Strategic Business Information Technology

Running head: STRATEGIC BUSINESS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
STRATEGIC BUSINESS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
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Table of Contents
Introduction..............................................................................................................................................2
About the emerging technology: Cloud Computing................................................................................2
Impacts of cloud computing on Society and Industries...........................................................................5
Benefits of cloud computing in healthcare sector................................................................................6
SWOT analysis for Cloud Computing.....................................................................................................6
Internal environment analysis..................................................................................................................7
External environmental analysis..............................................................................................................7
Summary..................................................................................................................................................7
References................................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
The aim of report is to critically analyse the relationship between the organizational
competitive advantage and the information technology. The emerging chosen for performing the
strategic analysis is Cloud computing. The tools used for strategic business analysis will be utilised
and will be evaluated based on the current macro and micro business environment with the aim of
formulating them future action plans. After determining the features and the tools of strategic
business, the report will discuss about the emerging technology and the impact of these technology on
the business and information system (Foster et al. 2014). Cloud computing is a technology that
enables the computer system to share the resources with minimum effort and can share the documents
over the internet. Cloud computing has found a great importance in industry sectors like finance,
retail, healthcare and hospital. Cloud computing is one of the emerging technologies and has found a
great importance in the business world. The report will discuss about impact of cloud computing on
healthcare industry briefly. In case the patient fails to visit hospital they don’t need to spend money on
travelling to hospital they can use new devices that are manufactured by cloud. This allows the device
to transmit the condition to nearby doctors and asks for advice. These helps both patients and medical
professionals to catch dangers early. Thus it has a great importance in the sector of healthcare.
About Cloud Computing and its importance in industries
Cloud computing technology
Cloud computing technology is a shared pool of resources that helps in sharing the resources
with the people over internet. The main concept behind the technology of cloud computing is
virtualization. With the help of virtualization software physical computing device can be divided into
one or more virtual devices. Cloud computing is a computing infrastructure that offers dynamic
computing infrastructure (Dikaiakos et al. 2016). The base for these dynamic infrastructure is a

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scalable, secure, and standardized and each virtual devices are used to perform the computing tasks
separately. The features offered by cloud computing are as follows:
 The cost invested in the cloud model is less than other infrastructure. The service provider
needs to pay for only those service which they are using. Cloud computing offers architecture
that ensures pay according to the organization uses the service.
 The cloud computing enables the user to access the system irrespective of the location and the
device they are using. That is they are allowed to access the service from computer or mobile
phone.
 Easy maintenance is provided to the cloud computing applications.
 Improves the quality of service provided to the customers
 Cloud computing enables resource pooling
 Cloud computing ensures on demand self service
 Offers measured services
There are several service models offered by cloud computing. Three types of cloud models
offered are described below:
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
In this infrastructure vendor offers their clients with pay as you go access. The user can
access only the resources they want to use starting from networking, storage, servers and other
computing resources in cloud. The key features offered by IaaS includes save in the cost budget
by developing own hardware.