Suggest a case with company's IT strategy, the implementation of that strategy, and the way the strategy benefited the company as a whole.

 

describe how the company mentioned was able to develop a successful IT strategy.

 

Need references on the above chosen case as well

An example of a company with a successful IT strategy is the UES: Leveraging Tomorrow's Technology, Today. This company had lots of challenges in its operations especially in the management of its own internal in house hardware and systems due to the rapid improvement in the infrastructure around them. The company's systems were so outdated such that by 2004 the company still used a windows 2003 data center. The company was thus unable to manage its operations since the out-dating of its systems caused certain core upgrades unable to be done. The company's version of SQL was not compatible to that of other places. this caused a ramification of the companies due to its critical enterprise resource planning system.

The company then partnered with other companies such as Lanrex who enabled the company migrate to an entirely new IT cloud infrastructure to the cloud that not only utilized the amazon web services as well as Microsoft office 365. After the partnership the company improved and adopted a 100% cloud and started using Citrix XenApp technology and AWS. The company's adoption of the IT strategy ensured that there was a significant reduction in its upfront capital costs. The company also accrued other benefits such as lower capacity risk, reduction in the monthly maintenance costs and faster setups as well as configuration of its servers