Question

Atrium Bio-Medical Supply, Inc. Atrium Bio-Medical Supply is a medium sized regional supplier of medical and laboratory equipment. Since starting the company 12 years ago, Victoria Dawn has built Atrium into a competitive supply company across several metro areas, but her growth potential is limited because the firm does not have an integrated sales and logistics system. Victoria asked you to evaluate Atrium’s options for acquiring a new system. Tasks 1. What options does Atrium have for acquiring a new system?

Answer 1

The following options are available for acquiring a new system for Atrium:

• Traditional Environment
• Web Based Software

Step-by-step explanation:

Traditional Development:

• In Traditional development, the System design depends on existing hardware and software platforms.
• Development follows one of the three main paths : in-house development, purchase of software package or use of outside consultants.
• The systems run on local and wide-area company network.

Web Based Software:

• In Web based Software, Systems are developed in .Net framework or WebSphere.
• The Web-based systems are easily scalable and can run on multiple hardware environments.
• The Web is treated as the platform.