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Informs SISJ2K Presentation
Informs Proprietary Material
Informs Clients
SISJ2K
BuildingThe Future
MOSIS 2000 ConferenceMOSIS 2000 ConferenceSISSISJ2KJ2K - A Java-based - A Java-based
Student Information SystemStudent Information System
Fayetteville, AR
July 17, 2000
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Agenda
• Company Background
• Management Considerations
• SISJ2K Software Considerations
• System Architecture
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SISJ2K
BuildingThe Future
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Company Background
• Company History
• SIS Acquisition
• Long-term Goals
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Company Background and SIS
• Company History– Montgomery, AL technology consulting firm– Incorporated in 1979– Growing company in an expanding marketplace– Offerings:
• Government Purchasing System• Professional Consulting Services• Web Hosting Services• Student Information System
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Company Background and SIS
• SIS Acquisition– Acquired in June 1997 from American
Management Systems, Inc. (AMS)– Given our lower overhead structure, all parties
felt Informs was better positioned to provide maintenance support for the product.
– Informs is in the process of re-engineering the Cobol based SIS into an object-oriented, Java-based software package
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Management Considerations
• Java Assessment
• IBM Partnership
• Investment Costs
• Migration Benefits For Existing Clients
• Cost Benefit Analysis For Existing Clients
• The Competition
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Java Assessment
• Platform Independent – Clients choose: DB2, Oracle, etc.– Mainframe, Unix, Windows NT, etc.
• Architecture Independent– Fat/thin client; Single tier/multi-tier
• Object-Oriented– Easily extendible to customize code without
changing the baseline software
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Java Assessment
• One language– User interface (GUI or web-based)– Application logic– Database access
• More ergonomic– Similar to other PC-based packages our clients
are familiar with
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IBM Partnership
• Technical support:– During our training and development phase
• Evaluation support– Architectural assessment (Summer 2000)– IBM’s testing lab facilities in Rockville, MD to:
• performance test the software• evaluate our methodology
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Investment Costs
• Informs Java Development Costs
– FY 1998-1999: $ 936,000
– FY 1999-2000: $ 717,000
– FY2000-2001: $ 805,500
Investment To Date: $ 2,458,500
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Migration Benefits For Existing Clients
• Less Cost and Lower Risk
• Shorter Implementation Cycle
– Training minimized due to client-participation in system development
• Compare SISJ2K against level of effort required to purchase new software
– Functionality requirements
– Conversion requirements
– Customization requirements
– Functional training requirements
– Technical training requirements
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Cost/Risk Analysis
Cost Risk
Competition SIS-J2K Informs Clients
SISJ2K
BuildingThe Future
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• SCT– Single Vendor Solution– Proprietary Software Implementation Tools– Combined client-base of SCT and IA
• PeopleSoft– Single Vendor Solution– Proprietary Software Tools-People Tools– Over 300 SIS clients
The Competition
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• Informs– Best of Breed Software– Off the shelf software development tools– Limited number of select, high-quality clients– Personalize Maintenance/Consulting Services– Continuously maintain the the software at:
• best cost• lowest risk
The Competition
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SISJ2K-Software Considerations
• Development Goals
• Development Environment
• Informs Framework Features
• Client Evaluation Process
• Projected Delivery Plan
• Implementation Strategy
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Development Goals
• Transition of the software - AMS to Informs
• Incorporate:
– Best of the Cobol baseline functionality
– Clients’ custom changes where feasible
• Involve clients in the development of the new system
• Continuously improve the software over time
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Development Environment
• Design Tools– Rational Rose product line
• Define the object model
– Visual Age for Java• Develop views/screens
– ERwin• Relational database tool to define logical database• Generates database schemas and definitions for
physical database
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Development Environment
• Development Tools
– Rose Bridge
• Import the object model into Component Broker (IBM-WebSphere Enterprise Software)
– Component Broker-Object Builder
• Generate and implement business objects
• Develop interface code for clients and servlets
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Development Environment
• Development Tools
– Visual Age for Java
• Develop and test controllers, complete views, and unit test the application
• Testing Tools
– Rational Team Test
• System test the application
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Informs Framework Features
• User Interface
– Web-enabled (Internet Users)
– GUI Features (Administrative Users)
• Menu Bar, Button Bar, Hot-Keys
• Navigation Tree
• Tabbed Views
• Drop-down boxes (reference data)
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Informs Framework Features
• Security Enhancements
– Unlimited number of security groups
– Masked/protected fields feature to eliminate “screen cloning”
– Edit security reference code data
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Informs Framework Features
• Application Messages
– Two message fields:
• 30 character short description
• 250 character detailed description
– Three types of messages:
• Error………..stops processing
• Warning……does not stop processing
• Information...describes other updates performed
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Informs Framework Features
• Table/Record Views
– Table View
• Display multiple records from a single screen
– Detail View
• Display all data elements associated with a single record