Project Deliverable 1: Project Plan Inception



Project Deliverable 1: Project Plan InceptionJohn ClevengerStrayer UniversityUndergrad Info Tech CapstoneCIS 498Reddy UrimindiOctober 17, 2014Project Deliverable 1: Project Plan InceptionThis firm is presently ran by 10 people working to provide merchandize for sale and the company has planned to go online with an E-commerce store for which they are in a process of taking funding from a Venture capitalist. The investor is giving money to set up the company including the funds for technology infrastructure. The company has plans to hire 20 more people in next few years to grow the business. This case discusses the plan for incorporation of IT infrastructure and related requirements for setting up of an E-commerce business.The business is multifaceted, selling a variety of different types of specialized parts, mainly airlines, in collaboration with manufacturers such that the deliveries as well as returns are managed within the company while taking profits for sales rendered. This would involve getting online orders based on the availability imposed by a specific partners acting as supply manufacturers revealed in the website and once orders are received with payments, the company would arrange for the delivery by taking goods from manufacturing, packing and labelling them before delivery to the customer.A three tier IT infrastructure would be used for establishing the architecture for E-commerce. Which would have a front end used by customers or portal users, middleware for connection and back-end resources which would include database and applications used by the company employees. Middleware would be used for connecting front-end resources with back-end resource. This would require software for automating processes such as:Ordering systemInventory management systemDistribution management systemInformation appliancesCommunication servers (Rajput, 2009, p. 231-279)To manage all these operations, a database would be created using SQL and this database will be stored in the server. This database server will contain details of merchandize, suppliers as well as customers making purchases online. This database would be integrated with the web portal using object oriented web programming languages such as PHP (Pastor, Abrahao, & Fons, 2001).Currently the system as only 2-3 machines that are used by its employees managing accounts, orders and monitoring operations. For the most part, the remaining workload is executed manually. A person is deployed to take orders over calls and then he updates the register which goes to personnel managing merchandise and deliveries. Rates are negotiated with suppliers from time to time and the fast moving items are stocked in a small warehouse owned by the company to fulfill orders in an expedient manner. After the order is received, the items are either taken from warehouse or ordered straight from the manufacturer based on availability and then they are packaged and sent to customers.In order to maintain security, web firewalls and intercompany protocols would be used on the website and there would be licensed antivirus software assigned to protect each of the personal computers used by the company. Moreover, a server would have an enterprise edition of the antivirus software and a strong firewall for the whole system.The company would use one server which would be connected to 10 personal computers to be used by the employees of the company. All other infrastructure required for setting up the E-Commerce store would be rendered through cloud services, reducing the need for additional hardware by introducing only software needs.The ecommerce website design would require investment for the domain names and web space. Moreover, the company would be deploying an expert web developer to build this website. A person would be hired internally to manage the website as a webmaster with tasks that include periodical updates. The website will have different sub-systems that would be handling the entire operation from merchandizing to deliveries. Following methods or applications would be used for managing the website:SEO will be deployed to get good ranking on search engines to gain visibility online.Social Media Marketing would be done on major social media platforms like Facebook where advertising campaigns would be run to make consumers aware about the website.An ordering system would be put in place on the e-commerce store along with an integration with the payment gateway so that people can order and make payments online.This system would have an email response system through which the details of new order would directly go to the manufacturer over mail so that manufacturer can prepare for the production and deliveries.The website would include searching capability for users to search items based on filters attached ("BPlans," 2014).ReferencesE-commerce Start-up Business Plan. (2014). Retrieved from , O., Abrahao, S., & Fons, J. (2001). Building E-Commerce Applications from Object-Oriented Conceptual Models. 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