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1. You are invited by the Government of Djibouti to advise on deployment of cloud for their e-governance services. The Government is very keen to reduce the total cost of ownership and increase scalability of its e-governance infrastructure. As such, it is evaluating the use of cloud and the right choice for the deployment model. You have been asked to provide a brief report explaining pros and cons of each cloud deployment model for e-governance systems in Djibouti. (10 Marks)
2. EZLearn Technologies is a startup being incubated at IIT Powai. It offers K12 e- Tutoring via cloud. Being a startup, it is unable to afford its own data center. Rather it is evaluating commercially available technology platforms for cloud computing. Specifically, it is evaluating (a) whether to opt for IaaS or PaaS, and (b) AWS, GCP or Azure. You are invited to provide a comparison of these choices and recommend the most suitable combination for them. You may get more details by visiting the web site of these firms or you can make your own assumptions. (10 Marks)
3. The Top Management of Dream Home Estates is meeting to discuss their plan for a New CRM Solution. Both the CIO, Mr. Unni and the CFO, Mr. Mishra are of the strong opinion that the company should implement a Custom On-Premise CRM solution to be developed by the company’s regular IT Partner. On the other hand, both, Mr Das, Head of Sales and Ms Dutt, CFO are keen to move to a cloud Cloud-based SaaS CRM solution. The debate is getting heated as Ms Dutt also recalled past IT system implementation failures.
- What arguments can Mr. Unni make in favor of in-house CRM implementation? (5 Marks)
- What arguments can Mr Das make in favor of a Cloud-based SaaS CRM solution? (5 Marks)