2. The purpose of this presentation is to make a better system for our bookstore at Mountain View. The current system is not up to standards and needs to be improved. The following presentation will show you what needs improvement. Overview
3. To provide adequate service to customers To maximize efficiency in the new system Improve productivity To provide training, if needed, for the new system To improve the old system in everyway To make the bookstore easier for the employee’s and customers Primary Objectives
4. For development strategies, there are several software alternatives to pick from. Some, namely, are outsourcing, Make/Build or Buy, and Software Package Outsourcing is having a different company run your system for you, for a price. You’d have the system in the bookstore, but run by a company. This is the most common alternative because you can keep up with technology and costs are rather low. Alternate Strategies
5. Fees: It’s based on a fixed fee, which is usually reasonable. Advantages: control costs, technology changes, reliable Disadvantages: Affect day-to-day operations, a lot of paperwork (insurance, etc), company might have trouble using system if it’s different than their training, if not secure, might not want this. Outsourcing
6. Also called global, this is just outsourcing extended to other countries to handle. The advantages, disadvantages, and fees are all rather similar, and large companies even start setting up buildings in different countries to accommodate this. Offshore Outsourcing
7. This alternate involves making, building, and developing the system yourselves and could then sell it as a software package. This can be more cost-effective but also a lot more time consuming. The fees include lower costs than other alternatives because the fees are spread out and you built it yourself. It is also complete, so you can implement it immediately. Other perks include reliability and perforcemance. Make or Buy Alternate
8. Lastly, you can receive updated from the vendor for your product. Disadvantages can include not knowing the software yourself, so if you run into a problem you have to contact the vendor or help and cannot fix the problem yourself. Another could be, if its online-versed, that the companies servers go down, thus your business crumbles until it is back up. Make or Buy Alternate
9. The selection team chose to build the system themselves. This way, they will know the system inside and out (hopefully) and do not have to rely on outside parties for functionality. This may take a bit longer though, since they’d need a prototype of some sort to test and develop with, but it seems the most viable option. In-house Developement
10. Management and the team have agreed the next step is building the prototype to what we would like the system to do and heavily test it to make sure everything will work properly. After we have perfected this, we should then work on designing the system at last so it is no longer a prototype. Any questions for management can be answered in due time. Thank you. Management
