1. JOSEPH’S COLLEGE OF COMMERCE (AUTONOMOUS)

END SEMESTER EXMAINATION – OCTOBER 2014

 MIB – III SEMESTER

ADVANCED COMPUTER APPLICATIONS FOR BUSINESS

TIME: 3 Hours                                                                                         Max. Marks: 100
Section – A

1. Answer any SEVEN Each carries 5 marks.                     (7 x 5  = 35)

 

1. What do you mean by EDP and explain its advantages?
2. Explain the different Approaches of Information System Audit taking company as a case?
3. Decode: HTML, SGML, XML, VOIP, ERP with proper examples and its usability in real time?
4. What is a System? Explain the Characteristics and elements of the system?
5. Enumerate the steps involved in Information System Development?
6. Differentiate between SPSS and Excel? What is the role of SPSS in the real time applications?
7. What do you mean by Web Publishing and Write in the advantages?
8. SAD or SAP how can you differentiate with the two. Explain their usability when working on different applications?
9. Differentiate between IS Vs IT and how can they both inter-relate with each other?
10. OAS or EDI? Which can benefit the company when you are transferring the messages from one place to the other and write in the advantages?

 

Section – B

1. Answer any THREE Each carries 15 marks.               (3 x 15   = 45)

11) What do you mean by SDLC? Explain the steps involved in the same taking the company as a case?

12) Explain in brief the classification of Information System and its importance by giving real-time examples?

13) What do you mean Digital Watermarking? Explain in the same different features of Watermarking and its applications in real-time scenario?

14) What are the steps in Data Processing? And how can be it involved in data processing operations?

15) What are the Objectives of IS Audit? Explain in detail the relevant roles at each stage by taking company as a case?

 

 

Section – C

• Compulsory Case study                                                                          (20 marks)

16.

Panasonic Information Systems, the systems division of Japan’s giant Panasonic group, was challenged with building an IT infrastructure capable of meeting increasing business demands. HP 3PAR Utility Storage formed an important part of the backbone systems that not only provide on-demand response to business demands but also support the company’s new Nextructure cloud services. Panasonic Information Systems (Panasonic IS),

the systems division of Panasonic, offered a next generation IT infrastructure solution known as Nextructure.“As the systems division at Panasonic, we were involved with development and operations focusing primarily on backbone systems, and then we became independent,” says Hisashi  Kurono, Managing Director and CIO at Panasonic IS. “We had gained a lot of experience facing the whirlwind of rapid advancement seen with open architecture right before and after our establishment. Nextructure is a systemized IT infrastructure solution made possible by the cultivation of know-how spanning over 50 years. It brings together construction and operating processes based on practical experience, technology that has been proven in the field, and products selected with the user in mind. We took advantage of our construction and operating know-how to implement virtual storage and server systems across the board for our cloud-based service infrastructure here at Panasonic IS.” Technology that virtualizes CPU, memory, and storage resources has finally become widespread in recent years, even among open systems. However, it was in 2004 that Panasonic IS implemented virtualization within the Panasonic backbone system, while consideration of the move actually began in 2002.

 

When Panasonic decided to implement virtualization within its backbone system, this was driven in particular by the quick advancement of open architecture, which brought about a complication of systems and  the so-called silo effect. Executive officer Keisuke Tanaka recalls the situation at that time: “At the initiative of the application development team, individual systems were being implemented one after another resulting in a rapid increase in the load on systems operations. We had to approach operations using separate methods for each respective system. The increase in operational costs became an issue, and we also faced various system troubles. It was at this point that we began working on a drastic redesign aiming to increase the operational quality of open systems and reduce costs.” Panasonic IS decided upon the strategy of separating the application from the execution infrastructure, allowing integration of systems operations at the infrastructure level, rather than approaching them at the application level as was done previously.

 

“When deciding upon server and storage systems, our focus was really on how we could reduce operational load, which had been nearing its limits, while still maintaining service quality on a par with that of a mainframe,” explains Tanaka.

 

Questions:

1. a) What are the steps can Panasonic take to meet the business demands and the challenges to meet at achieving convergence?
2. b) Define Virtualization and its Usability and the advantages where the company can benefit?                                     (10+10)

 

 

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