es. We will also participate in print ads of leading trade association magazines. 5. Design and Development PlansThe design of the system will have to include several factors. From the client’s point of view they will want security, responsiveness, cost and availability. Our needs will include maintainability, disaster recovery, and cost.5.1 Development Status and TasksCurrent development status is in the planning stage. From this point on we need to address the following issues: network connectivity, server purchase, build and install, software install, security, and user testing.Network connectivity depends on whether we decide to host our servers in our own facility or contract out with a hosting company to handle it. If we do it in-house we will need to budget for power, air conditioning, security, and connectivity. Hosting with another company will reduce our setup times but will lower our “sense of ownership”. Purchasing the servers is actually the end-state of a process that will include requirement writing, application availability per platform, initial cost, setup cost, and maintenance costs, and performance over several different usability models. We need to have a good sense of how hard and in what way the servers will be used before we can make a final purchase decision.There are only a limited number of software packages that will do what we need, so it should be fairly quick and easy to get representatives in to give us demonstrations of their products and make a final selection.Security will be a major selling point for our customers. They will want to be able to see their data without too many hassles while at the same time not allow others access to it. We will need to plan for security that keeps unwanted internet hackers off our system as well as keep clients who are allowed on the system to see only the data that they are supposed to have access to.5.2 Difficulties and RisksThe most difficult part o...
