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What are the 10 factors that affect choosing an IT system? |
Productivity User Experience Compatibility Connectivity Security Specification Efficiency Cost User Needs Implementation |
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What is user experience? |
Experience a user is looking for depending on their skill level and disability or ability |
Experience Skill level |
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What are the 4 sub categories of user experience? |
Accessibility Availability Performance Ease of use |
A.A.P.E |
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What is accessibility? |
How available a device is for disabled user and whether the system provides the necessary adaptive technology |
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What is ease of use? |
How simple and intuitive the device is to perform tasks on |
Intuitive |
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What is performance? |
How powerful the device is and it's components |
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What is availability? |
How often the device can be used
IT system hosting a website will need to be 24/7 |
Example Often |
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What is connectivity |
How device can connect to a network such as a LAN or to a WAN such as the internet
Need internet on the go device used to be a smartphone due to mobile broadband |
Example Network Connect |
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What is security? |
How safe a device is from security threats such as hackers and viruses |
Device Safety |
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What is cost? |
Business must balance the capabilities of the devices of the IT system against their needs and the cost
Cost of running a device needs considering of its electricity consumption |
Example Balance capabilities with cost |
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What are user needs |
The tasks that user wants to perform using the IT system User must consider what they need the compatibility with software and peripherals |
Example |
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What is efficiency? |
How well tests can be completed with minimum resource wastage |
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What needs to be considered with efficiency? |
Time and staff resources can the system perform the task quicker? Does the system need fewer people to operate it? Does the technology require less power to run? |
3 examples |
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What is specification? |
List of components required of a computer system in order to allow users to run the software
IT system must meet minimum software requirements |
Components Requirements |
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What is compatibility? |
This is about whether your IT system can communicate with the other devices and peripherals you're using with it
New IT systems with HDMI ports exclusively will not connect to a lot of old monitors |
Example Communication |
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What is productivity? |
How quickly tasks can be completed on an IT system
Slow load times of freezing affect productivity so needs to be balanced against cost of upgrade |
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What is implementation? |
Time taken to put a new system into effect including delivery time, connection, running software installation and migration of data from old to new system |
Time Taken |
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What are 4 subcategories of implementation? |
Timescales Testing Migration Training |
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What are timescales? |
Time taken for the new system to be delivered or for the new system to be implemented |
Delivery Implementation |
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What is testing? |
Ensuring the the new system works correctly and software is compatible and stable |
Compatible |
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What is migration? |
Transferring data software and files from the old system to the new one depending on device can be automated or complicated |
Low bandwidth may limit migration to cloud as data transfer will be slow (especially is large data transfer) Data Transfer |
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What is training? |
For a new IT system to be implemented in a business staff may need additional training which will result in more downtime |
Downtime |
