Reference no: EM13304915
Hures is a leading human resource service provider. To keep up with growing businessdemands,itimplementeditsfirstinformation system in 1987purchasing a mainframe computerthat servedso-called dumbterminals on the users' desktops.
To keep pace withchanges inboththe business and Information System environment, and also to accommodate the demands of Y2K, the companyportedtheapplication to a client/server networkin 1999. Thenew client/server systeminitially resulted in an increase in efficiency of 30%. By the end of second year, the company's profit grew by 18%;the reduced cost of maintenance of the network and improved data handling capabilities provided by the Client/Server system contributed largely to thisimprovement.
The companycontinued to growrapidlyever sincebuthas noticed that the network has problems such as difficulty in scaling the servers to respond to the increased load inthedistributed environment and a continualrequirement for increasingly powerful desktop machines.
But the main problem of the company is the difficulty inconfiguring applications into client-server modules and in modifyingtheconfiguration in response touser feedback. Hures's internal IS staff blame the Client/Server architecture for these problems, whereas the management believes that the problem is largely due thepoordesign of theservice.
Answer all questions:
1. Do you think the problemsfaced by Hures, both past and present,are unique? Why or why not?
2. Suggest alternative architectures that could be used to overcome the problems faced by Hures' current Client/Server technology
3. One of the suggestions proposed by Hures' IS department is the use of intranet web technology. Examine the pros and cons of such an idea.
4. Do you think the popularity of intranetsoftwareand the Internet pose threats to traditional Client/Server systems?
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