Strategic information systems plan
The customer was a conglomerate of industrial companies in the aerospatial sector, that had different information systems to support each of these companies. This system proliferation had a considerable impact on systems maintenance and operation costs, and a very limited systems integration capabiity. The Board decided the integration of all the companies' activities support under a single information systems architecture, and thus required the definition of a Strategic Information Systems Plan to evolve and integrate its existing information systems.
The main activities executed were:
- Detailed analysis of the system integration requirements (business processes to support, organizational areas involved, existing initiative in the information systems area, etc.)
- Identification of problems and inefficiencies in the existing business processes, together with functionality gaps in the existing information systems
- Identification and evaluation of systems evolution alternatives, including its economic and duration estimation
- Definition of the future architecture of processes and systems, and functionlity coverage of the new systems on the business activities to be supported
- Identification of possible financing sources for the systems evolution project
The customer obtained from this project:
- A map of existing processes and systems for all the companies in the group
- A functionality coverage map of the existing systems over the business processes
- Main problems and deficiencies of the existing systems
- Description and assessment of the systems evolution alternatives
- To be processes and systems maps, and projected coverage map of the new systems over the new processes
- Initiatives plan to reach the expected new systems and processes architecture