Introduction
Framers Company is in the process of launching a new product. One of the objectives is to provide customers with low prices within a limited time. The company also aims at producing a product that is unique in the market and one that will fulfill the needs of the customers.
Brief History
The Framers IT Company is launching a new product known as DGM/WEBQ so that solutions to IT problems and software can be solved. The software has been written using Web Matrix and it runs on the ASP.NET platform. The product consists of various components. One of the components is software code that converts a questionnaire into a website.
A second component is an ASP.NET software running file and a database connected to the software code. The product serves as a micro questionnaire that creates software to gather data for surveys. The database connected helps the user to save any information given on the website by the respondent. However, the system can automatically save.
Importance
This product is of great importance. The software helps people in creating micro questionnaires. Secondly, the user can validate and evaluate the answers given and show simple statistics of the respondent’s view. It can create a website that functions fully, starting from a questionnaire to creating a database that stores the user’s details. It is also important since it develops codes that show statistics. The statistics evaluate and validate the user’s response as compared to a user having the will to create a micro questionnaire.
Methodologies
The company has used several methodologies in marketing its product. The first step is that a growth plan has been established by conducting market research. This research has given the designers a platform for what people want. Secondly, the company has researched the public’s ideas and what they expect.
One of the ideas is targeting the existing technology to merge with their product. Issuing trial version details to people has helped in publicizing the product. Social sites and websites such as tweeter and Facebook have been useful too. A software development methodology is also crucial for the product.
The process of developing the product has been done with the customer’s needs being incorporated in the process. Development of the design has been done systematically from the conception of the idea until the final system has been delivered. To get to the final product, heavy data processing has been incorporated by the designers.
Advantages
The product has been designed to benefit all its users. One of the advantages is that Webmatrix helps in building websites. According to Ramez and Shamkant (15), this controls redundancy. In software development, utilizing file processing, every user group maintains its files for handling its data processing application. This helps in the software restricting unauthorized access. When multiple users share a large website, likely, most users will not be authorized to access all information on that website.
There is the provision of security and an authorization system specifying account restrictions. This has an advantage in that it provides backup and recovery. Facilities for recovering data from hardware or software failures are available in the design. The recovery system could ensure that the transaction is resumed from the point at which it was interrupted so that its full effect is recorded in the database.
Disadvantages
The product is still new in the market. Therefore, not many customers are familiar with the product, making it difficult for customers to trust it. It is not yet popular with the public. This is the only company that has this product; it might not be the best and might not be of quality since there is no competition. DGM/WEBQ takes time to be designed and installed. In case one of the programs crashes, the whole system also goes down.
Ramez and Shamkant (17) state that the software could be made up of complex components. This could pose a problem for students or people without professional knowledge. This system could develop additional implications while using the database. This is due to lack of flexibility, nonavailability of up-to-date information, and limited application of development time.
The system could also have a disadvantage of the high initial investment in hardware, software, and training. There could be security problems, recovery, and integrity functions. All these could be costs generated by the project and system.
Conclusion
The Framers Company having a strong determination to provide solutions to all IT and software problems has designed a web project. Coming up with DGM/WEBQ is one way of solving this problem. Working with the five stakeholders; Irslan, Liban, Hassan, Sima, and Amit has helped achieve success with the product.
All of them worked hard as a team to design and develop the product. Manufacturing the product was relatively expensive and time-consuming. It is therefore important for the technicians in IT to be aggressive in coming up with new products. Technology has been quickly adopted by people especially in corporate, businesses, professionals, and students.
In developing this system, special attention and time have been given to understand what the users want so that the stakeholders can provide customers with what suits them best and what can solve their problems easily.
Work Cited
Ramez, E and Shamkant B.N: Fundamentals of Database Systems.4th ed. USA: Pearson Education, 2004. Print.