Enterprise Planning and Implementation: Bristol Paints Cloud Computing

This report provides a detailed analysis of enterprise planning and cloud computing implementation for Bristol Paints. It begins with an executive summary highlighting the benefits of cloud computing, such as cost reduction and increased efficiency. The report justifies the solution design, focusing on the strategic approach to cloud computing, including timing, triggers, financial impacts, and organizational capabilities. It explores the customer journey, information architecture, and technology architecture, along with sequencing of activities and critical success factors. The integration of cloud computing with business strategies, internal and external change assessments, and pre- and post-implementation strategies are discussed, including cost analysis and risk assessment. The report also covers the implementation of cloud computing, emphasizing project definition, platform selection, service level agreements, and exit strategies. The conclusion summarizes the key findings and recommendations for Bristol Paints, emphasizing the benefits of cloud computing for improved business operations.

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Table of Contents
Executive Summary.........................................................................................................................2
Justification and Description of Solution Design............................................................................2
Description Strategies of Journey of Customer of Bristol Paints....................................................3
A Strategic Approach to Cloud Computing.....................................................................................3
Justification and Description of Information Architecture..............................................................6
Technology Architecture.................................................................................................................6
Sequencing of Activities..................................................................................................................7
Refine list of Critical Success Factors.............................................................................................8
Integration of Strategic Cloud Computing and Business Strategies............................................8
Internal Change Assessments and Influencers................................................................................8
External Change Assessments and Influencers...............................................................................9
Pre-Implementation Strategies and Plan..........................................................................................9
Implementation of Cloud Computing in Bristol Paints:................................................................11
Post Implementation Strategies and Plan......................................................................................12
Recommendations..........................................................................................................................12
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

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Executive Summary
Cloud computing involves making use of resources of computer which are delivered like a
service on network. At present, cloud computing creates much hype and excitement. It is scary as
well as promising. In past few years, the concept of fixed computing is growing from the concept
of promising business to the fastest and efficiently growing part and segment of IT industry.
Presently, the companies which were hit by recession increasingly realized that by simply
tapping on to cloud, they are able to earn access fast to application of best-of-breed business and
boost drastically their resources of infrastructure at almost nil cost (Kim, et al., 2011).
Justification and Description of Solution Design
When Bristol Paints wants to use a collaborative solution which is cloud based, it is looking to
lower its investment in Information Technology and make possible a quicker time for marketing
its solution. The company wants to increase the efficiency and productivity of its employees by
making use of these technologies.
There are many benefits which the Cloud based Computing can provide to Bristol Paints as there
is huge cost which the company is bearing in the form of maintenance and support of the ERP
solution.

Timing and triggers Organisational capability
Business
needs Enterprise architecture
Change managementFinancial impacts
Cloud
opportunities
and risks
Governance Security
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Description Strategies of Journey of Customer of Bristol Paints
A Strategic Approach to Cloud Computing
Figure 1 a Strategic Approach to Cloud Computing
To establish the Strategic Direction, the following steps need to be taken:
Assessment of appropriateness against needs of business: Since beginning, the Cloud
computing has evolved and expanded to biggest shift in paradigm of age of computers (Kim, et
al., 2013). Instead to require million dollars of investment in upfront capital, like in Bristol paints
which bears high cost in the form of maintenance and support from the skills which the company
is not possessing in-house, it is possible to conduct similar activity with few clicks of mouse and
with credit card to billion dollar and globalized enterprise which has immediate accessibility to
every capacity of computing which it demands and need.

