M-Commerce

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Module Title: M Commerce Lecturer: Santhosh John Hand-out Date: 4

th March 2016

Date of Submission: 1

st May 2016

Assignment Title: Individual assignment

Assignment Type: Individual (Resit)

Estimated Time (hrs): 32

Learning Outcomes Assessed (or on separate sheet)

As on assignment

Assessment Criteria (or on separate sheet) Max Awarded

1. Individual topic paper

100

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Assessor’s signature: Date: Final Mark

Note 1. If you are unable to submit your work due to extenuating circumstances you may apply for an extension.

2. The penalty for late submission is 10% of the mark awarded for each calendar week or part of calendar week late.

The MEC policy on Assessed Coursework applies to this coursework. You are advised to read the guidelines in the PG student handbook:

Individual Assignment -Fall 2016(Resit)

Mobile Commerce (ECM81IS) Submission Date: 24

th December 2016

Total Marks: 100

Introduction This is an individual assignment aimed to give the student exposure to the concepts, principles tools and techniques underpinning M Commerce and their application. This also provides an opportunity for the students to recommend a mobile solution to a business and functional requirements provided. Background of the assignment This assignment is an opportunity for the student to analyze the requirements, evaluate methodologies and tools and to apply the chosen methods and tools to design a software system for a realistic scenario provided. This assignment requires the compilation and presentation of the findings/discussion in the format of a report inclusive of design diagrams– well edited, attractive, professionally laid out and academically sound. Outcomes of the assignment

1. Apply understanding of the underlying principles, tools and techniques to discuss and

evaluate the impact of M-commerce and the applications that support it.

2. Strategically align business models and objectives with M-commerce solutions.

3. Analyze business and functional requirements, investigate and recommend mobile

solutions.

4. Critically review legal, political and social issues that apply to mobile commerce.

Assignment tasks Task 1 Discuss and evaluate the main trends in mobile computing within the context of M- Commerce. Your discussion should analyze the extent of wireless-network, trend towards mobility and portability of devices and applications that implements innovative ways of using pervasive computing. Your evaluation should have the support of a realistic M- Commerce solution of your choice. Your discussion/evaluation should be furnished as a write up of 800 words of your own apart from the reference/d contents.

(20 Marks)

Task 2 “Mobile Application Development Technologies like J2ME, Android, WML and WMLS … in association with XML Web services provided an opportunity to extend traditional E- Commerce applications to perform on Mobile clients”. Critically evaluate how this transition strategically align business model with the support of necessary cases of your choice of domain. Your evaluation should be furnished as a write up of 700 words of your own apart from the reference/d contents.

(20 Marks) Task 3 Produce a proposal for the development of a realistic Mobile Commerce application for the business scenario provided. Your proposal should have the recommendation of an appropriate mobile technology for the development, wireless network technology for the communication, and portable/handheld devices with proper justification. Your proposal should provide a simple screen prototype/story board for the proposed sales order suite. Your recommendations should be justified with adequate supporting points. Your proposal should be furnished as a write up of 1000 words of your own apart from the reference/d contents and screens.

(30 Marks)

Task 4 “Apart from the technology aspects, many other factors too need to be considered prior launching a Mobile Commerce application to a business domain”. Critically evaluate the legal and social issues that are applicable to the Mobile Commerce application proposed for Task 3. Your evaluation should be furnished as a write up of 500 words of your own apart from the reference/d contents.

(20 Marks)

Task 5

Be ready for a viva with your teacher to demonstrate your knowledge with concepts incorporated on the assignment.

(10 Marks) Note: Task 5 is compulsory. No marks will be awarded to tasks 1-4 without viva

Business Scenario

Al-Arabia Surgical Equipment Suppliers LLC is a leading Surgical Equipment supplier in

Sultanate. The Al-Arabia Managing Director has just returned from a trade fair with some

disturbing news. Couple of their competitors are actively exploring the use of mobile

technologies within their sales process! The Managing Director has requested the Business

IT Manager, Mr. Salim-Al-Harthy, to propose and prototype a new M-Commerce

application for the sales process of Al-Arabia.

You have been delegated this task by Salim-Al-Harthy.

Business Process This is a real-world example, so the business processes need careful explanation. The

existing (old) process and details of the new network-based process are outlined in detail

below.

