For this assignment, you must conduct a business needs assessment and requirements determination for your chosen organization and verbally present your findings in a video.

Conduct a business needs assessment by developing an application and data inventory repository matrix or table, similar to the ones shown below. You may use network inventory tools like Open-AudIT (open source), Manage Engine System Inventory Tool, SolarWinds, Belarc Advisor, or any other open-source tool for network and application inventory.

Server Name

Operating System/

version/patches

Role

CPU Speed

RAM

1

h1srv.edpncu.edu

Microsoft Windows Server 2012

R2, Service Pack 1

Domain Controller

(16) 2.66 GHz Intel Xeon

128

2

h2srv.edpncu.edu

Microsoft Windows Server

2012 R2, Service Pack 1

Point of Sale ERP

(16) 2.66 GHz Intel Xeon

128

3

h4srv.ncu.edu

Microsoft Windows Server

2012 R2, Service Pack 1

Microsoft Hyper-V

Virtual Server

(16) 2.66 GHz Intel Xeon

128

Table 1. Sample Server Inventory Diagram

Application

Type (In-house dev., Licensed, COTS)

#Licenses

Windows 10

License

100

MS Office

COTS

100

MS-Project

COTS

20

MS-Visio

COTS

5

Microsoft Dynamics – ERP

COTS – Point of Sale Terminal

100

ORACLE-DBMS

License

20

Time & Billing

In-house Development

Table 2. Sample Application Inventory Diagram

Indicate the critical parameters and configuration settings that must be described in policies, standards, and procedures.
Use the Kaltura video capturing tool to present the results of your business needs assessment (matrix or tool report), and its impact on policy development, configuration, and management. (A Kaltura Capture tutorial is provided in the weekly resources.) Your 3 to 5-minute video presentation should contain the following:

Description and purpose of the assessment process as part of the IT Policy strategy planning
Explanation of the importance of the current platform, device, and software assets
Explanation of the impact of developing or updating policies, standards, and procedures
Explanation of the processing controls critical enough to be specified in the policies
Recommendation of specific standard controls for network parameter settings, such as group policies, password policies, database standard validation rules, input, processing and output rules for application design and development, and standard data center controls
Reference to at least 3 academic sources.

Create a summary of your presentation in a separate document. Include full citations for each reference.