Strategic Information Systems Analysis for Rainbow Illusion Retail

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the strategic information systems employed by the Rainbow Illusion retail chain. It begins by examining the company's current manual transaction processing system, identifying its strengths such as data integrity and ease of alteration. The report highlights the issues avoided by this manual system, like data corruption and duplication errors, while also acknowledging the situational pressures that might necessitate the implementation of a more advanced information system. The core of the report focuses on the advantages of a distributed computing system over a centralized one, emphasizing benefits like resiliency, redundancy, and faster performance. The discussion covers the avoidance of corrupt data, duplication mistakes, alteration execution, accessibility, and data security in the manual system. Furthermore, the report also discusses the advantages of a distributed computing system including resiliency and redundancy. The report concludes by summarizing the key findings and implications for Rainbow Illusion's business strategy.

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Table of Contents
1.0 Introduction..........................................................................................................2
2.0 Discussion............................................................................................................2
2.1 Identified strengths...........................................................................................2
2.2 Avoided problems............................................................................................4
2.3 Situational pressures.........................................................................................5
2.4 Advantages of distributed computing system...................................................6
3.0 Conclusion............................................................................................................8
4.0 References..........................................................................................................10

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1.0 Introduction
The modern technological world requires the companies to implement the modern
technologies constantly and be significantly developed for tackling the issue of increasing
customers. The manual transaction processing system requires significant input in the system
for allowing the transaction in the business. This method of processing the transactions could
be observed as significantly slow and troublesome for the company.
The organisation Rainbow illusion is the 30-store retail chain that is mainly
concentrated in the area of New South Wales as well as Victoria and they trade clothes which
are mainly ready-to-wear for the young females. The unsophisticated cash registers
embedded with the four part sales invoices are used by the organisation for recording the
details of each transaction. This report intends to discuss the present business process of the
Rainbow illusion organisation and analyse the issues that are faced by the organisation. The
identification of strengths are done that are present in the organisation due to the use of the
manual transaction processing system. The issues that are avoided by the organisation due to
the proper use of the manual transaction processing system has been discussed. The
situational pressures that could rise in the organisation due to which, information system
would be required to be implemented has been suggested. The major benefits of using the
distributed computing system over any centralised computing system has been briefed in this
report.
2.0 Discussion
2.1 Identified strengths
Due the proper management of the manual transaction processing system in the
organisation, the organisation gains several benefits that are proving to be effective for the
growth of the organisation. Some of the strengths of the organisation could be categorised as:

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Avoiding issue of corrupt data: With the analysis of the present manual transaction
processing system in the organisation, it could be observed that corrupting the data of the
organisation is significantly difficult and it ensures the availability of data for longer period
of time. With the utilisation of the automatic transaction processing system in the
organisation, there could be the issue where any illegal user has gained the access in the
system and destroyed the integrity of the data. This could mean that the organisation loses
data that has been maintained for significant amount of time.
Mistakes of duplication: As the organisation has been utilising the manual transaction
processing system, the organisation does not face the issue of any kind of duplication errors.
Due to the use of the computerised system in the organisation, there is a significantly high
chance of errors of duplication in the files of the organisation. There could be the major issue
of using the outdated data for operation due to the errors of duplication. As this organisation
utilises the manual system, a ledger is effectively managed in the organisation where all the
information of working has been stored. Any duplication of data has significantly less chance
of happening.
Executing alterations: It could be observed that the organisation possess the
significantly simplified method of editing and altering that is not obtained with the
introduction of the automatic transaction processing system. If there is any situation where
any changes are required to be made in the data of the organisation, the ledger of the
organisation could be easily edited and modified. Any new entry could be significantly easily
implemented in the ledger of the organisation. The alteration of any data in the system of the
organisation requires several permissions and any immediate changes required in the data
could not be done easily.

