IT $482$ Project One Guidelines and Rubric

Competency

In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competency:

Design a strategic plan for implementing a new system architecture in an organization

Determine what information technology policies, laws, regulations, standards, and contracts are applicable in a given situation

Scenario

Intelligent Computer Services $($ICS$)$ is a global technology innovator and implementer of artificial intelligence $($AI$)$ solutions, with specialization in the finance and retail industries. ICS employs more than $150,000$ individuals and has offices in $120$ countries around the world, with its global headquarters in Dublin, Ireland. Its U$.$S$.$ headquarters are in Chicago, IL$,$ and other U$.$S$.$ office locations include New York City; Austin, TX; Minneapolis, MN; and Seattle, WA$,$ to name a few.

To support its global footprint, ICS has built and managed five global data centers in Dublin, Chicago, Albuquerque, Singapore, and Tokyo. These data centers support ICS business objectives, as well as data center colocation space for its clients in the developing world.

Ten years ago, ICS initiated a global assessment of its information technology infrastructure, intending to start migrating its critical business solutions to cloud computing services. Unfortunately, as a result of a global economic recession, ICS had to put the initiative on hold to restructure its business operations to focus on growth and revenue improvements.

Recently, with a $30\%($$$43$ billion$)$ revenue increase from $10$ years ago, double$-$digit profits, and cash on hand of about $$7\mathrm{.}5$ billion, ICS$$s board of directors approved an executive proposal to migrate $75\%$ of its critical technology infrastructure services to the cloud in three years.

The proposal aims to leverage native cloud services, software as a service $($SaaS$)$ solutions, infrastructure as a service $($IaaS$)$ platforms, and security services, as well as being multi$-$cloud. This cloud migration journey will include large human capital, finance, and talent development initiatives to ensure continuous delivery of first$-$class client services. As the lead solution architect at ICS, you have been tasked with conducting a detailed assessment of the current system architecture and writing a strategic plan to migrate the organization$$s on$-$premises Oracle PeopleSoft Human Capital Management $($HCM$)$ enterprise solution to an SaaS solution. The Cloud Journey team had proposed that ICS migrate to Oracle HCM Cloud or Workday HCM$.$ Based on licensing benefits and other migration considerations, the CIO has approved migration to Oracle HCM Cloud.