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Consideration of Triggers and Timings: As cloud services market has developed, it is well
deployed like utility for servers and storage. Application of cloud based strategy in Bristol Paints
involves various advantages like making IT department in Bristol paints free from huge burden
of operating and building data centers.
Consideration of Financial Impacts: With appropriate processes for governance in Bristol
Paints, favoring cloud based computing solutions over interiorly developed software aids Bristol
paints to become self-sufficient which reduce demand and also free up the additional resources
for working over high values and more complex initiatives (Krutz, et al., 2010).
Consideration of Organizational Capability: A lot of initial investment done for cloud is being
driven off by tactical strengths and opportunities and economics.
Management of Change: With a lot of organizations in consistent pressure for cutting costs as
well as improving efficiencies of operations, spinning new applications over cloud infrastructure
and moving the workload has become a quick fix.
Reviewing of Governance Process: Simultaneously, software vendors in Bristol Paints have
made quick pivot for embracing cloud based models over approach of traditional licensing which
forces various businesses for going along in ride.
Many researchers and organizations have defined architecture of cloud computing. The complete
system is divided in core management and stack. In core stack, three layers are there:
Application, Platform and Resource. Resource layer is infrastructure layer that is made up of
networking and storage resources, virtualized and physical computing. Platform layer is very
complex part that is divided in various sub layers. A framework for cutting manages task

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scheduling and transaction dispatching (Kim, et al., 2011). The cloud Architecture for Bristol
Paints is depicted below:
Figure 2 Cloud Architecture
Justification and Description of Information Architecture
Various enabling technologies gives contribution in cloud computing and many high-tech
techniques and methods are recognized:
Virtualization technology: it makes partition in hardware and also provide salable and flexible
platform for computing. Techniques of virtual machine like Xen3 and VMware2 provide
virtualized infrastructure of IT on demand (Low, et al., 2011).

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Technology Architecture
VMware software offers virtualized hardware set to system of guest operations. Xen is
Hypervisor which provides services which allow a lot of systems of computer operations for
executing concurrently on same hardware of computer. Virtual private network is private
network of computer which interconnects geographically dispersed networks via infrastructure of
public communication which is used to describe functionality which is offered by web service.
SOAP is like a protocol to exchange structured information while implementing web based
services in network of computers (Pearson, et al., 2009). Cloud Computing services in nature are
Web applications which render desirable computing services in Bristol paints on demand. It is
thus a natural technical evolution that the Cloud Computing adopts the Web 2.0 technique.
Sequencing of Activities
Collaborative Solution that are cloud based will make Bristol Pants utilize the solution for phone
calls through various devices, face-to face internet protocol, conference meetings, streaming
media content an document sharing.
Globally distributed system of storage involves model of cloud storage that is backed by
providers of distributed storage like data centers and offer capacity for storage for the users for
leasing. The storage of data can be managed, merged and migrated transparently for end users.
Examples include Amazon S3 and Google File System which involves dispersed system of data
that offers data sources which is accessed in semantic way (Motahari-Nezhad, et al., 2009).

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Refine list of Critical Success Factors
Integration of Strategic Cloud Computing and Business Strategies
Strategic cloud computing planning must fit with basic strategies of business. This does not
mean a plan which encompasses each Bristol Paint level, but the system of value chain and
sustainment of business opportunities and innovation. There is a need to align the cloud services
with the business services faced by clients for completely integrating the strategic plans with
business strategies that may help to rationalize the investments in infrastructure.
Internal Change Assessments and Influencers
Cost Saving: The cloud computing involves system of pay-as-you-go structure as it is applied to
the storage space of data which is required to service the clients and stakeholders.
Security: Cloud computing’s responsibility is comparatively more effective than the traditional
in-house system in which the Bristol Paints must proportionate its efforts in the myriad of
concerns related to IT amongst which the security is the primary concern (Ross, et al., 2010).
Flexibility: The cloud computing offers various business flexibility and improved freedom
which can make sufficient difference in overall effectiveness of the Bristol Paint.
Mobility: Cloud computing offer mobile and convenient access to all the corporate data by using
devices and smartphones for better balance in work-life.
External Change Assessments and Influencers
Quality Control: In a system of cloud computing, all the documents are stored at single place
and format (Kim, et al., 2011). Every person accessing the similar information can help maintain

