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Business Information Systems Research Project in Information Systems (IS4401) 2008 / 2009 This week • Have draft proposal ready • Allocation of supervisors to students • Establish schedule for weekly project group meetings • Initial feedback from supervisors What are we aiming at? “Underlying the expectation of performance increases is the belief that information can be captured and disseminated throughout the organisation more quickly to help individuals do their jobs better by making better decisions” Arnold, V. (2006), Behavioural research opportunities: Understanding the impact of enterprise systems, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, draft accepted Feb 2006 FYP 2007 segmentation 2007 FYP Projects Project category Total Marketing & Sales 34 Business process 30 Customer data Mgt 21 Performance reporting 12 Supply Chain mgt 6 Grand Total 103 FYP 2008 segmentation 2008 FYP projects Sector Services Hospitality Club / Association Education Retail Public sector Financial services Manufacturing Professional services Technology Media Travel Grand Total Total 22 19 17 15 12 7 4 4 4 4 2 1 111 Coaching sessions • Thursday 2nd Ocotober (Don O’Leary, Google) – Importance of customer requirements – System specification – Innovation • Thursday 9th October – Picking a database – Development environments • Thursday 16th October – Web-site hosting and implementation – Other technologies Proposal guideline • Objective : aim of the project • Project client, name of company if relevant • Requirements : describe problem domain / business need • Scope of project proposed : what it does / doesn’t cover • Benefits for users : speed, efficiency, control, quality, ... • Technical specification: – – – • Data requirements (eg. Customers, products, ...) Interface requirements (does system need to talk to other systems) Technologies used (hardware, software) Proposed timeframe FYP proposal guideline • Scope of project proposed : eg. inventory control for car repairs business • Objective : eg. automate sales order processing and purchase orders so that spare parts inventory is always up to date • Project client or sponsor (eg. Dunmanway Motors Ltd.) • Requirements : eg. ability to record and transmit sales and purchase orders accurately and with minimal errors, real-time view of inventory levels • Benefits for users : eg. single source of data entry, better control of spare parts in stock, reports (for sales, purchasing and inventory) • Technical specification: – – – • Data requirements (eg. customers, products, ...) Interface requirements (does system need to talk to other systems) Technologies used (eg. ASP.net for development, MySQL for database) Proposed timeframe (Analysis & Design, Development, Test, Implementation) Frequently asked questions • • • • • • Are there more marks for an innovative project? How do I get the best marks? Can the project be for a placement company? Does project have to be for a real-life company? Can I use non-standard technologies? Can the project be done as part of a larger system? When doing a project for a company • • • • • Make sure the requirements are clear Set-up a reliable communication channel Client feedback on system is vital Ensure that the final handover is clean You must be able to demo the system here! Software Available 2007/2008 Development tools Front-end Tools Productivity Tools Applications Java Control Plug-in 1.4.2 FrontPage 2002 MS Project 2003 MS Dynamics GP 9.0 Java Developers Kit 1.5.0 MS Image Composer 1.5 Minitab 14 (statistics) Microsoft SQL 2000 client Dreamweaver 3.0 NetMeeting 3.01 Oracle 10g client Paint Shop Pro 6 Visio 2003 Telnet QVT 4.0 (Unix emulator) Internet Explorer 7.0 Windows XP SP2 ConTEXT Java editor MS Web Publishing Acrobat Reader 7.0.7 jGrasp 1.8.3 Java editor Mozilla Firefox 1.7 Microsoft Office 2003 Java Developers Kit 1.4.2 Winzip 8.1 Sun Java Wireless Toolkit 2.2 MiKTex (desktop publishing) J2 SE 1.5.0 Knoppix (Linux environment) J2 EE SDK 1.4 DataStream 4.0 Net Beans IDE 5.0 MS Visio 2003 Visual Developer Suite 6.0 LaTEX Visual Studio .NET 2005 TestOut client Technologies : non-standard s/w • Requirement should first be cleared with supervisor (use standard s/w or laptop) • Software must be licensed: written approval from technical staff first! • Any machine “compromise” is resolved by cloning! • Machines in Lab 1.12 are shared, therefore installing specific software doesn’t make it your machine