Project Documentation
Company Name: Capital One Bank
Network Technology Recommendations
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Network Technology Selection Criteria |
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Selection Criteria Description |
Selection Criteria Value (Weighting in Points) |
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WLAN |
Wireless network technology, like Wi-Fi, which is essential for the overall conduction of the project |
9 |
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PAN |
Revolves around one person and is also managed from a single device |
8 |
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Network Technology Recommendation |
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Recommended Network Technologies |
Description |
Benefits |
Aggregate Selection Criteria Score |
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Artificial Intelligence |
Developing the computer systems to perform tasks which include human intelligence like speech recognition, decision making, visual perception, and translation between languages |
Cost effective network designing. Combination of Human Intellect and Creativity will help beyond developing the system by managing, maintaining, and protecting it.
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Network Technology Vendor Selection Criteria |
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Selection Criteria Name |
Selection Criteria Description |
Selection Criteria Value (Weighting in Points) |
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Investment protection |
Investments made will not be lost, which may be through fraud or otherwise.
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8 |
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Meeting the companies needs |
Allows for the overall understanding and comfort that vendors will fulfill the needs of the company |
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Network Technology Recommended Vendors |
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Vendor Name |
Vendor Strengths |
Vendor Weaknesses |
Products/Services Provided to Project |
Aggregate Selection Criteria Score |
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Accuity Inc. |
Optimizes payment pathways |
A little more on the costly side |
Delivers innovative solutions for payments and compliance professionals that manage risk and compliance and optimize payment pathways
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Digital Check Corp. |
Easy to use, convenient, improves efficiency |
A little more on the costly side |
Enables, automates, and improves efficiency where payment and deposit transactions are managed in financial institutions, businesses and points in between.
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ADO-TECH |
Easy to use, convenient, protection of confidential and private customer information |
A little more on the costly side |
ADO is focused on the development, delivery, and implementation of biometric, identity management, and authentication solutions.
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Network Technology Deployment Challenges |
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Deployment Challenge |
Deployment Challenge Description |
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Application Assurance |
As we automate systems, the operators are becoming detached from the operations and need better tools to understand, help troubleshoot, and adjust policy |
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Networking Monitoring |
There isn’t a consistent set of data and how it is gathered and represented, which makes analysis and correlation challenging.
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Technology Adoption Methods |
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Method Name |
Method Description |
Monitor and course correct |
Introducing new technology is likely to cause a major disruption to workflow. Monitor your deployment and consider whether the implementation schedule may need to be revised into smaller more manageable stages. |
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Develop training approach early |
One of the biggest risks to user adoption is lack of sufficient and customized training. People need to see and play in the system, prior to go-live. |
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Cost/Benefit Considerations |
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Benefits |
Costs |
Considerations |
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More employees/staff |
$20,000 |
Improve productivity & efficiency |
Database System Recommendation
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Database System Selection Criteria |
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Selection Criteria Name |
Selection Criteria Description |
Selection Criteria Value (Weighting in Points) |
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Development considerations |
Data model, query functionality, available drivers, data consistency. These factors dictate the functionality of your application. |
9 |
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Operational considerations |
Performance and scalability, high availability, data center awareness, security, management and backups. |
9 |
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Database System Recommendation |
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Recommended Database System |
Description |
Benefits |
Aggregate Selection Criteria Score |
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Operational database |
Stores data, like customer information, inside of an enterprise. Critical to data warehousing and business analytics |
Highly available, fault-tolerant, highly scalable and highly secured |
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Database System Vendor Selection Criteria |
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Selection Criteria Name |
Selection Criteria Description |
Selection Criteria Value (Weighting in Points) |
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Cost |
Database must be cost effective for the company |
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Safety |
Database should be protected and clear from all types of attacks, hacking, and jeopardy of client information. |
9 |
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Database System Recommended Vendors |
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Vendor Name |
Vendor Strengths |
Vendor Weaknesses |
Products/Services Provided to Project |
Aggregate Selection Criteria Score |
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Oracle |
Powerful Cloud support |
Incompatibility and complexity, cost |
Multi-model database management system
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Microsoft SQL server |
Cloud database support, plenty of tools and applications |
Complex performance tuning, expensive pricing |
Supports a wide variety of transaction processing, business intelligence and analytics applications in corporate IT environments.
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Database System Deployment Challenges |
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Deployment Challenge |
Deployment Challenge Description |
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Data security |
Increased incidence of cyberhacking and data theft |
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Data safety |
When the computer is undergoing any errors, data may be affected |
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High availability |
When server is not functioning than the company cannot function well |
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Technology Adoption Methods |
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Method Name |
Method Description |
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Align technology and strategy |
The purpose of introducing new technology to a business is to improve performance. Start with the goals you want to achieve, and then plan backwards, finding a technology that best supports improved performance. |
Monitor and course correct |
Introducing new technology is likely to cause a major disruption to workflow. Monitor your deployment and consider whether the implementation schedule may need to be revised into smaller more manageable stages. |
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Develop training approach early |
One of the biggest risks to user adoption is lack of sufficient and customized training. People need to see and play in the system, prior to go-live. |
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Cost/Benefit Considerations |
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Benefits |
Costs |
Considerations |
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More employees/staff |
$14,870 |
Improve productivity & efficiency |
Software Application Recommendations
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Software Application Selection Criteria |
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Selection Criteria Name |
Selection Criteria Description |
Selection Criteria Value (Weighting in Points) |
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Market knowledge |
To be most effective, it is essential to understand business and IT need, as well as software market. |
5 |
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Communications |
When issues arise, communication helps to resolve problematic matters |
10 |
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Software Application Recommendation |
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Recommended Software Application |
Description |
Benefits |
Aggregate Selection Criteria Score |
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Internet Browser |
Software application for accessing information on the world wide web |
Security is more guaranteed to ward off viruses from the internet, so that computer data is safe from theft and damage |
8 |
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Software Application Vendor Selection Criteria |
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Selection Criteria Name |
Selection Criteria Description |
Selection Criteria Value (Weighting in Points) |
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Undertake Cost-Benefit Analysis |
It is very important to have a budget up front and sync the capabilities of the software to the budget. Also, the budget for software is not just the cost to get it developed and running, but also the cost to maintain it, and upgrade it from time to time. |
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Software Application Recommended Vendors |
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Vendor Name |
Vendor Strengths |
Vendor Weaknesses |
Products/Services Provided to Project |
Aggregate Selection Criteria Score |
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Microsoft |
Cloud database support, plenty of tools and applications |
Complex performance tuning, expensive pricing |
Supports a wide variety of transaction processing, business intelligence and analytics applications in corporate IT environments.
