This is one question overall, I would appreciate your help.

Think of a computing system [University's canvas system, Library's catalog, Your company's HR system, Your company's customer service system, Douglas County Tax collection system, Your company's main IT system (could be car scheduling for UP, Premium calculator for Mutual of Omaha, Batch Printing System for CSG systems].

1. How has this system evolved over the years?

2. What changes has it gone through to make it more feature rich, accessible and modern and what business benefit was it trying to achieve?

3. What are the technological advances that they have done to distribute the transaction out into a client server model potentially with many layers of server processes servicing a client request? What technologies have gone in to make it open, scalable, reliable and secure?

4. Think about the middleware (non application related stuff ) that is making it possible

You may need to reach out to an architect, project manager, IT professional that has been working in a company for a while or in our University's IT department for a while to get these insights captured to write this paper. I am giving it 3 weeks so you have time to pre

Write a paper or make a power point or use VISIO. I don't particularly have a preference.