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Topic 1.1 - Systems in Organizations

The document discusses topics related to computer systems and software installation. It covers planning a new system installation, managing organizational issues during installation, and different methods of installation including parallel running and phased conversion. User focus and documentation, various types of testing during implementation, and software deployment methods like manual downloads and automatic updates are also outlined. The objectives are to discuss planning installations, user needs, system backups, and deploying software updates.

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Topic 1.1 - Systems in Organizations

The document discusses topics related to computer systems and software installation. It covers planning a new system installation, managing organizational issues during installation, and different methods of installation including parallel running and phased conversion. User focus and documentation, various types of testing during implementation, and software deployment methods like manual downloads and automatic updates are also outlined. The objectives are to discuss planning installations, user needs, system backups, and deploying software updates.

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IB Computer Science

Topic1 : System fundamentals


1.1 : SYSTEMS IN ORGANIZATlONS
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What is a computer system?
life cycle
System Development life cycle (SDLS)
Lesson
01 Discuss objectives
Planning and system installation

02 Discuss
User focus

Discuss
03 System backup

04 Discuss
Software deployment
Planning a new system

Manage? Problems/Issues ? Install?

New system plan?


Why?

Implement? Feasibility study?


What reasons would you need to justify a new system?

• New advances in hardware  Increased speed


• New advances in software
• More efficiency
• Better usability
• Increase productivity or quality of the output
• minimize costs
Organizational issues related to the
installation of new systems
Organizational issues related to the
installation of new systems

- Training employees
- Changing the physical location of a server
- Firing employees
- ..etc
Example 1.1 – Question
A bookstore uses door—to—door salespersons to collect various orders from
various customers.
The orders are taken to the company’s offices and are input by a secretary.
The bookstore has decided to change this department and will
.ask the salespersons to input the orders at home, using their personal
computers.
Discuss the various effects of these changes.

- Secretary? Salespersons? Staff working from home?


- Physical space?
- Utility bills?
- New computers HW and SW?
. R&R
Recap & Review
When you change a system,
What factors would you need to manage?
Hint: Think of everybody and everything that would relate to the change

• Cost
• Design
• Implementation
• Installation
• Training for system administrators and users
.
R&R
Recap & Review
Legacy system : refers to an old technology, hardware, computer system, or
application program.

Business mergers : combining of two or more business entities. The main reason
companies merge is to reduce costs.

Software incompatibility: is a situation where different software entities or systems


cannot operate satisfactorily, cooperatively or independently, on the same computer,
or on different computers linked by a local or wide area computer network.
+

=
. R&R
Recap & Review
Lesson
OBJECTIVES :
1. Define SaaS (Software-as-a-Service).
2. Define on-premise software.
3. Relate and analyze the difference between (Software-as-a-Service) and on-
premise software solutions.
Hosting
systems
Client Remotely
hardware
Famous Cloud service providers
R&R
Recap & Review

Cloud Computing Explained - YouTube


R&R
Recap & Review
R&R
Recap & Review
R&R
Recap & Review
Cloud-based software
[ open discussion ]

“ Girls group ” “ Boys group”


Should your company move your data and
infrastructure to the cloud or keep it
on-premise?
Definition

The installation of a new system is:


A situation that most enterprises, organizations, and individuals will face one or
more times.
During this process, the old system will be retired, and the new system will take
its place.
. R&R
Recap & Review
Methods of Installation/Conversion

01 02
Parallel running Pilot running
Limited risk Low risk

03 04
Direct changeover Phased conversion
Very risky Takes longer time
Definition

Data migration refers to : the transfer of data between


different formats, storage types and computer systems.
. R&R
Recap & Review
1.1.7 Various types of testing

Where and when should testing be done?


EVERYWHERE
• Every stage of implementation
1.1.7 Various types of testing

Functional testing
• Data testing
• Alpha testing
• Beta testing
• Dry-run testing
• Integration testing
• User acceptance testing
1.1.7 Various types of testing

• Debugging is a systematic process of finding and correcting a computer


program's number of bugs (errors).
TOPIC 1
01 Planning and system roadmap
installation

02 User focus

03 System backup

04 Software deployment
Starter task

[ BRAINSTORMI
NG ]
LESSON
User
01 focus ROADMAP

01 Describe the importance of user


documentation.

02 Evaluate different methods of


providing user documentation.

03 Evaluate different methods of


delivering user training.
Let us measure our understanding!
Let us measure our understanding!
( Help files )

G1 G2 G3
Pros & Cons Pros & Cons Pros & Cons
. R&R
Recap & Review
TOPIC 1
01 Planning and system roadmap
installation

02 User
focus

03 System backup

04 Software deployment
LESSON
System
01 backup ROADMAP

01 Identify a range of causes of data loss.

02 Outline the consequences of data loss


in a specified situation.

03 Describe a range of methods


that can be used to prevent
data loss.
. R&R
Recap & Review
Consequences of data loss

Scenario 1: Your medical record was lost at the hospital

Scenario 2: Your transcript was lost by your college

Scenario 3: Your dinner reservation was lost


Lesson
01 Discuss objectives
Planning and system
installation

02 Discuss
User
focus

Discuss
03
System backup

04 Discuss
Software deployment
What are different methods of releasing updates and patches?

• Manual Download
• At any time (critical)
• Periodic (weekly, quarterly, etc.)
• Automatic updates
Lesson
01 Discuss objectives
Planning and system
installation

02 Discuss
User
focus

Discuss
03
System backup

04 Discuss
Software
deployment

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