Existing Business Process

Order Processing System Salespersons are allocated to various places of the Sultanate. Salespersons visit and sell

the surgical equipments to the Doctors who work at the Hospitals. These equipments need

to be updated on a regular basis as technology improves. The relationship is therefore

between the doctor and the firm represented by the salesperson. The salesperson has a

visit plan per month to visit hospitals which have existing customers (doctors) and also

visits the hospitals looking for new customers. The visit involves talking to doctors(s) for a

short period of time to discuss requirements and new products available from the firm.

Each customer has a customer number. If the customer wishes to place an order then this

is all completed on paper. A pre-printed order form is completed by the salesperson and

signed by the doctor. The order form has a number, date and details of the products

ordered and the total value of the order. The salesman derives all the product information

from a product catalogue manual. The product catalogue is printed at the start of each

calendar year and is updated via paper inserts during the year. Each product has a product

code, description, unit of measure, price.

The order form is in duplicate and a copy is left with the customer. The other copy is sent

in to the firm by overnight post but the salesperson telephones the details of the order

through to the office usually on the same day (typically after leaving the customer or at the

end of day).

Guidelines Follow the guidelines mentioned below for your assignment.

 Assignment should be typed and an electronic copy is to be submitted through moodle

 Handwritten assignments will not be accepted  The assignment should not be more than 15 pages in (size A4) paper.

Minimum acceptable size is 8 pages.  Assignment should have Complete and sign the cover sheet with the

following information  Assignment Name  Class  Student name  Student ID

 It should have Table of Contents  Use page numbers  Assignment should be typed in your own words using Times New Roman

font size 12.  Heading should be with Font Size 14, Bold, Underline  Use Diagrams and Examples to explain your topic, provided citation, if

applicable.  You are encouraged to refer the books in Library or use internet resource or

computer magazines or any other resource but you should not cut/copy and paste from internet. The report should be in your own words.

 Copy paste from the Internet is strictly not acceptable.  Reference should be included in the last page as follows

 Author name, Book Title, Publisher, Year in case of books  In case of web site references type the full path of the web page with

referenced date  In case of magazines/ periodicals type article name, magazine name,

Issue Number and date

Regulations

 Work submitted up to 1 week (5 working days) after the due date for submission will

lose 10% of the obtained mark (after internal moderation).

 Work submitted after this, but up to 2 weeks (10 working days) late will lose 20% of the

overall mark.

 Work tendered for submission more than 2 weeks (10 working days) after the due date

will not be accepted and an absence will be recorded for the assessment concerned.

This will count as a failed attempt and may result in you failing the module overall.

Plagiarism policy

As per MEC policy, any form of violation of academic integrity will invite severe penalty.

Plagiarised documents, in part or in whole, submitted by the students will be subject to

this policy. A. First offence of plagiarism

a. A student will be allowed to re-submit the assignment once, within a maximum period of one week. However, a penalty of deduction of 25% of the marks obtained for the resubmitted work will be imposed.

b. Mark deduction: When the work is resubmitted, the marking will be undertaken according to the marking criteria. In compliance with this policy, the 25% deduction is then made on the marks obtained. For example, in an assessment that carries a maximum of 50 marks, suppose a student were to obtain 30 marks for the resubmitted work, the final marks for that assessment will be 22.5 (after deducting 25% of the marks actually obtained for the resubmitted work).

c. Period of resubmission: The student will have to resubmit the work one week from the date he or she is advised to resubmit. For example, if the formal advice to resubmit was communicated to the student on a Sunday (latest by 5 pm), the student will have to resubmit the work latest by next Sunday 5 pm.

d. If the re-submitted work is also detected to be plagiarized, then the work will be

awarded a zero.

e. Resubmission of the work beyond the maximum period of one week will not be accepted and the work will be awarded a zero.

B. Any further offence of plagiarism

a. If any student is again caught in an act of plagiarism during his/her course of study (either in the same module, same semester or in any other semester), the student will directly be awarded zero for the work in which plagiarism is detected. In such cases, the student will not be allowed to re-submit the work.

