Answer to Question #315300 in Management for Amit Shah

Question

As a major energy utility San Francisco’s Pacific Gas and Electric should have know better. Its Oracle ERP implementation had gone well, and there had been no problems of note; until it came time to test the system. Apparently, a manager had chosen a live information database to use during pre-launch testing, although no one thought that the regime would uncover any sensitive company information. Unfortunately, this was untrue, and consequently created a host of costly recovery programs, in addition to losing public confidence in the company’s brand

Brief your staff on exactly what they should do and not do.

Don't get non-specialist staff to carry out non-specialist roles.

How to launch the well-planned ERP system for this case scenarios.

Explain all in broader view.

Answer 1

Many things can be done for the change. Some of them are given below:

Business Drivers for Change

Increasing loads due to data growth and internet growth

Long data retention requirements from various regulatory and legislative rules.

Smart Meter with supporting growth on the mainframe platform.

Cost associated with supporting growth on the mainframe platform.

Key Project Drivers

Support the business requirements

Simplify operations

Reduce Costs

Solution

Move to Oracle database running on Mid-Tier Unix servers.

Utilize Oracle technologies to the max to simplify the software stack

Move away from a reliance on tapes as a first tier recovery mechanism.

Failure Analysis- What can fail and how to recover

Single and Multiple hardware failures

Physical database corruption

Logical database corruption

Disaster

Recovery by Design

Transparent recovery for routine failures

Use RAID to protect.

Use redundant hardware to protect

Intervention recovery for rare failures:

Use recovery and DR to protect

Daily backup to disk on primary and standby database

One month backup cycle

Keep previous month copy

Types of Mergers

Horizontal Mergers: It happens when one company merges or take over another company. ex: HDFC acquired Times Bank.

Vertical Mergers: In this merger, there is a combination of two companies that are in the same business of producing the same goods and services, but the only difference is the stage of production at which they are operating are different. Ex: In Nov 2015 Apple buys Star Wars motion capture company Faceshift , Reliance and FLAG Telecom group.

Concentric Mergers: They are the between firm that serves the same customers in a particular industry. but the products and services offered are different. Ex: Coke's acquisition of Vitamin Water. Honest Tea, Fuze beverage and core powder.

Conglomerate Mergers: When two companies that operate in a completely industry merger together to form a new company. Ex: L$T merger with Voltas Ltd.

Vertical Merger is there applied and from my point of view conglomerate mergers can also be used.