SAD Solutions LLC is a multinational technical solution provider. SAD's mission is to provide technical solutions...

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SAD Solutions LLC is a multinational technical solution provider. SAD's mission is to provide technical solutions that best fit their client's needs. From developing a database for a family owned restaurant to integrating a disaster recovery plan for a multi-billion dollar organization, SAD provides a magnitude of services. You are a independently owned company that is in the process of being purchased, with a condition, to become a subsidiary company of SAD Solutions LLC. In the future, SAD plans to use your company to develop technical solution for SAD clients. Your company is extremely excited for this new venture due to the opportunities that will become available. SAD heard that your company had great reviews from past clients. One of the unique features of your company is that the members all work remotely. This saves money on overhead items such as "brick and mortar" office expenses. C. The Project In order to complete the purchasing process, SAD created a condition in the purchasing agreement. The condition is for your company to locate an organization that is in need of an IT system and run through the System Development Life Cycle. As stated above, SAD heard wonderful reviews about your company. However, the policy of SAD Solutions LLC is to contract a company for a project and monitor the lifecycle of the project. If that project is successful by SAD standards, the company is integrated into the SAD family. SAD understands that a life-cycle of a project can take a long time. Due to the time constraint on the purchasing contract, your company will present an in-depth project report and demo/prototype of the system to a panel of SAD judges. The judges will play the role of the clients while reading the report and testing the demo. The report should be used as a selling point of your company's services. The judges will use the judging criteria to see if your company operates in SAD standards. The report will need to contain the following components: A. Consulting Information (You) Note: This section should be fictional. You can be creative. I DO NOT want you to write this report as "I am a student and this is my project." Write this as if you are in industry. Background o Background, resumes, kill set, etc. • History Be inventive • Organizational Chart • Departments Mission Statement B. Client Information • Background • History • Organizational Chart Departments • Mission Statement • Business Model C. Preliminary Investigation Systems Request Summary Copy of the Request for Information Services • • Define the project scope and constraints • Preliminary Investigation Findings Fact-Finding • Interview • Who, When, Where, What was said... • Review Current Documents Observe Operations • Survey • Determine Feasibility o Feasibility Study • Recommendations • Estimate Time and Cost to Continue development Note: Include Project management software screen shots. o Cost-Analysis Deliverables o Cost-Analysis Deliverables • Expected Benefits D. Current System Information Define the System, The functions, The processes of the functions, Source documents, Etc. E. Proposed System Information Systems Requests Form System Requirements • Why have the system • SWOT Analysis • Define the System • o Type of system o Enterprise computing systems Transaction processing systems Business support systems Knowledge management systems • • User productivity systems • TCO • System documentation o Diagrams • FDD o Context Diagram DFD DFD ERD - If the system is a database. Data Dictionary - If the system is a database. Screen layouts • Alternative Evaluation F. Prototype Demo of the Prototype o Sent by way of files (i.e. access database) o Instructions on how to use the prototype G. Project Plan Project Schedule • System Changeover • Training o User Documentation • Support o Help desk Future Upgrades H. Meeting Minutes Meeting notes from start and end of the project Time and Date Attendees Old Topics • Current Topics o Tasks that were assigned and what were the findings New Topics in p • New Topics I K. Project/Client Tasks and who is assigned to that task The system does not have to be for the entire organization. The system can be just for a department of the organization. The organization can be large or can be small. • An acceptable system for this project is not just a website. If the website is tied into a database, that would be acceptable. An example would be an online inventory system. As for clients for the project, you have a couple of options. • Option 1. You can use an actual organization. Example: an inventory for a comic book store. The pervious inventory was a loose leaf notebook. • Option 2. You can use a fictions organization. • Remember, just doing a website is not acceptable. Option 3. If you can't find a client, I have multiple projects for organizations | manage. A nonprofit organization that needs a system (database) to store information regarding a fund raiser. A club at my campus performs a service that is in need of a system to track help-desk tickets. A catholic elementary school uses a book check-out system at their library. The problem is the system is located on the librarian's computer. The students have to use the librarian's computer to look up books before they check the books out. The librarian would like to see if there is a way to setup a laptop for students to look up the books without using the librarian's computer. Creating an app for grading a group project for a residential