Hopefully I can gain some ideas from some of you guys. I am in my final year of university and have a proposed a final year project idea.
The project is to include the core modules of my degree, Business Information Systems:
Databases Web Development Systems Analysis and Design Network Technologies
The idea if have in mind is similar to a piece of software I touched upon while on placement last year. The software was a Business Continuaty Plan / Disaster Recovery tool.
In simplest form. An email was sent to all employees of the business asking for a reply via email saying "Yes I am OK".
If a message was not received from the employee an automated phone-call was made asking the employee to respond by pressing 1 for yes, 2 for no.
All information was then available live on a simple web browser tool.
My idea is to create something similar to this tool and I would appreciate some help with how I could achieve such a system.
Two items specific to my course would be the use of SQL server and programming (Web Page) in ASP.NET C#.
The part I am stuck with would be how I could link such a system together. All idea's would be very much welcomed!
Thanks!
PS wanted to make something slightly more interesting than the usual Business Information System Database linked to a web page.
You do realise that DRP/BCP is usually something undertaken during a massive loss of availability of IT systems? Such things are more often than not manual or paper-based processes for a good reason! Your admins will know if your email system is up or down - same with phone system. If your DR is up to scratch then everything works as normal while the admins address the broken bits. I suppose you could record employees OK state by simply bringing up a simple site on some hosted infrastructure that emails each employee at their private email and gets a reply but a) That's a challenge to export a current list and get consent for private email addresses. b) It's still just a database with a web site. In fact, if you're not comfortable with point b) you might consider a different career. That's pretty much all there is to it for the 95% of corporate IT. The other 5% is stuffing around trying to glue the bits together in a relatively robust way that keeps you out of the DR zone!
You do realise that DRP/BCP is usually something undertaken during a massive loss of availability of IT systems? Such things are more often than not manual or paper-based processes for a good reason! Your admins will know if your email system is up or down - same with phone system. If your DR is up to scratch then everything works as normal while the admins address the broken bits. I suppose you could record employees OK state by simply bringing up a simple site on some hosted infrastructure that emails each employee at their private email and gets a reply but a) That's a challenge to export a current list and get consent for private email addresses. b) It's still just a database with a web site. In fact, if you're not comfortable with point b) you might consider a different career. That's pretty much all there is to it for the 95% of corporate IT. The other 5% is stuffing around trying to glue the bits together in a relatively robust way that keeps you out of the DR zone!
The system would be designed to check the "OK state" of employees of a particular office.
Due to the nature of the business I am unable to tell if all employees will be present in the office. So, if a bomb was to explode or a fire was to break out I need a system that will account for the safe presence of all employees. Using email (work) first to check their safety and if no reply a follow up automated call.
Final Year University project
Posted - 10/01/2012 : 09:39:09
