Create the following components: · A system diagram that shows, in graphic form, the components of your project · Your system diagram should follow the system description you submitt
Project Plan Draft
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Project Plan Draft
Instructions: Fill out each of the sections below with information relevant to your project. Be sure to include the company name associated with your project.
| Selection Criteria Name | Selection Criteria Description | Selection Criteria Value (Weighting In Points) |
| LAN | Used to connect a group of computers or low voltage devices in a short distance | 4 |
| WAN | Connects computers in a longer distance | 6 |
| WLAN | Like WiFi. Doesn’t need physical devices | 9 |
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| Recommended Network Technologies | Description | Benefits | Aggregate Selection Criteria Score |
| Software defining network | Will communicate with apps programming interface and allow control of virtual level resources | Cost effective, manageable, adaptable and flexible | 3 |
| Multi-cloud technology | Uses more than two public clouds and many private clouds | Enables easy storing of data | 6 |
| Edge computing | Brings target applications closer to the action source | Secured data, cheaper storing services | 7 |
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| Selection Criteria Name | Selection Criteria Description | Selection Criteria Value (Weighting In Points) |
| Setting company needs | Help us to know the vendor qualities that we need | 3 |
| Find the best vendor | We shall hold discussions with clients of other vendors to give us their experiences | 7 |
| Have agents | Agents will bring their proposals for vetting | 6 |
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| Vendor Name | Vendor Strengths | Vendor Weaknesses | Products / Services Provided To Project | Aggregate Selection Criteria Score |
| Alloys | Cost effective, good customer service | Heavily affected by storms or bad weather | Encryption technology for the company, protecting the company against external intruders | 4 |
| Cisco | Fast network, 24-hour customer service | Very expensive | Provide us with heavy network in the company | 8 |
| Aruba | Good network, cheap costs | Slows down when using their systems | Gives us software to be used in the company, ensures that the software is always checked and maintained | 3 |
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| Deployment Challenge | Deployment Challenge Description |
| Deploying physical over logical | In physical networks, the appliances are connected using protocols, there is the use of different traffic that is agnostic to physical and must run them |
| Scalable and automatic deployment | Networks need to be not only automatic, but also scalable in nature |
| Deployment that is resilient | Network must be able to adjust to faults. The systems are prone to errors, but they must detect this and work on it |
| Bring your own physical network | When deploying the network in a data center, infrastructure running a deployment that is automated and faster |
| Method Name | Method Description |
| Align technology and strategy | The technology must meet the needs of the organization and should not be adopted because of the company’s name |
| There should be buy-ins communicated | To use this technology, there should be communication with the stakeholders about the technology |
| The system that is current should be analyzed | This will be used to tell if there is a need for new technology or not |
| More training | Employees should be trained on the net technology and how to handle it |
| Benefits | Costs | Considerations |
| Hire more staff | $15,000 | Create more productivity |
| New block | $345,678 | To install the new technological items and computers |
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| Selection Criteria Name | Selection Criteria Description | Selection Criteria Value (Weighting In Points) |
| Defining terms of reference of study | The purpose which the project needs to be undertaken | 4 |
| Shortlisting 2-3 products | Choosing the DDBS from some of the products that match the main concept | 7 |
| Evaluating the products | This ensures that the analysis is deeper for the shortlisted DDBS | 5 |
| Recommend selection | This will give findings after the research and analyses for the right company | 8 |
| Recommended Database System | Description | Benefits | Aggregate Selection Criteria Score |
| Desktop database | Allow users to enter data and store it in a logical manner | Enable speed changing of data and storing it in large amounts | 3 |
| Relational database | Has a set of tables called schema which creates a database in one server | Allows the user to store multiple items compared to a desktop | 6 |
| Object oriented | Build bookshelves of elements and allow access per bookshelf | Allows storage for larger bits of data | 8 |
| Normalization | Processes and breaks up data into smaller bits | This helps if one is sorting the documents using first and last names for example | 6 |
| Selection Criteria Name | Selection Criteria Description | Selection Criteria Value (Weighting In Points) |
| Cost | Database must be cost effective for the company | 1 |
| Quality and safety | The database should not fail, security is of utmost priority | 3 |
| Risk | Database should be free from all types of attacks | 4 |
| Convenience | Must be convenient for use in the company | 5 |
| Vendor Name | Vendor Strengths | Vendor Weaknesses | Products / Services Provided To Project | Aggregate Selection Criteria Score |
| Oracle | Powerful and complex, with cloud support | | Manages databases as consolidated cloud services and ensures staff training | 5 |
| Microsoft SQL | Most used | | Sports BI tools and comes with MS work, Excel and Sharepoint | 6 |
| Microsoft Access | Used for e-commercial sites | | Comes with MS office suite and is easy to use and run | 7 |
| Teradata | Very large database | | Able to handle large volumes of data and a choice for larger companies | 8 |
| Deployment Challenge | Deployment Challenge Description |
| Data security | There has been increased incidences of hacking and data theft |
| Performance | The performance of databases sometimes may not satisfy a larger company |
| High availability | When the server is down, then the company has issues with downtime |
| Data safety | The data has times that may be affected by issues of computer errors |
| Method Name | Method Description |
