Transcript Final Progress Presentation

Accounting & Billing System
for the WEB Centre
GDP 19
Donna Crawford
David Newman
Chris O’Neill
Amit Shah
(dc899)
(drn101)
(ckjon101)
(ams401)
Supervisor
Tim Chown
2nd Supervisor
Mike Poppleton
Customer
Simon Farrenden, ECS
Final Presentation
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Project aims
Prior progress
Advanced features
Final project state
Conclusions
Questions??
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Project Aims I
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Produce a system:
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Accessible by Clients and Staff remotely
With a simple and intuitive user interface
Secure against unauthorised access
With different levels of access
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Project Aims II
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System must provide:
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Staff & Client accounts
Services management
Staff timesheet submission
Client invoice generation
IP address management
DNS configuration
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Prior Progress
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Manage Staff & Client Accounts
Log of Database modifications
Map of Systems staff to Clients
Manage Services
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Offered by WEB Centre
Purchased by the Client
Basic Functionality required for Data Collection
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Advanced features could not be implemented without
this
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Advanced Features I
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Timesheet
The system keeps
an atomic record
of all the hours
staff members
have worked, and
for which clients
and services.
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Advanced Features II
Timesheets are used to
automatically calculate
consultancy pay for
client invoices.
All hours submitted
can be previewed in a
calendar style format.
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Advanced Features III
The consultancy hours
declared by staff require
confirmation by an
administrator, to enforce
honour.
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Advanced Features IV
Timesheet search facility
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Advanced Features V
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Dynamic invoice
generation
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One-button
No manual
searches
No manual
calculations
Minimal errors
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Advanced Features VI
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Invoice management
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Quick access to past invoices
Record payments and searching facilities
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Advanced Features VII
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HTML/PDF
invoices
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Customer
choice of view
More readable
output
Copies can be
saved or printed
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Advanced Features VIII
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IP Address Tracking
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Authoritative Nameserver Verification
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Quickly lists available addresses
Detailed information available on address usage
Reduces workload of support and administrative staff
Ensures data integrity between WEB Centre and
domain registries
Usage Report
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Provides detailed report of overall address usage
Highly beneficial to administrative staff
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Final Project State
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Project Development Continues
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Project is constantly evolving as specification
changes
Scope of this project extends beyond the time
allowed by the GDP
Progress made during the GDP has prompted WEB
Centre to prepare for a test system parallel to the live
system.
Hopes exist that the team will be hired by WEB
Centre as software consultants for maintenance and
possible training purposes
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Conclusions
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Stressful experience
Promising product
delivered within tight
time plan
Thank you to
supervisors and
customers
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“The product appears
to meet most of the
discussed
requirements, and our
initial impression is
quite positive. With the
vendor having shown
such enthusiasm in
determining our needs
to date, we are
confident that the final
product will be most
satisfactory.”
– WEB Centre
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Questions ??
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“The product appears
to meet most of the
discussed
requirements, and our
initial impression is
quite positive. With the
vendor having shown
such enthusiasm in
determining our needs
to date, we are
confident that the final
product will be most
satisfactory.”
– WEB Centre
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