The purpose of this paper is to design a Web-based system

The purpose of this paper is to design a Web-based system where my regional offices can

submit their sales reports online instead of filling them out by hand and mailing them in. Three

candidate solutions have been identified. Their estimated lifetime benefits and estimated lifetime

costs are shown below. All have been time-adjusted over the projected five-year lifetime of each

alternative.

• You are working as a system designer for a company that manufactures heavy-duty

power tools used by contractors. Every month, your regional sales and service centers

batch together the hard copy repair orders for work performed under warranty. They are

sent to headquarters, where they are run through a legacy mainframe batch process. A

report is then generated, which the engineers analyze for signs of any problem trends

in the new models. The company's CEO has decided that this process is far too slow in

today's highly competitive business environment and wants to replace the legacy system

as soon as possible with something more contemporary. Prepare an estimated cost for

client-server system alternative as illustrated in Figure 11-2.

• Identify at least three candidate solutions and describe them in a candidate solutions

matrix using Figures 11-6 and 11-7 as examples.

• Prepare a feasibility analysis matrix, using candidate solutions you identified and

described in part b. Use Figures 11-8 and 11-9 as your template, but choose the

weighting factors that you feel would be most appropriate in this situation. For purposes

of this exercise, you may provide an estimate of the economic feasibility.

• Once the feasibility analysis matrix has been completed, it is time to write the feasibility

report to executive- level managers, using the appropriate format shown in Figure 11-10.

Figure 11-2