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Accessibility: This is the major advantage that has been obtained by the organisation
where the authorised individuals of the organisation could easily access the ledger for making
any required modification in data. For example, business owners might rely significantly on
the accounting staff for updating the data in the system and the software that is presently
being used in the organisation. In any situation, when any of the owners need to access any of
the data placed in the system of the organisation, there might be the chance that the owner
would have to wait for significant time as the data is not updated by the accounting staff of
the organisation. As the organisation manages the manual transaction processing system, any
employee of the organisation who need the information regarding present transactions for
executing any task could easily access the ledger and gain the required data that is required
for executing the task.
Access and data security: Paper ledgers has been considered as significantly less
problematic. There is simplified data security in the manual ledgers as the ledger could be
safely protected in the accounting department of the organisation and it would reduce the
chance of any kind of modification made in the system of the organisation. The issue of
hacking that is prominent in the automatic transaction processing system has been effectively
avoided by the manual transaction processing system in the organisation.
2.2 Avoided problems
As the organisation mainly manages the manual transaction process within the
organisation, there are several issues in the automatic transaction process which are efficient
avoided by the organisation. It has been observed that the automatic transaction process
creates several issues for the organisation and the customers as it engages the internet, which
could be used for gaining any data illegally. The accessing of the system of organisation
becomes significantly simplified along with the simplification of purchasing and selling
goods. In any globalised market, major potential for growth of the organisation could be done

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with the appropriately implemented transaction processing system. While maintaining any
manual transaction processing system, this organisation has been able to avoid several issues
that could harm the major business functions of the organisation. Due to the fact any online
transaction processing system that works automatically requires efficient integration among
the various departments of the organisation, there is a requirement of huge investment for
developing any mutual platform in the organisation. It has been observed that there is
significant difficulty in handling the operations within any transaction processing system as
significantly huge amount of data is managed that includes the customer details from each
department as well as the banking details of the customers of the organisation. Any
transaction processing system implemented in the organisation could be considered as the
combination of all the software as well as the software of the organisation that are efficiently
used for the management of huge amount of data of the business and the customers. Due to
the significantly lesser size of the organisation, the system management could be immensely
difficult and it would not produce the results that are intended to gain. This improper
management of the system in the organisation could increase the chances of breaches and
theft of information and there breaches might be intended for crippling the system of the
organisation. There is an additional issue along with this issues, which is the issue of
technical malfunction in the organisation that arises from the electrical outages. The frequent
electrical outages in the system of the organisation could lead to the malfunction of the
transaction processing system and efficient results could not be gained.
2.3 Situational pressures
The companies include the Rainbow illusion where certain number of issues might be
there which will manage a certain amount of client data. After this optimised services are
provided in case of the customers. This may create a force on the institution in case to
implement all the systems that are optimised in case of the organisation which increase all the

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chances to breach the data and to cause a fraud (Vasile et al. 2015). The total number of
employees also increased which may have serious requirements in case to provide the
information’s in the live time to all their employees, thus this allows them in case to serve all
their customers with much optimised services. In this case optimised systems and robust
systems are required in case of the organisation that have many dangers in case of the
institution.
2.4 Advantages of distributed computing system
The term distributed computing is described by the computing concept which refers
many umber of computer systems which are also working on the problem that is similar to
them (Jonas et al. 2017). Any of the singular problems are distributed in various sections
among them each parts are resolved along with various computers. As the process are
executed in a proper manner all of the computer works singularly. At the time the computers
are connected to network the systems will perform a better communication with the problems
that are solving (Fraigniaud, Korman and Peleg 2013). The main intention of this type of
computers is to maximise the performance along with better connection among all the
resources of IT and all the cost effective users are both reliable and also they have transparent
manner.
The main purpose behind the distribution of the resource in case of a computer
network also allows to simplify saving of the problem, it also allows to use all the resources
that are of the organisation (Kahanwal and Singh 2013). This was first introduced by the use
of terminals that are for data entry of all the prime computers and also for the architecture
that is of the client-server (Wang et al. 2013). This is the architecture that includes the total
client count those are working for the machine which have light weight agents in case of the
software which is installed with the management server that is devoted in case of the
computer system that is distributed. The agents execute all the tasks that re requested by any