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Oracle |
Powerful Cloud support |
Incompatibility and complexity, cost |
Multi-model database management system
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8 |
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Amazon Web services |
Covers all products of software revenue |
Professional service revenues not included |
Provides software that is sophisticated |
8 |
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Software Application Deployment Challenges |
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Deployment Challenge |
Deployment Challenge Description |
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Data classification |
Companies use paper documents or unsystematic computer methods to record daily work, which takes a large amount of time. |
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Hidden costs |
Although a new software system is applied to cut down operation cost and simplify the system, companies must be aware of additional costs. |
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Technology Adoption Methods |
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Method Name |
Method Description |
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Align technology and strategy |
The purpose of introducing new technology to a business is to improve performance. Start with the goals you want to achieve, and then plan backwards, finding a technology that best supports improved performance. |
Monitor and course correct |
Introducing new technology is likely to cause a major disruption to workflow. Monitor your deployment and consider whether the implementation schedule may need to be revised into smaller more manageable stages. |
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Develop training approach early |
One of the biggest risks to user adoption is lack of sufficient and customized training. People need to see and play in the system, prior to go-live. |
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Cost/Benefit Considerations |
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Benefits |
Costs |
Considerations |
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Hiring new staff |
$4000 |
Ensure that the software is up and running properly without any problems |
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Purchasing new computers |
$5000 |
So that computers are compatible with the newest version of a software. |
Cloud Services Recommendations
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Cloud Services Selection Criteria |
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Selection Criteria Name |
Selection Criteria Description |
Selection Criteria Value (Weighting in Points) |
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Security |
Provider should make encryption available to protect both data at rest and data in motion and these services should work with high-performance file-transfer or data replication solutions.
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10 |
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Flexibility |
Capable of dealing with unexpected problems or tasks effectively
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Reliability |
product, system, or service will perform its intended function adequately without failure
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8 |
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Cloud Services Recommendation |
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Recommended Cloud Services |
Description |
Benefits |
Aggregate Selection Criteria Score |
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Dropbox |
Let’s anyone upload and transfer files to the cloud and share them with anyone.
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Free, easy to use, very secure, backup, file sharing and collaboration |
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Microsoft OneDrive |
Allows users to upload files and access them from Windows PCs, Macs, and mobile devices |
Free storage, easy organization, secure encryption |
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Cloud Services Vendor Selection Criteria |
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Selection Criteria Name |
Selection Criteria Description |
Selection Criteria Value (Weighting in Points) |
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BCDR |
Indicates the service provider’s ability to reinstate the hosting service after disruption due to any sort of disruptive event such as a natural disaster. |
9 |
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Private server |
A server that offers you dedicated resources without the interruption from other users. |
7 |
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Multi-layer security |
A reliable cloud service provider must be able to manage the security at all three layers: host, network, and physical setup. |
10 |
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Cloud Services Recommended Vendors |
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Vendor Name |
Vendor Strengths |
Vendor Weaknesses |
Products/Services Provided to Project |
Aggregate Selection Criteria Score |
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Google cloud |
Provide faster, innovative, and flexible resources to its customers.
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Small components, difficult to start, everything costs. |
It offers services like storage, database, networking, etc.… |
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Amazon Web Services |
These services help organizations move faster, lower IT costs, and scale.
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Technology limitations, lack of relevant knowledge by team, technical support fee. |
Amazon Web Services offers a broad set of global cloud-based products including compute, storage, databases, analytics, networking, mobile, developer tools, management tools, IoT, security and enterprise applications.
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Cloud Services Deployment Challenges |
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Deployment Challenge |
Deployment Challenge Description |
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Privacy and Security |
Cloud architecture do not automatically grant security compliance for the end-user data or apps on them, so apps written for cloud have to be secure in their own terms. Some of the responsibility for this does fall to cloud vendors. |
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Reliability and availability |
Cloud service providers still lack the round-the-clock service, this result in frequent outages. It is important to monitor the service being provided using internal or third-party tools. |
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Performance and Bandwidth Cost |
Businesses can save money on hardware, but they have to spend more for the bandwidth. This could be a low cost for small applications but can be significantly high for the data-intensive applications. |
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Technology Adoption Methods |
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Method Name |
Method Description |
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Align technology and strategy |
The purpose of introducing new technology to a business is to improve performance. Start with the goals you want to achieve, and then plan backwards, finding a technology that best supports improved performance. |
Monitor and course correct |
Introducing new technology is likely to cause a major disruption to workflow. Monitor your deployment and consider whether the implementation schedule may need to be revised into smaller more manageable stages. |
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Develop training approach early |
One of the biggest risks to user adoption is lack of sufficient and customized training. People need to see and play in the system, prior to go-live. |
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Cost/Benefit Considerations |
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Benefits |
Costs |
Considerations |
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Hire more employees |
$3000 |
Ensure control over the cloud services |