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Scenario: 1) You are responsible for the design of a new order entry and sales analysis system for a national chain of auto part stores. 2) Each store has a PC that supports office functions. 3) The company also has regional managers who travel from store to store working with the local managers to promote sales. 4) There are four national offices for the regional managers, who each spend about 1 day a week in their office and 4 on the road. 5) Stores place orders to replenish stock daily, based on sales history and inventory levels. 6) The company uses the Internet to connect store PCs into the company’s main computer. 7) Each regional manager has a laptop computer to also connect with stores and the head office. Task: To recommend a technology architecture for supporting the business activities of the company. Should include the following: • Summary of the business and business requirements • Description of the major system’s components/document developments/tasks required during using the SDLC methodology • Identification of challenges and roadblocks that you would anticipate if implementing this project • Definition of how the systems’ analysts (you and your team) will interact with users, management, and other information systems professionals to develop this plan (i.e. questionnaires, interviews, etc.). • Summary of recommendation and justification as the best solution

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From the exercise's brief portrayal, this application shows up sufficiently extensive and complex, with a fitting measure of information offering, to warrant a customer/server circulated methodology. A consistent contention can be made for each of the six customer/server architectures depicted in the part. On the other hand, given that there gives off an impression of
being a genuinely capable PC in each of the stores, it may bode well to utilize a methodology that pushes a percentage of the capacities to these customer PCs. For instance, remote information administration, conveyed capacity, dispersed database, or appropriated preparing may bode well, contingent upon the kind of PCs and host PC utilized. On the off chance that the
preparing at the stores is basically arrange passage, every store will probably keep nearby request points of interest, with rundowns sent to the principle PC on an occasional premise. Access from the store to the principle PC can be as required (e.g., to reconnoiter the status of stock recharging requests). The handling prerequisites of the local deals chiefs are indistinct from the portrayal, yet presumably accentuate deals investigation. Conceivably what they need is a capacity to check
stock levels, current costs, and expected merchant conveyance dates and amounts, on an as required premise, and in addition take a gander at deals patterns for all the stores in a locale. Such needs are upheld by an appropriated capacity outline, which takes into account focal information administration and imparted obligation regarding information investigation. An option is a disseminated database plan, in which territorial directors gather information on their portable PC and intermittently associate with the primary PC.

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