Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Boardarea, write 400–600 words that respond to the following questions withyour thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation forfuture discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and useexamples to reinforce your ideas.

Story

The Education Community Services Group (ECSG) has been leading themarket in educational services enrollments for the past five years.Soon, other leading educational services providers started to overtakethe enrollments because of improvements made through online marketing. Astudy was conducted using surveys and analyses with statistics. Withthe demand for educational services and network administrationarchitecture (NSA) revamping, the company found some breathing room. Nowyou can go to a number of satellite campuses and online portals toenroll in the educational offerings that ECSG provides. Results havebeen great, and the corporation has been able to lead the task ofrejuvenating student enrollment.

Moral of the Story

As a company, management has to adapt to changes and competition. Onevital step to improving profitability and competitiveness is toevaluate the current network administration to determine performancegaps and ensure senior management is receiving the critical informationit requires to make strategic decisions. ECSG, realizing that it islosing market share to other providers of educational services, hasdetermined that it needs a more robust network administrationarchitecture to close the gap with its competitors. If you have thatagility and resiliency, you can survive as a company in the world ofconstant competition. As the old saying goes, “If you cannot beat them,then join them.” That is what the corporation did. The chief executiveofficer (CEO) made sure that he shares the online market as well.

The example companies, organizations, products, people, and eventsdepicted herein are fictitious. No association with any real company,organization, product, person, or event is intended or should beinferred.

Assignment Details

The story that you just read shows how difficult it can be to getstarted with formal enterprise system architecture, particularly if verylittle attention was given to enterprise system architecture (ESA) anddocumentation of content in an organization. For this discussion,research the library and Internet for information about the evaluationof enterprise systems architecture in organizations, and then respond tothe difficulties faced in the story and how some of these difficultieswere overcome.

• Discuss how you can automate existing company network administrationprocesses as well as revamp the information technology (IT)infrastructure.
• Identify positive and negative aspects of the selected processes in relation to the operational health of the organization.
• Select 1 of the most likely problem areas of an organization’snetwork administration infrastructure, and discuss how the difficultiescould be overcome.

• What did you learn from your classmate’s posting?
• What additional questions do you have after reading the posting?
• What clarification do you need regarding the posting?
• What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates’ postings?