42904 CLOUD COMPUTING AND SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE ASSIGNMENT 2

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CLOUD COMPUTING AND SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE

42904

ASSIGNMENT 2

Late Submission Policy:

You must hand and email the assignment on time. An extension may be granted for illness, misadventure,  or  other  extenuating  circumstances  beyond  your  control.  The  issue  of  an extension  should  be  raised  with  the  Subject  Coordinator  as  soon  as  possible  after  the circumstances occur. In general, extensions will be not be granted on or after the due date of the assignment.

Written  consent  in  the  form  of  email  should  be  obtained  from  the  Subject  Coordinator allowing  for  late  assignment  submission.  Please  note  that  such  permissions  for  late assignment submissions will only be considered due to prior unforeseen extraordinary and genuine circumstances beyond your control. Late assignments  submitted outside of these parameters will be deducted one mark per day late, more than seven days late assignments (without any special consideration) will receive zero marks.

Team/Group Registration:

This is a group assignment and it is expected that it will be done in groups of three students each. It is expected that you will be continuing with the same group as that of Assignment 1. If you have any issues with the working of your assignment group, please contact the subject coordinator as soon as possible.

Assignment Description:

Your  organization  is  considering  a  major  investment  in   Cloud   Computing  application development platform in areas where it may assist their business requirements. The Chief Information Officer (CIO) of your organization has come to know that you recently attained knowledge of Cloud Computing and the Force.com PaaS. You have been requested by the CIO to demonstrate the use of Force.com cloud computing platform through a small pilot project or prototype, project report; and present your findings to the CIO and CEO. You have been given the flexibility to research and select any enterprise application suitable for the cloud  prototype  (such  as  but  limited  to  HR  Management,  Contract  Management,  Order Management or Student Enrolment Management).

Assessment Item 1:  Software Application Development using Force.com platform (15% of the overall subject mark/grade):

Make use of Force.com PaaS to engineer a software prototype to address the organization- specific business problem that you have selected. Your prototype system should demonstrate the use of following key concepts:

(i)     Data Objects (Minimum three objects showing look up (association) and master- detail relationships)

(ii)    Data Validation Rules (Minimum three successfully implemented data validation rules)

(iii)   Object-level security and Tab-Level security (Implement minimum one implemented  object-level  security  and  one  tab-level  security  settings  using Custom Profiles)

(iv)   Organisation-wide default (Minimum one successfully implemented organisation-wide default access)

(v)    Email Notification (Minimum  two successful  implementations  of email notification automation process using workflow mechanisms)

(vi)   Task creation and assignment (Minimum one successful implementation of task creation and automation process using workflow mechanisms)

(vii)  Time-based workflow (Minimum one successful implementation of time-based workflow)

Submission requirements for Assessment Item 1:

PaaS application development confirming to the above criteria needs to be carried out using the Force.com platform

(a) Create a unique login credentials for your group in Force.com

(b) Mention your Force.com login credentials in the assignment report.

(c) Any changes made to your project in Force.com/Salesforce.com, after this time will render your project ineligible for assessment.

Assessment Item 2:  Written report

(10% of the overall subject mark/grade):

Your report should be written in the following format (adhering to the following sections)

(a) Preface Section: This section should address the following:

(i)  Title of the report

(ii) Student Names (along with UTS Student ID’s)

(iii) Abstract (about 100 words)

(b) Introduction Section: This section should address the following:

(i)  A  brief background  of the  organization that  is requesting Force.com PaaS implementation

(ii) What are the  specific use-cases for using the Force.com PaaS in the above organization?

(c) System Modelling Section: This section should address the following: 

a)  Present the Data Model for the PaaS Application

b)  Present the Custom User Profile/s with descriptions of each profile 

c)  Present the Workflow diagrams

d)  Prototype System Screens and Description

(d) Contribution of each group member: In this section the individual contribution of each group member should be outlined. Although this is a group assignment, it will be assessed individually. If all group members have contributed equally in completing this assignment, this should be stated.

(e) Conclusion and Future work Section: This section should address the following:

(i)   Conclude  the  report  with  your   experience(s)  with  PaaS-based   software development

(ii)  Future  further  implementation  of  this  PaaS  application,  and  other  areas within the organization where PaaS implementations could be done (along with rationale)

References being cited in the body of the report can be books, journals, conference articles or news articles). Your report should be written in Times New Roman Font (Size  12). Please format and structure your report legibly. Please follow “Harvard Referencing Style”. The referencing guidelines can be located athttp://www.bell.uts.edu.au/referencing/index.html

Assessment Process for Assignment 2:

The following assessment criteria will be used in grading process for this assignment.