course. The grading app will need to be accessed by multiple people at the same time. SAD Solutions LLC is a multinational technical solution provider. SAD's mission is to provide technical solutions that best fit their client's needs. From developing a database for a family owned restaurant to integrating a disaster recovery plan for a multi-billion dollar organization, SAD provides a magnitude of services. You are a independently owned company that is in the process of being purchased, with a condition, to become a subsidiary company of SAD Solutions LLC. In the future, SAD plans to use your company to develop technical solution for SAD clients. Your company is extremely excited for this new venture due to the opportunities that will become available. SAD heard that your company had great reviews from past clients. One of the unique features of your company is that the members all work remotely. This saves money on overhead items such as "brick and mortar" office expenses. C. The Project In order to complete the purchasing process, SAD created a condition in the purchasing agreement. The condition is for your company to locate an organization that is in need of an IT system and run through the System Development Life Cycle. As stated above, SAD heard wonderful reviews about your company. However, the policy of SAD Solutions LLC is to contract a company for a project and monitor the lifecycle of the project. If that project is successful by SAD standards, the company is integrated into the SAD family. SAD understands that a life-cycle of a project can take a long time. Due to the time constraint on the purchasing contract, your company will present an in-depth project report and demo/prototype of the system to a panel of SAD judges. The judges will play the role of the clients while reading the report and testing the demo. The report should be used as a selling point of your company's services. The judges will use the judging criteria to see if your company operates in SAD standards. The report will need to contain the following components: A. Consulting Information (You) Note: This section should be fictional. You can be creative. I DO NOT want you to write this report as "I am a student and this is my project." Write this as if you are in industry. Background o Background, resumes, kill set, etc. • History Be inventive • Organizational Chart • Departments Mission Statement B. Client Information • Background • History • Organizational Chart Departments • Mission Statement • Business Model C. Preliminary Investigation Systems Request Summary Copy of the Request for Information Services • • Define the project scope and constraints • Preliminary Investigation Findings Fact-Finding • Interview • Who, When, Where, What was said... • Review Current Documents Observe Operations • Survey • Determine Feasibility o Feasibility Study • Recommendations • Estimate Time and Cost to Continue development Note: Include Project management software screen shots. o Cost-Analysis Deliverables o Cost-Analysis Deliverables • Expected Benefits D. Current System Information Define the System, The functions, The processes of the functions, Source documents, Etc. E. Proposed System Information Systems Requests Form System Requirements • Why have the system • SWOT Analysis • Define the System • o Type of system o Enterprise computing systems Transaction processing systems Business support systems Knowledge management systems • • User productivity systems • TCO • System documentation o Diagrams • FDD o Context Diagram DFD DFD ERD - If the system is a database. Data Dictionary - If the system is a database. Screen layouts • Alternative Evaluation F. Prototype Demo of the Prototype o Sent by way of files (i.e. access database) o Instructions on how to use the prototype G. Project Plan Project Schedule • System Changeover • Training o User Documentation • Support o Help desk Future Upgrades H. Meeting Minutes Meeting notes from start and end of the project Time and Date Attendees Old Topics • Current Topics o Tasks that were assigned and what were the findings New Topics in p • New Topics I K. Project/Client Tasks and who is assigned to that task The system does not have to be for the entire organization. The system can be just for a department of the organization. The organization can be large or can be small. • An acceptable system for this project is not just a website. If the website is tied into a database, that would be acceptable. An example would be an online inventory system. As for clients for the project, you have a couple of options. • Option 1. You can use an actual organization. Example: an inventory for a comic book store. The pervious inventory was a loose leaf notebook. • Option 2. You can use a fictions organization. • Remember, just doing a website is not acceptable. Option 3. If you can't find a client, I have multiple projects for organizations | manage. A nonprofit organization that needs a system (database) to store information regarding a fund raiser. A club at my campus performs a service that is in need of a system to track help-desk tickets. A catholic elementary school uses a book check-out system at their library. The problem is the system is located on the librarian's computer. The students have to use the librarian's computer to look up books before they check the books out. The librarian would like to see if there is a way to setup a laptop for students to look up the books without using the librarian's computer. Creating an app for grading a group project for a residential course. The grading app will need to be accessed by multiple people at the same time.