Scenario: Skyline just acquired Goldstar, which almost doubled the number of restaurants and users of your sales system (3WaySales), inventory management system (ConeyGo), payroll management system (SkyPepl), as well as the corporate systems for messaging (ChiliChat), email servers (Cheeze-email), Marketing (Skyliners), and accounting (Accounting) as well as all the MIS Infrastructures that will need to be managed. Discuss steps needed regarding your infrastructure.

The goal is to think about what it means to MIS when the number of systems and users are basically doubling in size. What does it mean as far as...

• capacity planning - system managers need to plan system resources (storage space, user connectivity, licensing, etc.) to be able accommodate the number of users using the system either simultaneously or concurrently, depending on the licensing requirements.
• hardware needs - architecture managers examine the requirements of certain hardware to ensure all requirements are met for server and desktop equipment.
• software demand - system managers examine the requirements of certain software to ensure all requirements are met for system programs.

What do you think you might need to change, with regards to systems, to accommodate this sudden growth of users? Address each of the systems listed in the scenario; 3WaySales, ConeyGo, SkyPepl, ChiliChat, Cheeze-email, Skyliners, and Accounting.