This morning I met with my supervisor and discussed a better definition of cloud collaboration as the term used in the proposal was quite vague and could encompass a wealth of topics.
Our conclusion was to use a cloud tool. That is to develop a web based tool (for the use of cloud) and an app for the windows phone in order to transmit data to an online repository. This online repository will be used to store phone data such as; contacts, messages, pictures etc. For safe keeping and ease of access anywhere in the world.
There is still a lot of speculation whether this is feasible or not due to Windows Phone being a relatively new product and the existing API's currently available to allow such a service.
With a meeting booked on Monday 31st at Microsoft I am hoping to address these issues and find out if I can proceed with what I had in mind. In the mean time I am going to carry out background with what I can find on the internet to help in my search.
Friday 28 January 2011
Monday 24 January 2011
Project Proposal
• Why is this project honours worthy?
What makes the project that you are proposing worthy of a student studying for a Bachelors degree?
My project is based on technologies that are the latest step in IT evolution - combining cloud based collaboration with the smartphone. Both are set to create big changes and challenges within the industry.
The smartphone and cloud market are growing at a fast rate in the UK and across the world and with tough competition between rival companies makes this study an interesting and compelling worthy cause.
• How does this project relate to your degree title outcomes?
What makes this project relevant to your chosen degree? You need to show that the project is in-line with expectations as outlined in section 3.1.
Under investigation here is at the forefront of technology. Studying a Business IT degree puts me in a great position to understand how cloud based collaboration for smartphones can transform and change businesses. From a dynamic and growing market that is rapidly expanding collaboration can be used by anyone anywhere, for many years collaboration has been available in more manual form. The use of cloud and smartphones takes this a step further allowing collaboration to be efficient, low cost and highly effective to businesses.
As an undergraduate gaining an insight to this area and its possibilities for future development puts me in a great position amongst other students. This will prove extremely valuable when applying to graduate schemes in industry.
• What are the project objectives?
The objectives must define what is to be achieved and should state how the extent of that achievement will be assessed. The problem that the project is intended to solve must be outlined and an indication given of the artefact to be produced.
Research:
• Possible solutions if cloud collaboration on the smartphone is a feasible option.
• How important is it to businesses and personal life. What effects does it have on people in different industries?
• Why would people use collaboration and are there any new ways to collaborate using the smartphone.
• Research the demand for collaboration with smartphones, why people use them as an alternative to laptops & PCs. If there is such demand, how important will this be seen by businesses.
Artefact:
Setting up a demo environment to show how a solution works. Develop and produce an application that shows how the smartphone takes advantage of cloud technology demonstrating collaboration.
Workplan:
You must include a detailed project work breakdown or a schedule of work. This may be done as e.g. a week-by-week work-plan, or a Gantt chart etc.
• Background Study: 2 ½ weeks
Research Cloud Computing and find out where it is today with smartphones.
Define research questions, find out answers for these; user studies, user analysis, collate data.
Discuss results and how to deal with these research questions.
What cloud offers that isn’t available today?
• Requirements Analysis: - Varied, amount of users to ask: 2 weeks
Evaluate and see if there is a need for collaboration on the smartphone.
What are you going to do with the smartphone?
Define Target Audience:
Research what peoples demands in industry are they have for collaboration.
What is the intended target audience conducted by Field studies & User Surveys.
• Functionality Design: 2 weeks
Application development, specification
• Prototype: 3 weeks
Testing, mock ups
• Evaluation: 1 week
Evaluation of artefact
• Data Analysis: 1 week
Evaluating the user interface, performance testing.
• Conclusion: 1 week
Results discovered about the future of Cloud and the Smartphone.
What makes the project that you are proposing worthy of a student studying for a Bachelors degree?
My project is based on technologies that are the latest step in IT evolution - combining cloud based collaboration with the smartphone. Both are set to create big changes and challenges within the industry.
The smartphone and cloud market are growing at a fast rate in the UK and across the world and with tough competition between rival companies makes this study an interesting and compelling worthy cause.
• How does this project relate to your degree title outcomes?
What makes this project relevant to your chosen degree? You need to show that the project is in-line with expectations as outlined in section 3.1.
Under investigation here is at the forefront of technology. Studying a Business IT degree puts me in a great position to understand how cloud based collaboration for smartphones can transform and change businesses. From a dynamic and growing market that is rapidly expanding collaboration can be used by anyone anywhere, for many years collaboration has been available in more manual form. The use of cloud and smartphones takes this a step further allowing collaboration to be efficient, low cost and highly effective to businesses.
As an undergraduate gaining an insight to this area and its possibilities for future development puts me in a great position amongst other students. This will prove extremely valuable when applying to graduate schemes in industry.
• What are the project objectives?
The objectives must define what is to be achieved and should state how the extent of that achievement will be assessed. The problem that the project is intended to solve must be outlined and an indication given of the artefact to be produced.
Research:
• Possible solutions if cloud collaboration on the smartphone is a feasible option.
• How important is it to businesses and personal life. What effects does it have on people in different industries?
• Why would people use collaboration and are there any new ways to collaborate using the smartphone.
• Research the demand for collaboration with smartphones, why people use them as an alternative to laptops & PCs. If there is such demand, how important will this be seen by businesses.
Artefact:
Setting up a demo environment to show how a solution works. Develop and produce an application that shows how the smartphone takes advantage of cloud technology demonstrating collaboration.
Workplan:
You must include a detailed project work breakdown or a schedule of work. This may be done as e.g. a week-by-week work-plan, or a Gantt chart etc.
• Background Study: 2 ½ weeks
Research Cloud Computing and find out where it is today with smartphones.
Define research questions, find out answers for these; user studies, user analysis, collate data.
Discuss results and how to deal with these research questions.
What cloud offers that isn’t available today?
• Requirements Analysis: - Varied, amount of users to ask: 2 weeks
Evaluate and see if there is a need for collaboration on the smartphone.
What are you going to do with the smartphone?
Define Target Audience:
Research what peoples demands in industry are they have for collaboration.
What is the intended target audience conducted by Field studies & User Surveys.
• Functionality Design: 2 weeks
Application development, specification
• Prototype: 3 weeks
Testing, mock ups
• Evaluation: 1 week
Evaluation of artefact
• Data Analysis: 1 week
Evaluating the user interface, performance testing.
• Conclusion: 1 week
Results discovered about the future of Cloud and the Smartphone.
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