Car Insurance System: Analysis

Monday 19th September 2005 Coursework

Identification

Problem:

Car Insurance

There is a company called BlackBurry’s, who supply car insurance. They have thousands of costumers all over the UK. Every year they have to send out a reconfirmation mail sent out to all of their clients. Each year they ask a different member of staff, to write the letter another to file all of the reconfirmation mails, which have been returned back to the company from their clients, and another to process all of them. They have a group of 20 members of staff, which work on creating the databases, which have to meet every day to work on this together. They have a secutary which has to sit by the phone all day, and has to call certain members of staff in the complex, phone back this client, as they are unable of any other forms of communication which, except for snail mail (post) which is too slow for urgent problems. They also would like another form of advertising and i.e a website, and would like another look for their company. They would like new stationary and a new logo representing the company.

They have asked me to implement an ITC and computer system for them to have a more efficient working environment. And to help them create a logo and website for them.

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They have asked me to implement an ITC and computer system for them to have a more efficient working environment. And to help them create a logo and website for them.

I will solve this problem by creating a LAN (local area network) throughout the complex, and a wireless LAN in some of the other parts of the complex, so partners will be able to take their laptop, anywhere in the building and they will be able to connect, print, share recourses, so they can share printer, and they will be able to edit a databases for all the clients in real time. I will be implementing a new set of computers (desktops) and/Laptops. Suitable specifications for a desktop for this business, taking in account that a large percentage of their systems will only be used for data and word processing:

For the desktops

512MB of RAM (random access memory) this will be appropriate for a whole Office package, including a email client, presentation, word processing, spreadsheet software, database software, a DTP (desktop publishing package/software), a graphics package to render high resolution graphics,

(Random Access Memory or RAM is a type of computer storage whose contents can be accessed in any order. This is in contrast to sequential memory devices such as magnetic tapes, discs drives (CD-ROM, CD-/+RW, DVD, in which the mechanical movement of the storage medium forces the computer to access data in a fixed order. It is usually implied that RAM can be both written to and read from, in contrast to Read-Only Memory or ROM. RAM is usually used for primary storage in computers to hold actively-used code used in programmes.)

A 40-60 GB (Giga Byte) Hard drive will be sufficient, as most of the software will be stored on a local Network server. (Network: A computer system attached to a LAN that runs a Network Operating System, NOS, allowing a community of workstations connected to the LAN to access resources available on the file server such as disk storage and printers. Also known as a Client/Server relationship.)

(Hard Drive: The hard drive is the main storage capacity of a computer. A set of circular, flat, platter-shaped pieces of metal, each with a special coating of magnetic particles that is capable of storing electronically created data. You can think of your hard drive as a filing cabinet within and for your computer.)

512 RAM will be sufficient, for high demanding applications,