IT 8003 Cloud Computing For this activity you need to divide your class in groups 1 Group Activity 1 “SuperTAX Software” 2 SuperTax Overview Did you know President Abraham Lincoln, one of America's most beloved leaders, also instituted one of its least liked obligations - the income tax? In this brief history of taxes, see the historical events which shaped income taxes in the United States today. SuperTax is an American tax preparation software package developed in the mid-1980s. SuperTax Corporation is headquartered in Mountain View, California. 2 Group Activity 1 “SuperTAX Software” 3 SuperTax Information Desktop Software. Support MS Windows and Mac OS. Software method: CD/DVD media format. Different versions: SuperTAX Basic, Deluxe, Premier, and Home & Business. Used by millions of users and organizations. Group Activity 1 “SuperTAX Software” 4 SuperTAX Project SuperTAX has hired your group as a consultant to move their Desktop Software to a Traditional IT Hosted Software, available Online. Group Activity 1 “SuperTAX Software” 5 For Discussion: Find the challenges that your team will encounter attempting to move SuperTAX Software to the new platform. Prepared a presentation for the class. On your Group you will need to define positions. For example: Project Manager, Senior Project Network, Senior Project Engineer, etc. Group Activity 1 “SuperTAX Software” 6 Infrastructure Software Development Software Testing Marketing & Business Model Project Management CHALLENGES Group Activity 1 “SuperTAX Software” 7 Infrastructure No more test in a single machine. (CD/DVD format model) Test in a production cluster. (20, 30 users?) A larger cluster can bring problems. (1000’s of users) Testing must be done for different clients (mobile, desktops, OS) Small performance bottleneck. Slow performance. CHALLENGES Group Activity 1 “SuperTAX Software” 8 Marketing & Business Model One time fixed cost vs. subscription model Before a CD was sold, now a subscription model. Maintenance and replacement of cooling, power, and server is required CHALLENGES Group Activity 1 “SuperTAX Software” 9 Project Management Project can take many months to years for Software Development cycle. What model is appropriate for Hosted application. (Agile vs. waterfall) Ability to try new features faster. CHALLENGES RUNNING HEAD: INTERSESSION 5 FINAL PROJECT PROJECTION 1 INTERSESSION 5 FINAL PROJECT PROJECTION 5 INTERSESSION 5 FINAL PROJECT PROJECTION Shalini Kantamneni Ottawa University Intersession 5 Final Project Projection The Design Process This process involves the formulation of a model to be used in deriving a comprehensive cloud application. In this case, the model-view-controller design pattern will be used. This type of design pattern partitions the logic of the application into three distinct domains that are to be interconnected to provide a working cloud application (Jailia et al., 2016). ...