You are free to add assumptions and details concerning HomeAssistant provided that they are consistent with the description above and provided that you specify them.

Deliverables

A. Suppose that you are the Director for IT at HomeAssistant, and that you are expected to leverage IT as much as possible, improving the operational and competitive aspects of the organization. For example, in your position, what would you do to…

· Streamline operations?

· Improve decision making to compete more effectively?

· Communicate more effectively to your customers?

These are just some of the things you could do; focus your assignment on expanding these examples above. Today, the organization has a workflow in-place, outline what that workflow looks like and how you would transform it.

In your own words, describe the application of four of the topics listed below (from the online notes this week) as they apply to HomeAssistant as specifically as possible. In your response, seek material additional to the online notesthrough research, that supports each topic and backs up your assertions.

· Wrapping Legacy Applications with Web Services

· Service Oriented Architecture

· Microservices architecture

· BigData

· Workflow and Business Process Management Systems

· Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

· Customer Relationship Management Systems

· Supply Chain Management Systems

· Business Intelligence

· Data Mining