The Given Scenario

S-mart is a fictitious national retail company that owns and runs many stores throughout cities of Australia. S-mart has not only one or more stores in every city having a population of more than 10,000 people, but also an online store. Their administrative headquarters are located in Melbourne, some administrative functions are accessible online too.

S-mart has contacted you to be their cloud computing consultant, and its management want to know about cloud computing. Additional details about this company are:

SIT113 – Cloud Computing and Virtualisation Trimester 1 (2018) Assignment Two 10% – Due Date: End of Week 10

•   S-mart stocks more than 50,000 product lines, all based around packaged groceries and perishables like those found in major supermarkets such as Woolworths, Coles, ALDI, and IGA.

•   S-mart has a very large customer base, which can cause high workload, for staff and IT resources, throughout the year at both unpredictable and seasonal times.

•   A large amount of data, related to S-mart lines, customers and their purchases, are collected and stored. This data is processed as “big data” on a weekly basis, and results of processing are used to inform both customers and staff.

•   As S-mart is a large national company, its staff are organised into many teams. Each team is associated with one or more stores. There are many tasks of this business: buying, selling, distribution, marketing, planning, seasonal sales, reports, catalogues, big data analysis, human resources, finance, R&D, security, IT, and so on. Each team is assigned to one of these tasks, and one task can be assigned one or more teams.

  Questions

  The above scenario must be used when answering the following questions.