Cloud Computing Implementation: A Case Study on Regional Gardens' OAS

This case study analyzes the implementation of cloud computing solutions for Regional Gardens, focusing on improving their office automation system. It evaluates different approaches such as prototyping and pilot programs for establishing an effective office automation system, ultimately recommending the prototyping approach for its iterative design and user-friendly nature. The study also compares Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS), justifying the selection of PaaS for its ability to facilitate software development without the complexities of managing servers and databases. Furthermore, it differentiates between IaaS, PaaS, and Software as a Service (SaaS), suggesting the most suitable model for Regional Gardens and addressing potential challenges they might face after adoption. The analysis emphasizes the benefits of cloud computing in terms of cost savings, security, and uptime, providing a comprehensive roadmap for Regional Gardens' successful transition to a cloud-based infrastructure.

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Cloud Computing: Case study of Regional Gardens
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Table of Contents
Task 1: Power Point Presentation....................................................................................................2
Task 2: Discussion on the best way to provide office automation system.....................................9
2.1Two different approaches to provide office automation system...........................................9
2.2 Outlining the major benefits and issues with each of the approach..................................10
2.2.1 Benefits and issues of Prototyping approach:..............................................................10
2.2.2 Benefits and issues of pilot approach...........................................................................11
2.3 Summary to recommend the most suitable approach.......................................................11
Task 3: Migration from Web infrastructure to public cloud.........................................................12
3.1 Difference between infrastructure given by IaaS and PaaS................................................12
3.2 Justification for selection the service provider....................................................................13
Task 4: Comparison between whether to use PaaS or SaaS........................................................14
4.1 Major differences between IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.................................................................14
4.2 Recommendation for the most suitable model..................................................................17
4.3 Most likely problems of faced by Regional Garden after the adoption..............................17
References.....................................................................................................................................19

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Task 2: Discussion on the best way to provide office automation system
2.1Two different approaches to provide office automation system
In this recent technology era, the enhancing scale of production as well as degree for
the specialization within the enterprises has lead to a significant expansion in this amount of
data required for the successful management implementation. Office Automation System
(OAS) has currently become one of the most widely used technologies that offer all the
employees to access information from a service provider. It helps to deliver possible framework
to the employees so that they can easily access information from the server. In order to
establish office automation system in any business organization there are different approaches
those are needed to be followed by the office owners (Abdelmaboud et al., 2015). Based on the
details of functional requirements the most suitable approach for adopting office automation
system is needed to be identified by the executives of Regional Gardens.
There are four genera processes such as Ad hoc, structured, Pilot and prototype those
help to design and implement office automation system in the business organizations (Haimes
et al., 2015). However, appropriate circumstances are needed so that it can combine and
tailored for meeting the organizational needs. Among four of these knowledge the most
suitable approaches are pilot and prototype. The benefits and issues of these approaches are
elaborated in the below section.

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2.2 Outlining the major benefits and issues with each of the approach
2.2.1 Benefits and issues of Prototyping approach:
Benefits
With the help of prototyping the project requirements and the project specifications can
eventually improved by the project executives. System modification and platform migration
costs more than new system implementation. Thus, it can be said that’s prototyping helps to
reduce the overall cost and the overall time for the implementation of new office automation
system. Prototyping approach allows the user to become more involve with the system (Fehling
et al., 2014). More involvement of the users to these new types of system also improves the
performance of the company. This approach is easy to adopt and due to its compatible nature it
helps to avoid organizational misunderstandings as well as miscommunication among the
project manger and project team members.
Issues
Besides these advantages or benefits many issues are also associated to it these those
interrupt the operational and functional activates of office automation system even after its
implementation. During analysis and completion of the entire project the prototype model
might distract both the developers. Another issue associated to it is incomplete specification.
Thus it can be said that, due to incomplete project specification the final project outcome may
fail to deliver a better solution to the project staffs (Bokhari, Azam & Abbas, 2015). Not only
these but also there are some cases where, prototype approach stands as expensive and time

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taken as well. Thus, usage of this approach may interrupt the prototype design before
implementation.
2.2.2 Benefits and issues of pilot approach
Benefits
This particular approach helps to build high level experience for different new programs
and also helps to detect challenges at the very initial phase of project development. Pilot
programming helps the users to gather and learn professional knowledge from the documents.
In addition to this, the already planned process can also be tested accordingly and effectively.
There are any factors that prevent the system to reach the expected speed rather it can be said
that this approach helps to reveal all factors which slow down the developed system.
Issues
If considering the approach named as Pilot programming then it can be said that this
approach may signal the sense of doubt (Armstrong et al., 2015). Pilot programming fails to
make discrimination between the data. During the implementation of new office automation
system sometimes this may happen that old data are needed and due to lack of discrimination
power or mixed data the developers may become confuse about the new data and the old
data.
2.3 Summary to recommend the most suitable approach
After analyzing two of these approaches for implementing the new office automation
system it can be said that, for Regional garden the most suitable approach is Prototyping. This is