Systems analysis project 10: can you answer the 4 questions at the task section,
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Systems analysis project 10: can you answer the 4 questions at the task section, thank you.
Personal Trainer, Inc. owns and operates fitness centers in a dozen Midwestern cities. The centers have done well, and the company is planning an international expansion by opening a new “supercenter” in the Toronto area. Personal Trainer’s president, Cassia Umi, hired an IT consultant, Susan Park, to help develop an information system for the new facility. During the project, Susan will work closely with Gray Lewis, who will manage the new operation.
Background
Susan and Gray finished their work on user interface, input, and output design. They developed a user-centered design that would be flexible and easy to learn. Now Susan turned her attention to the architecture for the new system. Susan wanted to consider their own organization and culture, enterprise resource planning, total cost of ownership, scalability, Web integration, legacy systems, processing methods, security issues, and corporate portal. She also needed to select a network plan, or topology, that would dictate the physical cabling and network connections, or consider a wireless network. When all these tasks were completed, she would submit a system design specification for approval.
Tasks:
1. What would be the advantages of selecting an Internet-based architecture for the Personal Trainer’s system?
2. If Personal Trainer wants to increase its Internet marketing efforts, what advice could you offer? Perform research to find out more about the topic of Web-based marketing before you answer Gray.
3. What software and hardware infrastructure will be necessary to ensure Personal Trainer can process point of sale transactions?
4. Prepare an outline for a system design specification and describe the contents of each section
Explanation / Answer
1. a . Digital marketing initiatives , cross selling , revenue generation from ads become easy .
b. Cost reduction due to hosting at low cost data centres is possible and no local infrastructure or upfront cost is needed , it is highly scalable also as only additional rent has to be paid as an when required. This option also provides better security as data centers have experts for each domain .
c. As the company has presence in different cities , staying connected with customers for service , feedback or managing operations becomes easy on the go .
d. Only two versions of the app is required as most smart phone users use Android or IOS in area of company's operation .Most web browsers are compatible for most OS and platforms . So not many versions are required for a large range of devices .
e. Maintenance : No manual updating on separate installations is required , just rolling out app update or updating website is sufficient .
f. The web based systems are easier to integrate with exising systems , then two proprietary systems . The company has existing infrastructure to be integrated .
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