IT Infrastructure Management: Challenging Use of Internet in Business

This report delves into the multifaceted realm of IT infrastructure management, examining its critical role in modern business operations. It explores key concepts such as Just-in-Time delivery, e-commerce, SaaS, strategic planning, supply chain systems, DSS, cloud infrastructure, Web 2.0, Extranet, and big data analytics, illustrating their impact on business efficiency and decision-making. The report further analyzes the key elements of data mining, highlighting its application in extracting valuable insights from large datasets. Through case studies, it investigates the challenges faced by organizations like Liberty Wines and FinCEN, emphasizing the importance of robust IT infrastructure in inventory management, order processing, and financial crime detection. The analysis underscores how IT infrastructure upgrades, including server virtualization and data analytics, can enhance operational capabilities, improve customer service, and strengthen security measures. The report highlights the role of data analytics in real-time crime detection and the significance of standardization and validation of data, which are essential for identifying patterns and relationships, thereby disrupting criminal activities.

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Table of Contents
Answer 1:.........................................................................................................................................2
Just-in-Time delivery:..................................................................................................................2
E-Commerce:...............................................................................................................................2
SaaS:............................................................................................................................................2
Strategic Planning:.......................................................................................................................2
Supply Chain System:..................................................................................................................2
DSS:.............................................................................................................................................3
Cloud infrastructure:....................................................................................................................3
Web 2:..........................................................................................................................................3
Extranet:.......................................................................................................................................3
Big data analytics:........................................................................................................................4
Answer 2:.........................................................................................................................................4
Answer 3:.........................................................................................................................................4
Answer 4:.........................................................................................................................................5
Answer 5:.........................................................................................................................................6
References:......................................................................................................................................9

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Answer 1:
Just-in-Time delivery:
It is an inventory strategy in the companies employ in order to increase the efficiency and
decrease wastes by receiving goods only, as they are need in the process of the production, which
results in reducing the inventory costs.
E-Commerce:
Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce) is a process by which the customers and the
businesses involve in buying and selling products or services through electronic medium or
internet (Huang & Benyoucef, 2013).
SaaS:
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is a model of software delivery and licensing for the
organizations, which have implemented cloud computing in their system. In this service,
software is licensed based on subscription.
Strategic Planning:
It is a process of the organization in order to define the direction or the strategy for the
organization including the making decisions on the allocation of resources to pursue the strategy.
It can also be applicable in controlling the mechanisms for guiding on implementing the strategy
or strategies.

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Supply Chain System:
A supply chain system in the organization means the involvement of the organizations,
activities, people, resources, information, and other objectives during the process of products or
services delivery to the customers (Chen & Fen, 2012).
DSS:
Decision Support System (DSS) is a computerized information system that is used to
support the decision-making in the business or an organization. A DSS enables users sift
through, analyze massive reams of data, and lets an organization to compile the information,
which can be used to solve raised problems and make the better decisions for those problems
(Ernvall et al., 2013).
Cloud infrastructure:
It refers to the components of software and hardware like storage, servers, virtualization
and network software that can be helpful in supporting the requirements in computing of Cloud
Computing model. An abstraction layer, which virtualizes the resources, and logically help in
presenting the users through API-enabled graphical interface or command lines are also included
in the cloud infrastructure.
Web 2:
Tim O’Reilly and Dale Dougherty at the O’Reilly Media Web 2.0 Conference
popularized the term in late 2004, though Darcy DiNucci coined it in 1999. It is a current state of
online technology that compares the early days of the Web, which was characterized by the
greater user collaboration and interactivity with enhanced communication channels and
pervasive network connectivity.

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Extranet:
Extranet is a private network, which uses public telecommunication system and internet
technology to securely-share the part of information of the business or operations that are related
with the vendors, suppliers, customers, partners, or other than these businesses (Barnier et al.,
2013). It can be viewed as part of the intranet of the company, which is extended to users of
outside the company. It can also be described as a "state of mind" in which Internet is perceived
as a path to do businesses with different and other companies as well as to sell the products to
various customers.
Big data analytics:
It is a process of examining the varied and large data sets of Big Data in order to uncover
the hidden patterns, market trends, unknown correlations, customer preferences and several other
useful information that could help the organizations in enhancing the business and making more-
informed business decisions.
Answer 2:
Key elements of Data Mining are:
 Manage and store those data in multidimensional database. Example, Cloud
computing.
 Extract, load transaction, and transform data onto database. SaaS, IaaS, Paas
(Torgo, 2016).
 Analyze the data by the application software, for example finding new bundles of
the product, detecting manufacture problem, and cross selling.

