Question: You are helping the IT team at Game Technology study several software acquisition options for their Customer Contact Care system ( C 3 ) .

You are helping the IT team at Game Technology study several software acquisition options for their Customer Contact Care system (C3). The IT team is considering two commercial software packages and an in-house development option. They prepared the following summary:

Option

Description

Costs

Benefits

Software Solutions, Inc.

Software package

Four-year useful life

Less flexible than in-house system

Some customizing needed

$8,000 to purchase

$2,000 to install and configure

$3,000 to load existing data

$1,000 additional hardware needed

$3,000 annual support fee

$8,000/yr. through positive customer response. Cannot predict other specific savings. Increased sales, improved customer care, and better productivity are expected.

CRM Corp.

Software package

six-year useful life

Less flexible than in-house system

Moderate customizing needed

Runs slower than other options

$7,000 to purchase

$1,500 to install and configure

$2,200 to load existing data

$4,000 additional hardware needed

$1,500 annual support fee in all six years

$8,000/yr. through positive customer response. Cannot predict other specific savings. Increased sales, improved customer care, and better productivity are expected.

Develop C3system in-house

In-house system

five-year useful life, can use our software and hardware

Easiest to update and maintain

$18,000 to develop, install, and configure

$2,500 to load existing data

Existing staff can handle support

$8,000/yr. through positive customer response. Cannot predict other specific savings. Increased sales, improved customer care, and better productivity are expected.

  1. Perform ROI and NPV (Use an 8% discount factor) analysis of all three software development options. Please use the Excel templates on Moodle; each calculation should be on a single worksheet. Provide SIX worksheets with appropriate titles; highlight the result on each worksheet.

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