Copyrights: A. Umar Wireless Management and Support Strategic Planning Capability Evaluation Development and deployment Monitoring and Control Organizing/staffing Amjad Umar
Copyrights: A. Umar Management Issues STRATEGIC PLANNING Business Strategy Analysis Analyzing Business Processes and Business Workflows Mobile Application Identification and Selection . CAPABILITY EVALUATION Wireless Infrastructure Planning Capacity Planning & Traffic Engineering Resource and Cost Estimation DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT Mobile application development Wireless infrastructure development Outsourcing the Wireless Infrastructure MONITORING AND CONTROL Wireless fault and performance management Wireless Security and configuration management ORGANIZING/STAFFING . Mobile Virtual Teams . Mobile Real-time Enterprises
Copyrights: A. Umar STRATEGIC PLANNING Business Strategy Analysis Analyzing Business Processes and Business Workflows Mobile Application Identification and Selection .
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Copyrights: A. Umar Key Strategic Questions How will the customer benefit from m-business? How will the firm benefit from m-business? Is there a market for what we are building? What value does m-business provide ? How will we make the money? Are we doing the right things? Are we doing things right? Are we heading in the right direction? What are the services we are good at and what are the services we need to improve/discontinue?
Copyrights: A. Umar Example of Business Workflow Analysis
Copyrights: A. Umar CAPABILITY EVALUATION Wireless Infrastructure Planning Capacity Planning & Traffic Engineering Resource and Cost Estimation
Copyrights: A. Umar Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Enterprise Portal Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Partners, Suppliers, Distributors Customers, Resellers Employees, Managers Business Intelligence Procurement Application Identification and Selection E-Market Marketing & Sales Customer Service Production Distribution Other Systems C2B B2B B2E Supply Chain Management Selling Chain Management HR System Existing system (unchanged) New system (with mobility support)
Copyrights: A. Umar Capability Evaluation Business Tier (New Business Logic ) Web Server EAI platforms for Back-end apps External (known) apps Trading network (B2N) apps Front-end integration requires diverse devices and applications such as Mobile devices such as PDAs, palm pilots VOIP integration Web browser with Java applets Applications on a variety of platforms ERPs CRM Portal Back-end Integration Selling Chain Management Payment Systems Front-end Integration Trading Network EMarkets ASPs Supply Chain Management Trading network involves business to network (B2N) activities with eMarkets and ASPs User Tier Resources Tier (Back-end/External Apps and Databases)
Copyrights: A. Umar Infrastructure (middleware, networks, operating systems) Business Logic (B) Tier High Level View: of Capabilities User (U) Tier Data (D) Tier Distributed Application APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) Management and support (Security, Performance, Fault Tolerance, change management)
Copyrights: A. Umar Solaris (Data) More Detailed View Catalog Purchase System Browser NT Server (Business Logic) Network (Wireless and Wired Network) Infrastructure (middleware, networks, operating systems) Infrastructure (middleware, networks, operating systems) Infrastructure (middleware, networks, operating systems) Cellular Phone
Copyrights: A. Umar Router Cellular Phone (WAP) Solaris (Data) Ethernet LAN More Detailed View TCP/IP Catalog Middleware (ODBC) Op System (UNIX) TCP/IP Purchase System Middleware (Web Server) (ODBC) Op System (NT) WAP Stack WML Middleware (Microbrowser ) Op System (Celullar) NT (Business Logic) CGI WAP Gateway Wireless Network Public Internet Router
Copyrights: A. Umar DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT Mobile application development Wireless infrastructure development Outsourcing the Wireless Infrastructure
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Copyrights: A. Umar Web Server HTML/XML Documents Back-end Databases Wireless ASP Back-end APPs Catalogs WIRELESS ASP SITE Security and Directory Services Customer Site Front-end Integration (e.g., WAP/VOIP gateway) HTTP WAP VOIP Wireless Security
Copyrights: A. Umar MONITORING AND CONTROL Wireless fault and performance management Wireless Security and configuration management
Copyrights: A. Umar Wireless Management and Support Issues Specific issues in managing mobile networks and wireless apps Five key areas (FCAPS): Fault management Capacity management Accounting(access) management Performance management Security management FCAPS at all layers of a stack (network, middleware, apps) Security is the main area of concern
Copyrights: A. Umar Application Elements Network Services (IP, Wireless, Wired) Middleware Sevices (e.g., Web, email) System software Services (Operating systems, database managers) Subject (Managed) Systems Application Manager Network Manager Middleware Sevices Manager System Software Manager Management Platform Control Panel Agents Agents Agents Agents
Copyrights: A. Umar Issues in Wireless Network Management In addition to the conventional wired network, wireless network management needs to address the following unique issues: Roaming. Persistence of Mobile Units. Lack of SNMP Agents in Mobile Units. Mobile Adhoc Networks .
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Copyrights: A. Umar ORGANIZING/STAFFING . Mobile Virtual Teams . Mobile Real-time Enterprises
Copyrights: A. Umar Organizational design procedure
Copyrights: A. Umar Summary Strategic Planning Capability Evaluation Development and deployment Monitoring and Control Organizing/staffing