Cocomet Industries is a small Canadian company that designs, installs, and maintains industrial control systems for the power-generating industry. All design work is conducted out of their offices in Calgary by a team of 10 engineers. Manufacturing of the control systems is contracted out to an independent company in China, and all customized programming is completed by a different independent company in India. Parts are shipped to customer sites around the world and installed by Cocomet supervised contractors at the customer site. Cocomet has offices around the world to market their custom designed systems. Most offices consist of one or two sales staff. Some offices have resident engineers if the market supports it. All office communication is currently done by phone, courier, email, and fax. All design plans and programming requirements are also shared with the independent companies in the same manner. Cocomet has experienced some delays and problems getting current information to their manufacturing and programing team. Cocomet currently has the direct responsibility of payroll for approximately 100 engineers, office, and sales staff worldwide. All staff is paid by cheque drawn from a Canadian bank and delivered by postal mail. Tracking the activity of these employees and all related HR data has proven to be a challenge. Monitoring of the installed control systems is currently done locally by Cocomet-trained individuals, but recently, they have run into issues that have caused lots of downtimes. They wish to move all monitoring activities back to the Calgary office to increase efficiency and decrease downtime. Engineers in the Calgary office can then take whatever action necessary to keep these custom designed systems running at peak efficiency. The company executive have wondered if they can leverage the “cloud” to assist them with the problems they are currently having and have hired you as a consultant to help guide them through the process. They are especially concerned with maintaining the integrity of their proprietary intellectual property and maintaining compliance with all current data privacy laws. write 1000 words on what recommendations would you make to Cocomet in reply to their desire to increase efficiency and improve their data security in paragraph form

Cocomet Industries is a small Canadian company that designs, installs, and maintains industrial control systems for the power-generating industry. All design work is conducted out of their offices in Calgary by a team of 10 engineers. Manufacturing of the control systems is contracted out to an independent company in China, and all customized programming is completed by a different independent company in India. Parts are shipped to customer sites around the world and installed by Cocomet supervised contractors at the customer site. Cocomet has offices around the world to market their custom designed systems. Most offices consist of one or two sales staff. Some offices have resident engineers if the market supports it. All office communication is currently done by phone, courier, email, and fax. All design plans and programming requirements are also shared with the independent companies in the same manner. Cocomet has experienced some delays and problems getting current information to their manufacturing and programing team. Cocomet currently has the direct responsibility of payroll for approximately 100 engineers, office, and sales staff worldwide. All staff is paid by cheque drawn from a Canadian bank and delivered by postal mail. Tracking the activity of these employees and all related HR data has proven to be a challenge. Monitoring of the installed control systems is currently done locally by Cocomet-trained individuals, but recently, they have run into issues that have caused lots of downtimes. They wish to move all monitoring activities back to the Calgary office to increase efficiency and decrease downtime. Engineers in the Calgary office can then take whatever action necessary to keep these custom designed systems running at peak efficiency. The company executive have wondered if they can leverage the “cloud” to assist them with the problems they are currently having and have hired you as a consultant to help guide them through the process. They are especially concerned with maintaining the integrity of their proprietary intellectual property and maintaining compliance with all current data privacy laws. write 1000 words on what recommendations would you make to Cocomet in reply to their desire to increase efficiency and improve their data security in paragraph form