| Align technology and strategy | The tech must meet the needs of the organization and should not be adopted just because of the company’s name |
| Buy-ins should be communicated | To use this tech, there should be communication with the stakeholders |
| Current system should be analyzed | This will give insight as to whether new tech is needed |
| Training | All employees should be trained to standard |
| Benefits | Costs | Considerations |
| Buying a new database system | $500,000 | Will help the company to store its growing amount of data and make for easier retrieval |
| More employees and IT experts | $150,000 | Ensure that there is enough personnel to maintain up time and project completion |
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| Selection Criteria Name | Selection Criteria Description | Selection Criteria Value (Weighting In Points) |
| Business and industry expertise | The number of people within the company who have IT skills | 4 |
| Market knowledge | Software must correspond with the market of the company | 6 |
| Program management capabilities | Program and project must be complex and be able to manage the institution | 3 |
| Communication | The program must ensure that there is good communication from each department | 8 |
| Recommended Software Application | Description | Benefits | Aggregate Selection Criteria Score |
| MS Suite | Office, Word, Excel, Access | Help to manage documents and printing | 4 |
| Internet Browsers | Chrome, Opera, Safari, Firefox | Used to access the internet | 6 |
| Mobile piece software | Skype, Slack | Used for communication, team collaboration | 8 |
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| Selection Criteria Name | Selection Criteria Description | Selection Criteria Value (Weighting In Points) |
| Defining the broad needs | Checking what type of application is needed and if it matches what is required | 3 |
| Find the expectations of the list of features | Having the specific software features which are indispensable. These are the requirements that should be clear | 6 |
| Checking the reporting capabilities | Software must be able to explain better about the summary of the company | 8 |
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| Vendor Name | Vendor Strengths | Vendor Weaknesses | Products / Services Provided To Project | Aggregate Selection Criteria Score |
| EMC | Covers all the products of software revenue | Maintenance is not included | Provides software that is sophisticated for the company | 3 |
| Salesforce | Covers software for sales service | Professional service revenues are not included | Comes with marketing applications and cloud apps that support the revenues | 7 |
| Sun Guard | Supports revenues from the FIS global | Maintenance is not included | Transactions her are calculated as derivative value which is equivalent to straight software license | 8 |
| AWS | Covers all the products of software revenue | Professional service revenues are not included | Provides software that is sophisticated enough for the company | 1 |
| Deployment Challenge | Deployment Challenge Description |
| Inadequate knowledge | Employees may not have enough information about the software, they just need to be trained more effectively |
| Performance | Performance of software sometimes will not satisfy a company, especially larger ones |
| High Availability | When the server is down, the company will suffer |
| Data Safety | Software may be affected when there are errors |
| Method Name | Method Description |
| Align tech and strategy | Tech must meet the needs of the organization |
| Buy-ins are communicated | Stakeholders must communicate about the needed and used tech |
| Current systems are analyzed | Study to see whether new tech is needed |
| Training | All employees need to be trained to standard, effective and efficient |
| Benefits | Costs | Considerations |
| New computers | $500,000 | Operation using the software |
| More staff | $150,000 | Enough employees to get the job done |
| Fiber Optics | $500,000 | Enable the fastest speeds possible, maximize work |
| VSAT | $300,000 | Used to provide satellite-based telecommunications and internet access to companies and individuals |
| Selection Criteria Name | Selection Criteria Description | Selection Criteria Value (Weighting In Points) |
| Cost | Cloud must be cost effective | 8 |
| Quality and safety | Cloud should not have extended downtime | 10 |
| Risk | Anti-virus and firewalls should protect from hacks and data theft | 4 |
| Convenience | Convenient for the company all the time | 3 |
| Recommended Cloud Services | Description | Benefits | Aggregate Selection Criteria Score |
| Dropbox | 2gb limit | Used for light browsers | 9 |
| Google Drive | 15gb capacity | Used for teams and collabs | 10 |
| MS OneDrive | 5gb limit | For Windows programs | 9 |
| Box | 10gb capacity | For Enterprise solutions | 6 |
| Selection Criteria Name | Selection Criteria Description | Selection Criteria Value (Weighting In Points) |
| Comply with standards | Standards set by the government for cloud service providers | 4 |
| Service Roadmap | Current objectives of the company are catered in the project | 8 |
| Data Security | Providers can give security of the data so that it can’t be hacked | 9 |
| Terms of service | Adequate customer support strategies that lead to customer satisfaction | 4 |
| Vendor Name | Vendor Strengths | Vendor Weaknesses | Products / Services Provided To Project | Aggregate Selection Criteria Score |
| AWS | Power, storage | | Help users to integrate, flexible and reliable | 3 |
| Google Cloud | Leading provider | | Used for searches, data analysis and storage | 5 |
| IBM Cloud | Fast, improves upon customer satisfaction | | PaaS, IaaS | 6 |
| Adobe Cloud | Video editing, development of webs | | Storage of pictures, data etc. | 7 |
| Deployment Challenge | Deployment Challenge Description |
| Data Security | Increased hacking and data theft |
| Performance | May not always satisfy large companies |
| High availability | If the server goes down, the company suffers |
| Data safety | Errors affect the data |
| Method Name | Method Description |
| Align tech and strategy | Must always meet the needs of the company |
| Buy-ins communicated | Communication with the stakeholders is imperative |
| Current system analyzed | Analyze to find out if new tech is truly needed |
| Training | All employees trained, effectively and efficiently |
| Benefits | Costs | Considerations |
| Hire more staff | $150,000 | Control and manage the cloud services |
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