SIT103 real-world project Assessment On Data and Information Management - Task 2

Part-1 Of Summative Assessment Task-2

You are required to select a user centric and data intensive web application (Website) and prepare a proposal for your project based on the selected website.
An example proposal: In your summative assessment task-1(Tutoring-1, page-4 to 6), Task-4 description: section-1 to section-2 provides you an example of a proposal.

1. Write the website address and provide a snapshot of the website. [2 Marks]
2. Write a brief description about the company. This should include its mission, services that are offered by the company and organizational structure of the company. [8 Marks]
3. List your selected service and related users. You should consider at least two types of users for your selected service. One user group should be from consumer of the service who receive the service (e.g. customer, patient, student) and another user group should be from service facilitators/providers: (e.g. Manager, executive officer, company staff, professor, sales person, doctor, volunteer, vendor). [5 Marks]
4. Operational description of the selected service form your selected website. Provide a detailed operational description of your selected service. This should include the description of business procedure (steps) required to provide, manage and use the service. This also should include data requirements of the service from the users and information requirements of the users from the service. Operational description should relate the data sources and reports to the description of business procedure.
   Please see component-3 for more details about users in the above. Please see component-7 in the following list for data sources and reports. Operational description will help you to define entities, attributes, relationships, connectivities, cardinalities, and constraints which are required for your conceptual design of this Tutoring. Therefore, please read the requirements of conceptual design (ER diagram) in Part-2 of summative assessment task-2 in this document (page 6) when writing the operational description. [25 Marks]
5. Definition of the problem (Problem description)
   When defining the problem, you can assume that the selected business service is currently not automated (a manual business process) or semi-automated (some steps are manually operated). Then provide “a definition of the problem” for your proposal. In this case, you are considering a situation that the selected business service is currently being operated fully/partly manual. Or, you can identify existing problems of your selected service in the website. Then provide a “definition of the problem” for your proposal accordingly. In the later case, you are considering an improved version of the service for your proposal that should overcome the existing problems. [10 marks]
6. Write the database system specification which should include (objectives, scope and boundaries). Include a context diagram to show your scope and boundaries. Describe the related services (external components), the data flows and users of the context diagram. Mention any assumption to define objective, scope and boundaries. [15 Marks]
7. Data Analysis and users’ requirements: You need to identify data sources, reports and related users. [10 Marks] The data sources: where is the data to be found and related users for your service? You should consider at least four data sources for your service.