Case Marutisuzuki Essay

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Case 1: Maruti Suzuki Business Intelligence and Enterprise Databases Case Study Questions 1. What were the business challenges facing Maruti Suzuki management prior to adopting the Oracle suite? 2. What advantages does Maruti Suzuki derive from working with a single vendor, Oracle? What are the possible risks of working with a single vendor? 3. What were the important business factors which management used to evaluate Oracle's database offerings? 4. Why was it important that a vendor's products be able to integrate with "legacy systems?" 5. What are the business benefits reported by management to using the Oracle suite of products? Q1 The biggest problem that Maruti Suzuki was facing was to grow in a competitive and dynamic market and to maintain its leading position. Without using the Oracle, the company wasn't able to coordinate all the production information that affects their cost, as a result, making the company a huge operation cost. Another problem Maruti Suzuki faced was the complexity of its information because of its 21 subsidiaries. It needs a better control on data and consolidation. After the adoption of the Oracle system, it was easy to get any data, any time from any computer that was accessible to the database. As the information flow was all in the system, their main problem was resolved. Q2 By working with one system, Oracle, the company integrated all the data of the whole productive process. This makes it easy to get access to any information that was in need. So any employee could have access to all databases within the company, making the communication and information changing easier. Besides, with one vendor, all the systems that Maruti Suzuki is using are all compatible with each other. The disadvantages of just have one information system/database are: If just a little part of one of the system gets wrong, this may
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