C. Guidelines

a. Type 1: In case plagiarism is detected in any component or part submission (submitted at different times) of one assessment (assignment), the deduction in marks will be applicable for the whole assessment (assignment), even if only the component or part submission alone needs to be resubmitted.

b. Type 2: In case plagiarism is detected in a group assessment, all students of the group will be considered as having committed an act of plagiarism irrespective of whether plagiarism is on account of the act of all or a few or only one member. The policy will then be applied to all students.

c. Type 3: Combination of Type 1 and Type 2: In case plagiarism is detected in any component or part submission (submitted at different times) of a group assessment (assignment), the deduction in marks will be applicable for the whole assessment (assignment), even if only the component or part submission alone needs to be resubmitted. All students of the group would be considered as having committed an act of plagiarism irrespective of whether plagiarism is on account of the act of all or a few or only one member. The policy will then be applied to all the students of the group.

d. Type 4: Variation of Type 1 and Type 2: In cases where the assessment consists of

components or part submissions that could be a group assessment component (e.g.

group assignment) and an individual assessment component (e.g. individual

reflection), the following will be applicable:

1. If plagiarism is detected in the group assessment component, all students of the group will be considered as having committed an act of plagiarism, irrespective of whether plagiarism is on account of the act of all or a few or only one member. The policy will then be applied to all students of the group. In such cases the group assessment component will be resubmitted as per the policy.

2. If plagiarism is detected in the individual assessment component, the individual

assessment component will be resubmitted as per the policy. The policy will

then be applied to that student alone.

3. In both cases (a) and/or (b), the deduction in marks will be applicable for

the whole assessment (assignment).

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D. Amount of similar material

a. The total amount of similar material in any form of student work from all sources put together should not exceed 30% (including direct quotations).

b. The total amount of quoted material (direct quotations) in any form of student work from

all sources put together should not exceed 10%.

c. The total amount of similar material in any form of student work from a single source should not exceed 7 percent. However, cases having a similarity of less than 7 percent in such cases may still be investigated by the faculty depending on the seriousness of the case.

d. If faculty member find enough merit in the case of a student work with a similarity (with a single source) of more than 7 percent as not a case of plagiarism, the faculty member should provide detailed comments/remarks to justify the case.

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Mobile Commerce (Resit)

Fall 2016

Student Id______________Student Name:_______________________________

Assignment Evaluation Grid

Deliverables Aspects 0 1-7 8-14 15-20 Marks

Task 1 Technology Evaluation

Weak/Plagiariz ed content/ No

report/No Presentation

Discussion on wireless and mobile technology with respect to M Commerce with minimal points

and without a specific case.

Good Discussion on wireless and mobile

technology with respect to M

Commerce with general case.

Excellent Discussion on wireless and

mobile technology with respect to M Commerce with a

specific case.

Deliverables Aspects 0 1-7 8-14 15-20 Marks

Task 2 Critical Evaluation

on business strategy

alignment with respect

to M- Commerce

Weak/Plagiariz ed content/ No

report/No Presentation

Partial evaluation on the

migration with XML Webservices and Mobile application

development technologies.

Good evaluation on the migration with XML Webservices

and Mobile application

development technologies

(Generic Case support provided)

Excellent evaluation on the migration with

XML Webservices and Mobile application

development technologies.

(Specific Case support provided)

Deliverables Aspects 0 1-8

Identification of appropriate mobile technology,

communication channel, and devices with minimum

justification.

9-20 21-30 Marks

Task 3

Proposal on technology and devices

Weak/Plagiariz ed content/ No

report/No Presentation

Recommendation of appropriate mobile

technology, communication

channel, and devices with justification and

without screens/prototype.

.

Recommendation of appropriate mobile

technology, communication

channel, and devices with complete and

exceptional justification along

with screens/prototype.

Marks

Deliverables

Task 4

Aspects

Critical Evaluation

on legal and social issues

0

Weak/Plagiariz ed content/ No

report/No Presentation

1-7

Partial and general evaluation on legal and social issues on

MCommerce.

8-14

Good and specific evaluation on legal

and social issues on MCommerce

application proposed for task 3

15-20

Excellent and exceptional

evaluation on legal and social issues on

MCommerce application proposed

for task 3

Marks

Deliverables

Task 5

Aspects

Presentation and viva

0

No Viva/ No Presentation

1-10

Marks are allocated as per the presentation evaluation grid

Marks

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Signature of evaluator:

Total Marks

Penalty

Final Marks

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Presentation Evaluation Grid (Task 5)

Evaluation Criteria Range of Marks Marks

Quiz/Viva 0-5

Presentation Content, slide Show

0-3

Presentation Skill 0-2

Total