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Chapter 9 Selecting The Best Alternative Design Strategy
Chapter 9 Selecting The Best Alternative Design Strategy
Low-end alternative
•Most conservative in terms of the effort, cost and technology
involved in developing a new system.
•It will provide all desired features using advanced technologies that
allow the system to expand to meet future requirements.
2 major consideration:
•Determining the minimum requirements for the new system.
•Determining the constraints on system development.
Features are
determined
from
requirements.
Constraints
pertain to
limitations on
development
efforts.
Issues to consider in generating alternatives.
•The issue about alternative design strategies shows the importance of
systems features.
Outsourcing
•The practice of turning over responsibility of some or all of an
organization’s information systems applications and operations to an
outside firm.
•IT services firm help companies develop, host and run application for
customers, or they provide other services.
•Software company consult with system users after the initial software
design has completed and an early version of the system has been built.
•If company needs an information system but does not have the
expertise or personnel to develop the system in-house, and a suitable
off the shelf system is not available, the company will likely consult
custom software company.
•It’s free not just the final product but also the source code.
•Eg: Linux
In-house Development
•Often, there are a variety of sources that are used, with in-house staff
playing a role as well as consultants or ERP vendors
Choosing of-the-shelf software