Question

Question 1: Consider various aspects of cloud based solutions and investigate the strengths and weaknesses of cloud based solutions, taking into consideration the environment in which the solution will be deployed for the proposed system.

Question 2: Compare and contrast Unified Process (UP) and Scrum. Then recommend either Unified Process or Scrum you will use for the proposed system and briefly describe why.

Background Information:

Jack Greig and Daniel Cox have several years of experience of running an auto-parts business as a supplier in a major city of Australia. The current warehouse management system is not able to handle highly dynamic procedures that can help them move and store inventory at peak efficiency and lowest cost. Jack and Daniel have decided to develop a new Auto-Parts Warehouse Management System where its functionality can be applied throughout all core warehouse processes, transforming the warehouse into a competitive advantage. You are the business system analyst assigned to develop this system.

In your meeting with Jack and Daniel, they provided significant details regarding the basic operations of the system. They expect the system will perform the various functions such as receiving all types of orders, inventory control, order processing, pick up and process orders, order load management, outbound documentation, system alerts, packing orders, and crystal reports.

Please note, you must consider the number of wireless communication devices that configure with the proposed system and enables the warehouse management to run the distribution centre using real-time operations. These extensive system functions will improve warehouse operations by minimising costs and increasing productivity.

Note: Answers should be close to 4 pages.

Criteria:

A review of the strengths and weaknesses of cloud-based solutions, taking into consideration the environment in which the solution will be deployed for the proposed system.	Clearly identified strengths and weaknesses of cloud solutions. As well as demonstrate in-depth understanding of the environment that the solution would be used in.
Compare and contrast Unified Process (UP) and Scrum. Then recommend either Unified Process or Scrum you will use for the proposed system and briefly describe why.	Response clearly state the differences between Unified Process and Scrum methodologies with strong justification about which methodology is suitable for the proposed system.

Answer 1

Ans 1
ADVANTAGES
now a days most of the organizations are not confined with in

geographical boundaries.
in this era of globalization, organizations/companies are trying

to spread their business across the world.

organizations/companies are providing following types of

facilities.
a)customer can place order from any part of the world.
b)organization/company are ready to ship consignments to any

country.
c)because of globalization, organizations need to erect a system

which can record order from customer round the clock.
d)apart from this, organizations/companies are also required to

understand the local situations of the country where customers

reside.

if talk about the entire world, there are many festivals,events

(such as sports) in every month.
so most of the organizations have erected an online web based

system to run their business.
therefore there is a pressing need of world wide network of IT

resources including computer network,mobile network, servers and

so on.

it means data is supposed to be sent over internet.it is a good

thing, but data can be captured by some unauthorized persons, yes

it is time to consider cyber attack.

so there are so many aspects when making a business online.
such as
a)there is a requirement of servers to deal the client requests

coming from any part of world round the clock.
b)a strong logistics and supply chain management.
c)round the the clock customer care system.
e)modern security system to cope up with the security attack(cyber

attack)
f)maintenance of the above systems.

if a company/organization builds its own IT infrastructure to meet

out the above mentioned requirements,it is a very costly affair.

company should think about its core business.
so, instead of paying attention to IT infrastructure , company

should pay attention to its core business.
company should not forget the goal they started for.

the solution came in the form of cloud service provider.

Here Cloud technology comes into the picture.Organizations with

huge amount of data look for third party(cloud providing vendor)

to hand over the responsibility of organization's data to the

vendor . So cloud providing vendors provide their IT

infrastructure(computer servers/memory/storage and so on) to store

client's/organization's data using internet.

companies are supposed to pay for the resources as a rent for

these resources.
company pays for the resources only for the duration they used the

resources.
so all the issues, such as resource availability according to the

need of company/client, data availability, confidentiality is the

accountability of cloud vendor.

DISADVANTAGES

there are some implication such as
is it a better choice to hand over organization's data to cloud

vendors?
is it a good choice for organizations to be dependent on cloud

providing vendors?
What if a cloud providing vendor shuts down its business?

there are much more issued in this regard.

Consider a cloud providing vendor, this vendor is supposed to

provide data/services to the organizations
but how this vendor will make sure that all the services/data

provided by this vendor will be intact and on time.will this

vendor look for another cloud providing vendor?

Can an organization be relaxed completely about data/services

availability/integrity/confidentiality after providing its data to

cloud providing vendors.

Computing Capability:-

Most of the vendors are claiming that they are having infinite

computing power, and the vendor can meet out the increased demand

of the customers instantly,but it is very hard to believe that

because cloud providing vendors can not achieve infinite

computing power, if vendors have finite financial budget.

Communication Speed:-

if an organization(handed over its data to cloud providing vendor)

experiences low communication speed,this organization can lodge

the complaint to the vendor in this regard, and vendor may come up

with a reason
"SLOW INTERNET SPEED", then how the organization will come to know

the reality,means it(slow communication speed) is due to "SLOW

INTERNET SPEED" or it is due to vendor's poor infrastructure

(Servers/RAM/Secondary Storage).

Ans 2
Both the approaches are based on Agile methodology.
Both the approaches work in iterative manner.
apart from these there are few following differences.

In case of unified process(UP), the scope of project is predefined

before the start of project and scope is well documented in scope

document.

Scrum focuses on project Backlog and re-evaluates at the end of

each iteration.

in UP plan is based on end date

in Scrum , plan for the next iteration is prepared at the end of

current iteration.

One should go for UP because UP makes sure that project will be

completed on time.

Ans 3
There is a need to develop a website with following features.
1 User Registration :
users(supplier/customer) should be able to register themselves

online (across the world and round the clock).

2.order placement: customer should be able to place order online.
3.online payment system:there should be facility for online

payment for the customer.
4.software should generate invoice/receipt for the customers.
5. order tracking:
customers should be able to track their order status and

consignments.
6.Admin Module:
a)Admin of the web site should be able to update inventory.
b)minimum re-order level:software should alert about the minimum

stock before the stock becomes nil.

finally this web site should be converted into a mobile phone app.
so there should be two versions of the software .
a. web site
b. mobile app for this web site