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Cisco ERPCA Technologies
MIS 501
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Cisco ERP
• Characterize Cisco– Industry– History– Management philosophy and structure
• Who are the key players• What effect have they had on Cisco’s success
Cisco ERP
• What is Cisco’s Strategy?
• Why have they been successful?
Cisco ERP
• Cisco is often characterized as one of the first “information-age” companies.– Why is this so?– How does IT influence their strategy?
Cisco ERP
• Why did Cisco need to move to a new ERP?– How does this history influence the choices
made in selecting …• the ERP system vender • Applications
– Did they really have a choice?– Was $15 that really an excessive amount?
Cisco ERP
• Once they made their choice, how did they proceed?– Management Support– Change management
• Sound familiar?
What is Cisco About?
• A company that makes routers?
• Sure, but what else?
Cisco ERP
• How did the choices made for the ERP system influence subsequent IT capabilities?
• How would you assess their “Internet Capabilities” strategy?– What is their history with the Internet?– They started this almost 20 years ago; put
yourself into their shoes in 1993.
Cisco ERP• What has been the impact of this Internet strategy on the
company (as described in the case)?– Operations?– Performance?
Cisco Today
Cisco ERP• What are the components of this Internet Capability?
– Real-time messaging
– Data accessibility and consistency
– Everyone is on the net
– Everyone is on the net through a browser
– Customer-facing systems are all web-based
– Focus on self-service
– Information transparency
– Organizational boundaries are permeable (i.e., the “extended enterprise”)
CA Technologies
Who is CA Technologies?
What is CA Tech’s History?• Founded in 1976 to “add on” functionality to
IBM Mainframes
• Broadened into mainframe software and services, including system management
• Expanded to client-server support in the ‘90’s
• In 2000’s clearly focused on enterprise IT management and support
What does CA do?
What does Enterprise IT Management Mean?
• Network Computing – ERP– CRM– SCM Software– Management and integration of these
functions in house or hosted
IT in today’s Enterprise
• SaaS
• ASP
• Hosting
• Virtualization
To the Cloud
Send in the Clouds
• Is cloud computing a disruption to CA Technologies business model?– Why? – Why not?
What is cloud computing, really?
• It’s a utility model of computing– Pay as you go– Pay for what you use– Rely on economies of scale– Share resources
Not all Clouds are the same
• Private clouds
• Hybrid clouds
• Community or shared clouds
• Public clouds
What does the cloud offer?
• Platforms and infrastructure
• Software
The road ahead?
• What should CA Technologies do?– What stands in their way– Who will they be competing with– What services should they offer– Will they cannibalize their existing business
model– How will they get there
CA Technologies and the Cloud