructure as well as Emerging Technologies with Management Issues
2.1 Description of Current IT Infrastructure of Kathmandu Retailer
Infrastructure of information technology can be stated as the proper combination of
computer network, software and human resources that eventually allow any specific
organization to deliver the major IT services to their respective customers (Passey &
Samways 2016). Several components of the IT infrastructure of that organization comprise of
Internet connectivity, software, hardware and various others. Hardware is considered as one
of the most important requirement here and hence it is nearly impossible to complete any
specific IT service. The respective organization needs desktop equipment, routers, switches
and servers. The hardware can be termed as completely useless without the software and thus
it is much more important as hardware within infrastructure of IT (Ingebrigtsen et al. 2014).
This software mainly involves CRM or customer-relationship management, ERP or
enterprise resource planning as well as productivity application. Some of the most significant
applications could be easily developed by organizational IT department based on the business
requirements of organization.
The connection of Internet is extremely vital to conduct the modernized businesses
and thus the network connectivity became quite necessary to the employees, who could easily
connect through emails, access to web and even phone services through VoIP. The switches,
router and networking hub are also being set up for this particular purpose (Ancker et al.
2013). The organizational members, who are in-charge of the organizational IT
infrastructures are considered within the company. Every IT professional such as network
administrator, developer and system administrator eventually check the needs to determine