Question

Identifying a business problem or opportunity and proposing a technology solution. You will need to identify a real-life business that you are familiar with. The business must have a problem or an opportunity that can make use of an information technology solution. Select a technology category that will serve as a solution for the problem or opportunity you have identified for the selected business.

For the purposes of this project, it is important to differentiate between a technology solution category (or technology category) and a specific vendor or product. The technology category is a broad area, such as CRM system or web analytics. A vendor/product is a specific company or product, such as Salesforce, Oracle, Google Analytics, Omnture, and so forth.

The technology solution category selected for this project is acceptable if

• that technology is available from more than one vendor/company; or
• There exists at least one other technology that can be used as an alternative solution.

Although the list of technology categories that you can choose for your Course Project is vast, the list below gives some suggestions you may want to consider.

• Asset tracking system
• Augmented reality
• Business analytics
• Business intelligence
• Cloud-based services (software, hardware, storage, etc)
• Collaboration technologies
• Communication technologies
• Customer records system
• Database system or application
• eBusiness
• eCommerce
• Electronic document management system
• Electronic medical records system
• Global information system
• Group decision support system
• HRM system
• Information systems security solutions
• Internet analytics implementation (web analytics, social media analytics, video analytics, etc.)
• Internet of things
• Inventory management system
• Knowledge management system
• mCommerce
• Network technologies
• Project management system/software

Answer 1

Business Opportunity: Old Age Homes

Description: Senior citizens often face problems with their children and grand children when they are staying with them. We are proposing an idea of old age homes which is like day care for kids, it will not only provide home for elderly but also provides some activities where people can join for few days/a day/ few hours. Senior citizens often need some time out of their houses and they don't want to leave their home permanently. This old age home provides the opportunity to spent more time with people like you, it also offers pooja, yoga, etc to keep you entertained. We have created an online portal to register and this portal also offers some resources online.

Technology Solution: eBusiness

Vendor: There are various vendors like wordpress where they offer hosting online portals.