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 Presenting the data in useful and easy format for example table, spreadsheet,
graphs etc. (Gupta, 2014).
Answer 3:
Because understanding the “reserve stock level” in ERP system can be more beneficial in
understanding the inventory management of the organization, which is a challenging topic for the
data mining. There are many objectives, where the errors in labeling stock levels can leave
customers unhappy and employees frustrated (Lebedeva & Poluektova, 2013). The ERP could
help in providing real data, which includes stock levels, expiry dates, location and status of the
report. It can be helpful on managing the cost by identifying potential problems and
inconsistencies related to the stock charges that are not triggering the re-order alerts. It also helps
in understanding the supply chain management that includes triggering promotion and purchase
on shifting stock to different location or on over stock (Palawatta & Perrera, 2016).
Answer 4:
With the increase in the business, the IT facility of the Wines was not able to handle the
increased amount of data that were being gathered due to the increase in the operational activities
of the Wines. The systems that were being used earlier were slow as they had not been
maintained properly or not formatted from a long time, which implies to the maintenance of
these systems. These drawbacks result in the loss of the employee productivity, which resulted in
the loss to the processes of the core business (Gheysari et al., 2012). The processes of the core
business of the Wines includes inventory management and order processing, which were
degraded because of the increase in the business and updated technology according to the needs
of the employees.

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There was not sufficient amount of the IT infrastructure for this new adoption, thus it
resulted in negative impact to the competitive advantage of the Wine’s industry. The IT capacity
in the organization was much less than needed which was not sufficient as per increase in the
business. This affected in meeting the demands and needs of the customers. The orders of the
customers were not processed in time due to this IT infrastructure.
Server virtualization benefit ‘Liberty Wines’ and the environment in many ways like it
helped in reducing the quantity of physical servers from ten quantities to four quantities. Because
of the reduced number of physical servers, Liberty Wines’ improved its customer services and
inventory management as, this reduction resulted in the applications running faster than earlier
through better utilization of the servers (Soomro & Hesson, 2012). Also its reduced the power
consumption that the organization was baring due to extra number of servers by making savings
in the replacement of the hardware that are needed for the servers.
Answer 5:
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is the financial intelligence unit
and a bureau of the Treasury Department of the United States. Data and IT problems that were
limiting the ability of FinCEN to financial crime can be stated as the main aim and objective of
FinCEN is to safeguard the financial systems that are being operated in the city or country from
the abuses of financial crimes that may harm the finance of any organization. Another objective
is to institute the anti-money laundering programs. Last aim can also clear the asked question
that is to promote national security through the process of analysis, collection, and the
dissemination of intelligence in finance.

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Data and IT problems that were limiting the ability of FinCEN in order to fight financial
crime can be stated as there has been lack of standardization and validation including the
inconsistent quality that were resulting FinCEN to suffer problems while reporting the data by
the financial institution. FinCen was getting limited to simple routines and the small datasets,
while making attempt to analyze the data that were being reported (Peirce, 2012). This resulted
in the inability for the FinCEN to conduct analysis on the data that were saved in massive
datasets and lacked in capabilities for the trend prediction and proactive analysis of the data.
Numerous offline systems were performing in order to report the data to the agencies. The above
circumstances resulted to face difficulties for the FinCEN to detect emerging and new threat
earlier in order to aid in disrupting criminal companies.
Analytical capabilities of FinCEN have been upgraded, which includes database and IT
infrastructure. This upgrade was made in order to enhance the performance of data analysis and
collection of those data and send them to the local law enforcement, federal states and the
regulatory authorities. FinCEN analysts have also improved the capabilities of examination and
the analytic processes. The Databases were upgraded too, that transferred the data of 11 years
from the legacy system of FinCEN to the new and upgraded system of record. This up gradation
in IT infrastructure of FinCEN provides ability to receive, store and process the data
electronically. A new search tool was introduced by the FinCEN, which was based on the web
application, including the intelligence, law enforcement and the regulatory users in order to
provide real-time access to the data of 11 years of Bank Secrecy Act. (BSA).
The financial intelligence depends on the effective data analytics in order to identify the
patterns and the relationships, which could reveal the potential illicit related activities.

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The ability to identify patterns and relationships is critical to national security as; this
intelligence has resulted in the increment in ability and speed in manner to detect the terrorist
financiers and the money launderers, which could be helpful in disrupting the criminal activities.
FinCEN detected and Disrupted following organizations in recent:
 Shells companies purchasing luxury properties.
 It fines BTC-e virtual currency $ 110 million.
 Agent Anthony Keslinke, who was jailed for fraud and money laundering in 2016.
(Fonte, 2017).
Role of data analytic in crime detection:
 Answers in real time for the questions related to the fraud
 Automatic collection of data (predetermined flow)
 Fast and total access to the data through the software named ‘indexing software’.

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