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the data consistency, prevention of human error and having a clear maintenance of updates or
revision.
Disaster Recovery: Services which are cloud based offers speedy recovery of data for every
emergency situations from the natural calamities to power outages. Actual sustainability
addresses the wastefulness at each Bristol Paint level and cloud computing is eco-friendly with
less footprints of carbon.
Competitive edge: The Bristol Paints who prefer to localize everything puts them at certain
disadvantage when they are compared with those who implement the system of cloud computing.
Cost Analysis of Cloud Computing
The cost calculations are done using method of present value on yearly basis the useful asset life
has been considered as 5 years and growth rate of technology to b 5 Percent. Thus present rate of
value will be: PVR= 1-(1+0.05)-5/0.05
Monthly business cost with business grid is computed by making use of following factors:
Support and maintenance cost, software cost, power cost, network cost and server cost.
In this Table the options that are selected for calculations are summarized

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Service Kind Number Cost (Monthly) ($)
IP Addresses Elastic 5 18.30
Data Transfer In/Out 2/2 TB 184.23
EBS Volumes Storage 1024 GB
Magnetic
2 102.40
Instances Linux on t2.large 2 152.26
Total Cost (Monthly) 457.19
Pre-Implementation Strategies and Plan
When Bristol Paints is planning to implement the Cloud Based technology, it must take
into consideration the following points.
 Whether the solution may scale up to meet future needs of Bristol Paints
 Whether the solution will be able to take future endeavors of Bristol Paints.
 Whether the solution is secure for Bristol Paints or not from informational theft or cyber-
attacks.
 To analyze the startup installation cost for operating such system in Bristol Paints, though
this company is already incurring huge cost in five years old technology of ERP.
 Whether the solution will positively on the resource requirement and it staffing of Bristol
paints and if downsizing will take place in any department for the convenience of this
solution.
 What all training requirement are there for this solution and how the learning curve will
be stablished in Bristol Paints.

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Defining of project: The reality is that few of the infrastructures or applications must never be
placed on cloud. Therefore, there is a need to make run check to find whether it is suitable and
appropriate for cloud.
Selection of Platform: A platform must be chosen which is safe, easy and fast for deployment.
Lao, flexible platform which horizontally scales is needed for taking the advantage and benefit of
significant features of the cloud computing. The ability for supporting future growth and
evolving modes of business (Armburst,et al., 2010).
Determination of service level agreements: it is required to be very clear with the service
provider if it comes to SLA as well as the factors which it covers.
Knowledge regarding owning of recovery: Outages will be happening. So it is necessary for
being sure in advance to identify the person who will be responsible and accountable for
recovery.
Implementation of Cloud Computing in Bristol Paints:
Assessment of Risk: The business model can aid the Bristol paints to determine the resource and
performance requirements, required measures of risk treatments and estimation of lifecycle cost.
Capturing of Requirement: The risk assessment and business model provide basis to determine
requirements and needs ad for every need, the agency must take a note of mandatory and desired
elements (Person, 2009).
Building a Business Case: Business case makes justified the suitability of cloud solution and
give reference point to re-evaluate at future point in time like changes in requirements of
business or emerging solution in the market place.

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Preparation of Exit Strategy: Exit Strategy is considered as important for cloud solution
because of documents contingency plan for Bristol Paints for migrating records to another cloud
or non-cloud solution, while maintaining the continuity in business.
Approaching the Market: Bristol Paints must determine the appropriate tool like cloud
computing, in house delivery, outsourcing, managed services for business issues to be addressed.
Selection of Provider: For any procurement, selection of CSP includes verification regarding
security and business requirements which are addressed completely in contractual agreements.
The outcome of it is on the basis of value for principals of money.
Planning for Implemenation as well as Operations: the planning which is necessary in
implementaion of cloud solution is similar to outsourcing arrangement. Brsitol Paints will need
internal project for managing the activities that are required to be competed in house (Iosup, et
al., 2010).
Post Implementation Strategies and Plan
Security must be a topmost concern and matter for Bristol Paints who consider a move to cloud.
Few companies make delay in adoption till they are confident that security solutions which are
off the premises are able to measure and scalable to defenses. At the other end, other hope that
providers are accepting the challenge.
Integration Inefficiencies: Working of new cloud systems with solutions of legacy is the key
question on top of the mind and priority for various C-suite executives and IT admins in Bristol
Paints for cloud implementation (Zia, et al., 2012).