Feasibility Study

Feasibility Study:

Preliminary investigation examines project feasibility, the likelihood the system will be useful to the organization. The main objective of the feasibility study is to test the Technical, Operational and Economical feasibility for adding new modules and debugging old running system. All systems are feasible if they are given unlimited resources and infinite time. There are aspects in the feasibility study portion of the preliminary investigation:

• Technical Feasibility
• Operation Feasibility

Economical Feasibility

 TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY

The technical issue usually raised during the feasibility stage of the investigation includes the following:

• Does the necessary technology exist to do what is suggested?
• Do the proposed equipments have the technical capacity to hold the data required to use the new system?
• Will the proposed system provide adequate response to inquiries, regardless of the number or location of users?
• Can the system be upgraded if developed?

Are there technical guarantees of accuracy, reliability, ease of access and data security?

OPERATIONAL FEASIBILITY

User-friendly

Customer will use the forms for their various transactions i.e. for adding new routes, viewing the routes details. Also the Customer wants the reports to view the various transactions based on the constraints. Theses forms and reports are generated as user-friendly to the Client.

Reliability

The package wills pick-up current transactions on line. Regarding the old transactions, User will enter them in to the system.

Security

The web server and database server should be protected from hacking, virus etc

Portability

The application will be developed using standard open source software (Except Oracle) like Java, tomcat web server, Internet Explorer Browser etc these software will work both on Windows and Linux o/s.  Hence portability problems will not arise.

Availability

 This software will be available always.

Maintainability

     

The system called the ewheelz uses the 2-tier architecture. The 1st tier is the GUI, which is said to be front-end and the 2nd tier is the database, which uses My-Sql, which is the back-end.  

The front-end can be run on different systems (clients). The database will be running at the server. Users access these forms by using the user-ids and the passwords.

      ECONOMIC FEASILITY

The computerized system takes care of the present existing system’s data flow and procedures completely and should generate all the reports of the manual system besides a host of other management reports.

It should be built as a web based application with separate web server and database server. This is required as the activities are spread through out the organization customer wants a centralized database. Further some of the linked transactions take place in different locations. 

     Open source software like TOMCAT, JAVA, Mysql and Linux is used to minimize the cost for   the Customer.

FEASIBILITY STUDY

A feasibility study is undertaken to determine the possibility of either improving the existing system or developing a completely new system. This study helps to obtain an overview of the problem and to get rough assessment of whether feasible solutions exist. Since the feasibility study may lead to the commitment of large resources, it is important that it is conducted completely and that no fundamental errors of judgment are made.

The purpose of feasibility study is to determine whether the requested project is successfully realizable. There are following aspects of feasibility study, namely

Economic Feasibility: Economic analysis is the most    frequently used method for evaluating the effectiveness of a candidate system. More determine the benefits and the saving that are expressed from a candidate system and compare them costs. If benefits outweigh costs. Otherwise, further justification or alterations in the proposed system will have to be made if it is to have a chance of being approved. This is an ongoing effort that improves in accuracy at each phase of the system life cycle.

By conducting this study I can ascertain the following:

Whether the project is economically feasible?

If enough funds are not available, then what are the sources of funds?

Whether there are sufficient benefits when compared to the costs incurred?

Technical Feasibility: Technical feasibility center around the existing computer system hardware etc. and to what extent it can support the proposed addition. For example, if the current computer is operating at 80% capacity  - an arbitrary ceiling – then running another application could over load the system or require additional hardware. This involves financial consideration to accommodate technical enhancements. If the budget is a serious constraint then the project is judged not feasible.

This study should answer the following questions:

Whether the project can be carried out with the existing equipments?

Whether the existing software is enough?

Can the work be done with the existing personnel?

If a new technology is required, how best can it be implemented?

Operational Feasibility:     It is common knowledge that computer

installations have some thing to do with turnover, transfers, retraining and changes in employee job status. Therefore, it is understandable that the introduction of a candidate system requites special efforts to educate, sell, and train the staff on new ways of conducting business.

Cultural (or Political) feasibility :    This is related to operational

Feasibility . But where operational feasibility deals more with how well the

solution  will meet system requirements, cultural/political feasibility deals

with how the end users feel about the proposed system. Operational

feasibility evaluates whether a system can work, and cultural/political

feasibility asks whether a system will work in a given organizational climate.

The following question can be asked by conducting this study:

o   Does management support the system?

o   How do the end users feel about their role in the new system?

o   What end users or managers may resist or not use the system? Can this problem be overcome? If so, how?

o   How will the working environment of the end users change? Can or will end users and management adapt to the change?

The existing system is manual system where all the work is done manually.

So, this project is a new technology then there is a need to teach about the new Automated Salary Processing System. The technical feasibility is concerned with specifying equipment and software that will successfully support the required task.

Schedule feasibility: Some projects are initiated with specific deadlines. It is necessary to determine whether the deadlines are mandatory or desirable. For instance, a project to develop a system to meet new government reporting regulations may have a deadline that coincides with when the new reports must be initiated. Penalties associated with missing such a deadline may make meeting it mandatory. If the deadlines are desirable rather than mandatory. If the deadlines are rather may make meeting it mandatory. If the deadlines are desirable rather than mandatory, the analyst can propose alternative schedules.

It is preferable (unless the deadline is absolutely mandatory) to deliver a properly functioning information system two months late than to deliver an error-prone, useless information system on time! While missing deadlines can be problematic, developing inadequate systems can be disastrous. It’s a choice between the lesser of two evils.

Legal feasibility: Information systems have a legal impact. First of all,

there are copyright restrictions. For any system that includes purchased

components, one has to make sure that the license copies. But license

agreements and copy

protection can also restrict how you integrate the data and processes with other parts of the system.

Time feasibility  :  time feasibility is a determination of , wether a proposed

project can be implemented fully within a stipulated time frame . if a project

take too much time it is likely to be rejected .