NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MODERN LANGUAGES

MANAGEMENT SCIENCES

ASSIGNMENT # 2

PROJECT & OPERATION MANAGEMENT

Usama Khalid Khan

Roll No. L-1322

M.Com III (Evening)

Session 2019-2020

Apr. 07

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 TOPIC
Select a company of your own choice and discuss its profile with respect to its
projects (as discussed in class). Also select one of its projects and conduct its
economic and technical/technological analysis.

Who We Are
Our purpose:
To deliver on the promise of technology
and human ingenuity

We embrace the power of change to create 360° value

for our clients, people and communities.

"Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We
care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and
communities. It is personal to all of us."

514K
Accenture employees worldwide

6K
Clients served throughout more than 120 countries

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 7900
Patents and patents pending worldwide

200
Cities with Accenture locations and operations, across 50 countries

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Partners in our ecosystem

“ We create 360° value

by embracing change ”
We now work with 91 of the Fortune Global 100. As of 2020, we've made
18 consecutive appearances on the list of Fortune's "World's Most Admired
Companies". And that's just the beginning.

What We Believe
Core values
Our values shape the culture of our organization and define the character of our
company. We live the core values through individual behaviors. They serve as the
foundation for how we act and make decisions.

Ethics and corporate governance

Acting with ethics and integrity always has been and always will be the right thing
to do.

Our culture of equality

Accenture’s commitment to our people and to accelerating equality for all has
never been more relevant than it is today.

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 Taking a stand against racism
Learn about our commitment to stand against bigotry, injustice and racism.

Empowering disability inclusion

We are committed to creating an inclusive, accessible workplace .

How We Work With Clients

“ Growing customer expectations. Market-shaping AI.
Self-optimizing systems. ”
The post-digital age shows no signs of slowing down, and the need for rapid
business transformation has never been greater.

We meet clients wherever they are on their paths to change—in every industry
across the globe—and partner with them to create lasting value.

Our Community Impact

“ Supporting Communities Everywhere ”

Corporate Citizenship
We’re working to build a future of shared success.

Our Focus on the Environment

We’re committed to playing a leading role in the change to a low-carbon economy.

Skills to Succeed
We’re helping people gain the skills to get a job or build a business.

Accenture Development Partnerships

We’re using our global capabilities and experience to improve lives in the developing
world.

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 AWARDS
RANKED NO. 33 ON Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies
RANKED NO. 3 ON Refinitiv (formerly Thomson Reuters) Diversity &
Inclusion Index.
RANKED NO. 2 ON Barron's 20 Most Sustainable International Companies

Shared success stories

“ We work together across the globe to make a world of

difference. ”
We collaborated with the H&M Foundation to accelerate sustainable fashion by
creating the Global Change Award.

Join us

“ At the heart of every great change is a great human. ”

Your career is about what you want to be and who you want to be. It’s about
bringing your skills, your curiosity and your best true self to your work.
Here, you’ll match your ingenuity with the latest technology to make incredible
things.
Let’s create something together.

Projects
 Accenture | Projects
 Change Management
 Cloud Computing
 Customer Relationship Management
 Cyber Security
 Data Science
 Digital
 E-Commerce
 ERP Systems
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 ERP SYSTEMS

ERP – An overview

The term Cloud Computing (CC) was coined in 2006 and it is a technological
platform that allows users, organizations or individuals, to access and use
computer resources via the internet on demand. AJAX, Multitenancy and
Virtualization are the three technologies that lead to emergence and
development of cloud computing (Schubert, 2011). AJAX enables the client to
communicate with the server dynamically; multitenancy describes shared use of
single software by multiple clients through their private and individual data space
whereas virtualization allows for sharing of physical resources. Three services
namely Saas (Software as a Service), Iaas (Infrastructure as a Service) and Paas
(Platform as a Service) are provided.

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Volume 3 Issue 2, 2013 367 by different clouds for different service models as
depicted in figure 1 (Schubert, 011). IN the Saas model, the cloud provides
software to the users. Many customers use the same software in their own
private data space. Users are not required to install any application on their PCs
to access the software services provided by the cloud. They can use the software
utility but have no rights to control or manage the infrastructure. The minimum
requirement to access cloud services are internet connection with a PC. For IaaS
model the cloud provides capability to the users to use various computing
resources, instead of buying them. The users have right to control the storage,
operating system and deployed applications. The services are billed for their
usage.

In case of PaaS, cloud provides platform to build user applications and software.
Deployed application can be accessed from anywhere and the space for these
applications can be increased and decreased based on the usage. The users have
rights to control their deployed application and several application hosting
environment configurations. Private, Community, Public and Hybrid clouds are
the deployment models that are supported in the cloud computing environment.
In case of Private cloud, the cloud infrastructure is operated solely for one
organization whereas infrastructure is shared by multiple
customers/organizations in public cloud. For Community cloud, infrastructure is
shared by several organizations that has common concerns and are managed
either by one of the participating organization or a cloud vendor. Hybrid cloud is a
composition of two or more clouds (public, private) that remain unique entities,
but are bound together by standardized or proprietary technology. Each
deployment model instance has one of two types: internal or external. Internal
clouds reside within an organization infrastructure and an external cloud reside
outside the organization and is provided by a cloud provider. More than 20
definitions to describe and focus on certain aspects of cloud technology (Geelan,
2011) exists, but the following definition best suits for the area of ERP systems
that is the major focus of the study here. “Cloud Computing is an information
technology service model where computing services (software) are delivered on
demand to customers over a network in a self-service fashion, independent of
device and location” (Marston, 2011).

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 Economic and Technological analysis.

Economical Analysis

 Economical Flexible Payment.

 Pay per use. Low Entry Cost.
 There is no need to purchase software and its licenses.
 Low Operational Cost.
 No IT infrastructure is needed other than internet connection with good
speed is needed.
 Low IT manpower requirement.
 Low Implementation time.

Technological Analysis

 Technological Elasticity.
It is the ability to scale IT resources both up and down as per the need.
 Ubiquitous access.
It is the ability to access the cloud services over a network.
 Service quality.
The service should be provided without interruption and loss of data.
 Data Lock in.
There should be policies that easily allow data to be retrieved and migrated
to other vendor.
 Customization.
The ERP on Cloud provides certain level of customization
 User friendliness.
The software is user friendly.
 Availability.
Uninterrupted services should be available 24X7.
 Backup and Storage.
It mainly deals with issues of how and where the organization data is
stored.

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  Security.
The data should be not be accessed by unauthorized persons on the
network and within an organization. The public perception of lack of
security is a major threat to adoption of ERP in cloud.
 Interoperability.
It is the issues that arise when services of one cloud are to be moved to
another other cloud.
 Performance.
The performance keeps on fluctuating.