2024 – Assignment 2 In case you haven t yet looked yet assignment 2 is due at the end of

*Assignment #2:  In case you haven’t yet looked yet, assignment #2 is due at the end of this week and is the largest assignment of the course in terms of points aside from the group project.  I would recommend getting a jump on this assignment so you aren’t painted into a corner late on a Sunday trying to do research and formulate a solid submission.  

Refer to Chapter 4 of your text to complete this assignment.  This is an individual assignment, not a group assignment.

Select one of the topics below. Write a 500 word research paper on the real world application of the chosen technology. Your paper should a include the type of organization(s) that benefit most from this technology. Elaborate on what business problem the technology solves. Also, how does it help the organization achieve one or more of the following?

·       Achieve operational excellence through higher levels of efficiency and productivity

·       Create new products, services, and business models

·       Raise revenue and profits while lowering costs by increasing customer and supplier intimacy

·       Improve decision making for managers and employees

·       Increase competitive advantages

·       Insure survival caused by business environment changes

Choose ONE topic:

·       Autonomic computing

·       Cloud computing

·       Grid computing

·       Nanotechnology

·       N-tier client/server architectures

·       On-demand computing

·       Service-oriented architecture (SOA)

·       Storage area networks (SANs)

·       Virtualization

NOTE:  1) Do not include title page or abstract, only body of paper with APA in-text citations and bibliography and 2) do not paste your paper in the submission box, but attached a Word document instead, and 3) you should have at least three references.