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Major Report 1 Specification You have been hired as an Information Systems consultant to examine Indian Railways Information Systems – specifically The Reservation System. The Indian Railways come with East, West, North, South and Central Zones and serves over 50 million passengers daily. The reservation services include initial query about seat availability, booking, confirmation, cancellation, and a myriad of associated services. The Railway Board has undergone some major changes in membership recently, and this has generated new thinking to modernise the Railways. The Board is keen to se efficiency in almost all aspects and as the Reservation System is a major interface between the public and Railways, would like to see higher levels of efficiency in this domain. Your task is to develop a Business Systems Plan (with full justification as to how these are applicable to the organisation) so as to accommodate comprehensive mobile access to various reservation services provided by the Railways. Your task is to develop a planning document that details how a mobile access system can be comprehensively implemented.
You can use your imagination but MUST address the following:
1. Any potential customer of the Railways must be able to securely access all information aspects pertaining to services offered using a variety of mobile devices.
2. The planning should involve provision for security, privacy and other user and organizational concerns.
3. Your planning should identity the various security configuration options available on the market.
4. The planning should include consideration of various operating systems needed for this implementation, and these should be properly segmented and structured.
5. The planning should also indicate a provisional list of expense items.
You don’t have to provide a costing now, as this will be done in the second assignment. You will prepare a planning document, in the form of a report, considering the Railways Reservation System, on how the above aspects can be accommodated. The planning document is a report covering all aspects stated above in a succinct manner. You have been given a word limit of 1500 words (excluding references). You must state your assumptions clearly and validate the stated assumptions through proper literature search. You may use any format for the report. The Internet provides many

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