Engineering Homework Help

Competency

In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competency:

• Implement a web service to enable an organizational need

Scenario

You are a business systems analyst at Web Explore, Inc. The company is planning to launch a new registration form on its website. Web Explore, Inc. now has customers in over 20 countries and data breaches are becoming more of a risk. Web Explore, Inc. has an organizational need to increase security and integrity of all data that is obtained through the form, such as customers’ names, email addresses, mailing addresses, and zip codes.

The new web service will meet these needs by:

• Allowing only customer sign-ups that have the @gmail.com domain
• Blocking non-@gmail.com domains and notifying the user
• Not duplicating customer email domains
• Using IP addresses to increase security
• Using recaptcha to reduce spam sign-ups

Since the registration form is a new web service that Web Explore, Inc. has never used before, its IT department has been asked by leadership to create a web service implementation plan. This plan will ensure that organizational needs are being met, and will inform leadership on how the task of creating a web service will be implemented effectively.

As a business systems analyst within the IT department, you have been asked to present this implementation plan. Your plan will include all aspects of the planning process for this web service.

Directions

Prepare a Web Service Implementation Plan for the new web service. Your plan should include the purpose, organizational needs, user experience, system architecture, tools and processes, data collection, and storage.

• Explain the purpose of the web service that is being implemented. Consider why the organization is implementing this specific web service.
• Describe how the new web service will enable the organizational needs listed in the scenario. Consider the needs that will be met once the web service is deployed and users engage with it.
• Explain how the user experience influences the implementation process. Consider how the user experience affects the interface of the web service.
• Illustrate the architecture of the web service by creating a diagram. Be sure to illustrate how the system functions. In your diagram, you must describe the importance of the interoperability of services.

You must create a diagram that includes at a minimum:

• Server
• Call and response packages
• Client
• Web service
• Describe the tools and processes that the organization will use as it implements this web service. You must consider:
• Equipment, including the hardware and software needed to implement the web service
• Personnel involved in the implementation of the web service
• Timeline—how long an implementation process would take
• Technical training—time and resources associated with training employees
• Identify how the organization plans to collect and store its user data. You must identify:
• The data that needs to be collected
• The data that needs to be stored
• The database that should be used, with a rationale for selecting that database that includes cost and efficiency