Information Systems Management

Management of distributed environment

Technical and business challenges

Security – problem especially in distributed environment.

Other challenges

• Cost/benefit.
• Infrastructure.
• Failure management/business continuity.
• Critical points – better degraded systems than no service.
• Amount of data.
• Systems are client oriented.
• Program architecture.
• Synchronisation
• Client focus.
• Supplier focus (SCM).
• I.T. Department or outsource (service management).
• Fraud internal.

Trends

• Going back to centralized systems. Virtual centralization. Uses replication.
• Create corporate database.
• Growth of middleware – heterogeneous systems.

Systems that constantly follow market.