Management Information Systems: Cloud Computing in Australia Report

This report delves into the realm of management information systems (MIS), focusing on the application of cloud computing within the Australian government and its subsidiaries. It begins by defining MIS and its role in data analysis for decision-making, then explores cloud computing, its advantages, and opportunities, such as cost reduction and scalability. The report addresses the potential threats associated with cloud adoption, including security vulnerabilities. A significant portion is dedicated to the relevance of cloud computing for Australian government organizations, highlighting the national cloud computing strategy and its impact on productivity and innovation. The report emphasizes the benefits of cloud services for small enterprises and the government's initiatives to promote cloud technology. The conclusion summarizes the key findings, emphasizing the importance of MIS and cloud computing in modern organizations.

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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
Cloud computing and their benefits, opportunities......................................................................3
Cost and threat of cloud computing.............................................................................................3
Discuss about the relevance of cloud computing to emerging, established the Australian
Government organizations and their subsidiaries........................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
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INTRODUCTION
A management information system is based on the computer system which mainly consists
of hardware as well as software that servers as backbone of organization’s operations. Generally,
MIS gather or collect the data from different online system and then analyse the information for
decision-making.
The documentation will discuss about the concept of cloud computing and their suitable
benefits, opportunities and threats within organization. Furthermore, it will describe the
relevance of cloud computing which are directly emerging and establishing the Australian
government enterprises and their subsidiaries.
TASK
Cloud computing and their benefit and opportunity
Cloud computing is based on the modern technology that delivery of on-demand
computing service from different applications to store and process (Abed and Chavan, 2019).
This type of technology cover a wide range of options now from the basics of storage, processing
power by using Artificial intelligence. Cloud computing also providing the consumer services
such as Gmail and cloud back-up of store photo within smartphones. It is to be consider as
default option for multiple application which increasingly offering better applications as services
over internet.
The primary advantage, benefits of cloud computing services is that provide the facility of
Australian organization to avoid the upfront cost, complexity of maintaining or owning their
entire IT infrastructure (Kamdjoug, Bawack and Tayou, 2020). In additional, it also helping for
given better benefit from handle the economic scale by delivering similar type of service to large
number of consumers.
Cloud computing plays important role in the building infrastructure because it has
increased the great opportunity of spending IT system world wold (Church, Schmidt and Ajayi,
2020 ). Means while spending on traditional approach, in-house Information system continues to
slide as computing workloads whether it is based on the public cloud services offered by private
or vendor cloud built by organization themselves.
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Cost and threat of cloud computing
Enterprises continue to develop the new application and migrate existing application in
term of cloud computing services. The Australian government has recently made cloud-adopting
a central tenant of its current infrastructure (Kamdjoug, Bawack and Tayou, 2020). When
organization that adopt the cloud service but increases the risk, threat. Usually, cloud computing
run software but increase the vulnerabilities, and adversaries which always try to exploit.
In context of cost, cloud computing may have no need to require spend large amount of
upfront capital on software as well as hardware (Kamdjoug, Bawack and Tayou, 2020). In order
to maintain the cost of entire network which including flat, monthly free. In additional, it would
require to upgrade network devices on regular basis but no need to added maximum price/cost.
Discuss about the relevance of cloud computing to emerging, established the Australian
Government organizations and their subsidiaries.
In Australia, The ICT capabilities of government agencies are increasing the pressure from
different fiscal constraints, shortage of skill and ageing assets. In this way, cloud computing
service is emerging as practical ICT in which sourcing alternative. Nowadays, Cloud service are
continuously increasing in Australia.
In 2012, Australian Government would develop the national cloud computing strategy. in
order to recognise the coordination between National Broadband Network as well as cloud
computing (Meyer, Li and Schotter, 2020). It is becoming useful for government organizations to
provide the better facilities and service of small enterprises, individuals. The primary aim of
Australian government is that when create or use world class cloud service. therefore, it has
rapidly increasing the productivity and profitability across the digital economy. Many
organizations are adopting the cloud service, they are generally increasing more productive,
innovative better and operate with agility. As a country, Australia is well placed to take more
advantage through cloud computing (Novais, Maqueira and Ortiz-Bas, 2019). Sometimes, it also
included stable socio-economic system and highly diversified the information, communication
technology sector.
At the individual level there are various government enterprises that have implemented the
innovative cloud services. Australian Smell enterprise gain more profitability through cloud
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service. The important reason for selecting the cloud service because it always support the
infrastructure which relatively increase the speed and efficiency of enterprises. After
implementing National broadband network strategy in which automatically enable the digital
economy (Novais, Maqueira and Ortiz-Bas, 2019). This type of strategy has determined the
specific goal and also setting action in order to achieve the desirable objectives. However, it
continue to evolve the market through cloud computing services. Likewise, government agencies
in Australia will continue to adapt the (NBN) strategy in response to market and also changing
modern technologies.
When emerging the cloud service in Australia whereas it is mainly focused on the
established the Australian Government organizations and their subsidiaries. As more Australian
enterprise find that cost to maintain the better in-house servers and utilize the capital
expenditure. Cloud computing can provide the better facility to minimize the storage, cost of
enterprises (Tan and et.al., 2020). That’s Australian businesses need to think about the start-up
agencies when it come under information technology. Government has taken initiative for re-
educating the business when using cloud technology that can help them keep maintain business
operation and function. It allows for wide range of operation to be agile and improve customer
services. It is an effective modern technology, without specific requirement for specialist in
particular skills.
Moreover, cloud computing has completely changing the mindset of IT team that provide
cloud offers new technique or method in protecting and monitoring the information in context of
security (Novais, Maqueira and Ortiz-Bas, 2019). In Australia, Government has tried to establish
the cloud market, which offering the better cloud service to other individual enterprise,
Australian government agencies. Therefore, it can achieve the organizational goal and objective.
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CONCLUSION
From above discussion, it concluded that management information system is consider as
important for organization to collect or gather large amount of data. It is mainly consists of
different hardware and software that servers as backbone of organization’s operations. It has
summarised about the concept of cloud computing and their suitable benefits, opportunities and
threats within organization. It can be determined the specific relevance of cloud computing
which are directly emerging or establishing the Australian government enterprises and their
subsidiaries.
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REFERENCES
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Meyer, K.E., Li, C. and Schotter, A.P., 2020. Managing the MNE subsidiary: Advancing a multi-
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