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of the package of application (Hwang, Dongarra and Fox 2013). At the time of the return of
the user the resources are required which utilises to perform all the tasks when the user is not
present.
The computer system that is distributed can execute in an efficient manner in
case of the hardware which is provided by different vendors and also it utilises all the
components if the software which are dependent on the standard (Al-Roomi et al. 2013). This
are the systems that are independent from the software that are underlined. This can be
executed o the operating systems also various communication protocols can also be utilised.
There are various users which uses UNIX and LINUX as their OS, there are also certain
hardware which uses Windows as their OS.
All the computers are attached to the network which can be a LAN or else a
WAN. This executes for a communication, which allows all the sections that are of complete
system in case of the computers from any of the location. All the distributed computing nodes
are have autonomous machines. This are the systems which are distributed in two parts
including the back end and the front end (Liu and Meng 2013). The front end are used in case
to interact among the users in case to determine all type of information which are requested in
case to access and also to process to organise all the information. This are also executed in
the user’s computer. This is the distributed computing which is also known as architecture of
client server. The prime reason for the companies to use distributed computing rather than the
central computing is because of all the benefits which are included in resiliency, increasingly
resilient and also increasingly faster when compared to all the sole computers which requires
maintenance and other information related to the organisation. There are numerous number of
benefits as well while using the distributed systems. When compared among them the easiest
benefit for the computer system that is distributed is resiliency and redundancy (Yang, Li and
Cheng 2016). When the companies serves the websites from the distributed servers but not

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from the sole servers it performs in an efficient manner and the server never fails. When there
is distributed data the servers, it cause distributed systems that are enough modern and the
data loss that will happen over there is also very low.
The distributed systems are faster when compared to the sole computers. The
requests are routed in the servers which are adjacent physically in a fast network connection
that also requires data in case of the organisation which signifies the utilisation in the least
time and all the other resources are also allocated by dealing efficiently along with the traffic
of the network and bottlenecks.
When the computer systems that are distributed are configured in case to
distribute all the data for the servers that are involved and the network scalability also
becomes higher (Omatu et al. 2014). The distributed systems are also capable to be structured
in case to gain all the significant parallelism. When the systems are designed in an effective
manner it becomes simpler, this occurs because the recent hardware and the network are used
in case to add as of the aspect in case of the distributed system. This is the feature which is
very common in case of all the operations of mathematics in case of the things include the
scientific modelling and also water modelling in which case multiple number of robust
processors can divide all the sections that are independent from the simulations that re
complex and after this the answer is gained very easily.
3.0 Conclusion
Therefore, the conclusion could be observed that the manual transaction processing
system implemented in the organisation provides several benefits in the organisation. Paper
ledgers has been considered as significantly less problematic. There is simplified data
security in the manual ledgers as the ledger could be safely protected in the accounting
department of the organisation and it would reduce the chance of any kind of modification

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made in the system of the organisation. It has been observed that the automatic transaction
process creates several issues for the organisation and the customers as it engages the
internet, which could be used for gaining any data illegally. The accessing of the system of
organisation becomes significantly simplified along with the simplification of purchasing and
selling goods. In any globalised market, major potential for growth of the organisation could
be done with the appropriately implemented transaction processing system. The companies
include the Rainbow illusion where certain number of issues might be there which will
manage a certain amount of client data. After this optimised services are provided in case of
the customers. The term distributed computing is described by the computing concept which
refers many umber of computer systems which are also working on the problem that is
similar to them. Any of the singular problems are distributed in various sections among them
each parts are resolved along with various computers. As the process are executed in a proper
manner all of the computer works singularly.

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