Assignment

Select 8-10 technology platforms for eCommerce to evaluate for scalability for a small business to determine potential for use with future business growth. Create a spreadsheet to evaluate each on the basis of architecture for scalability, flexibility, large scale processing, systems reliability for large scale content and media, monitoring and back up tools, disaster recovery capability, eCommerce scalability for check out pipeline and recommendation engine for eCommerce website.  Rank each based on individual application’s scalability, disaster recovery, business continuity, data storage space, and cost effectiveness.

Utilize Google Doc for the narrative components and a Google Sheet for the evaluation. 

1. In a document, describe the small business that wants to employ eCommerce (1 -2 pages).
• A description of the company, its clients and products or services.
• A description of the current technology being used for commerce.
• A description of the desired features of eCommerce solutions.
2. In a sheet with rows and columns, identify 8 – 10 technology eCommerce platforms that would meet their needs.
• In column A, give the name of the platform. 
• In column B, provide a hot link to the platform.
• In column C, provide a summary of the monthly or annual costs.
• In column D – K, provide a 3-4 sentence description and evaluation of the following areas.

1. architecture for scalability
2. flexibility
3. large scale processing
4. systems reliability for large scale content and media,
5. monitoring and back up tools
6. disaster recovery capability
7. eCommerce scalability for check out pipeline
8. Recommendation engine for eCommerce website

• In column L – P, provide a ranking where 1 is the best in that area and 8 would be the worst. 

1. Individual applications scalability.
2. Disaster recovery
3. Business opportunity
4. Data Storage
5. Cost Effectiveness

1. Using your evaluation sheet as data, provide a recommended solution for eCommerce that aligns to the stated needs.
• Support your decision with data from analysis as well as relevant resources from the course or your own research.
2. As a conclusion to this project, reflect on the process of completing this group project. 
• Describe how you distributed the tasks to be completed.
• Discuss your process for communication.
• Describe how you used technology to collaborate.
3. The case study should include the following: 
• APA Formatting including heading and subheadings. 

References

McKinney, E, & Kroenke, D. (2014). Processes, Systems, and Information: An Introduction to MIS (2nd Edition). Boston, MA: Prentice Hall.