Information System of Security Service Limited (SSL)

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Security service Limited
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Identification of Information System by SSL..................................................................................2
Lack of coherent IS strategy, construction of IS strategy and its benefits......................................3
Investment in IS...............................................................................................................................5
Location of IS function in SSL and recommendation.....................................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
Reference.........................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
The Security Service Limited Company provides services of security all throughout the
UK and it has developed itself within thirty years. Its turnover have increased up-to 17% from
the last year. However, the structure of the company is not so favourable in term of business.
This report discuss about the information system of SSL and the values that it has acquired from
its current system of information. The techniques used to evaluate the investment in the
information system for the future is also discussed briefly. The construction of a strategy that the
information system can support the business and the ways it will benefit the business as a whole.
The potentials that the strategies can bring into the business by investing into the information
system and SSL’s technology for both the perspectives of company and several divisions. The
ways in which re-engineering can maximise the potential of IT into the business is also discussed
below. The location of IS functions in SSL is discussed too. Therefore, the aim of the report is to
discuss all the aspects of IS of SSL.
Identification of Information System by SSL
The information system is designed with the purpose of collecting, storing, processing
and distributing the information. The information system in a business is set as an inter-related
systems that uses the infrastructure of the Information Technology in order to generate the
information required in the processes of business [1]. The system acquires data from relevant
resources and then manipulate them according to the needs of the business.
The security service limited have evolved itself in last thirty years. It provides security to
a large number of its audience, one of which is the services of private security all over United
Kingdom. The ranges of services that SSL provides are individual persons, public sector as well

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as the large companies [2]. The company of SSL have developed from its core services of
business and now it is associated with several companies’ security services. It has merged itself
with large companies in order to give the benefits of security services.
The values that SSL gets from IS are of secured transfer of cheques and cash within the
banks and business that is associated with high value of conveyance between the parties. The
Private transport Division planned to automate the scheduling of the vehicles along with the
security [3]. The costing of jobs are discovered by the information system that will be included.
The SSL is expected to provide support to the developing information system in the business
industry so that all the activities in the business can run smoothly in the presence of SSL.
The Home Office Service Division uses the most of the benefits of Information System
thus, the SSL have gained its highest values from this division only. The information system of
this division consists of microcomputer IBM AS/400 that can operate the software of costing and
budgeting as well as the financial ledger [4]. Several packages also run within the headquarters
which are directly linked to the AS/400. Therefore, this division processes information of the
management and financial accounting to the headquarters of SSL.
The technique of Net Present Value (NPV) can be used for assessing the Information
System for future investment as the technology is growing exponentially. Therefore, the need of
modifying the infrastructure is always present [5]. In NPV all the inflows and outflows of cash
are estimated for the present time thus, calculating the net loss or gain.
Lack of coherent IS strategy, construction of IS strategy and its benefits
The unavailability of coherent Information System by SSL is very much clear for the
company. This may affect the sustainability of the company [6]. In order to keep the business