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Covisint Technology (CT) is a medium-sized developer of electronic parts for the automotive industry

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Covisint Technology (CT) is a medium-sized developer of electronic parts for the automotive industry. Over the past 5 years, CT has grown from a small operation in Ottawa, Ontario with less than 10 employees, to its current size of 1,000 employees located in 10 offices and manufacturing facilities across Canada. The owner of Covisint Technologies is Mr. Bart Simpson.


CT has grown dramatically over the past few years, mostly through small mergers and acquisitions. These mergers and acquisitions have helped the company grow, but at the same time have caused tremendous stress and pressure on the systems used at CT. In particular, there are now over 50 different transaction processing systems (TPS) used at CT, many of which are redundant or are unable to communicate and share data with other necessary TPS. Many of these systems run on different hardware and software platforms, and some of the systems are very old. This overall situation has caused several issues at CT, including missed payroll, and most recently, the publication of financial statements that later turned out to be incorrect. In addition to these problems, CT has had tremendous difficulties in their abilities to access quality data to help them make decisions.


In addition to the inability to gain access to quality data to make decisions, Mr. Simpson realizes that even with good quality data, CT has no infrastructure or capabilities to use data to help them make decisions. Mr. Simpson realizes that he needs something to help CT make quality decisions, or they risk the future growth of the company.


Required:


a.      How CT can solve the transaction processing system (TPS) issue?
b.      What infrastructure CT can build to make quality decisions and identify the potential risk to the future growth of the company.


Detail explanation is needed.