MBI 630 Fall 2010 Candidate Systems Matrix (Sample) Characteristics Brief Description Candidate 1 Candidate 2 Do nothing: continue current business Purchase a PC and a DBMS that can be processes used to maintain an inventory database Portion of System Computerized: Brief N/A Inventory record storing and description of the portion of system processing processes computerized by the Technology N/A PC - Servers & workstations - Output device - Input device - Storage devices - Software tools needed N/A N/A N/A N/A - Application software N/A Interfaces N/A Processes Same as current processes - Method of data processing Geography (Network) N/A N/A 10/2/2010 Candidate 3 Candidate 2 plus acquire internet service and develop a web site. Candidate 2 plus Order/customer record storing and processing, and marketing PC w/ high-speed Internet connection ISP contract Same as candidate 2 Same as candidate 2 Same as candidate 2 MS Access Visual Studio 2010 (for ASP.Net) Designed in MS Access Web Browser (package) ASP.Net plus MS Access PC monitor Same as candidate 2 (Access Interfaces) Plus Web pages Inventory maintenance process will be Customer order processing, inventory changed maintenance processes will be changed Laser printer Keyboard and mouse PC hard disk (at least 200 GB) MS Access Batch N/A On-line/real time N/A ©Toru Sakaguchi