System Analysis and Design for Golden North Ice Cream Company

Running head: SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN 1
System Analysis and Design
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Table of Contents
Introduction..............................................................................................................................................3
Designing System Components...............................................................................................................3
System Architecture.............................................................................................................................3
Hosting Environment...........................................................................................................................4
User Interface Design..............................................................................................................................5
User interface Best design Concepts....................................................................................................5
Storyboards..........................................................................................................................................6
Security Concerns and Mitigation Strategies...........................................................................................7
Security Risks and Concerns................................................................................................................7
Mitigation Strategies............................................................................................................................8
System Deployment.................................................................................................................................8
Implementation Plan............................................................................................................................8
System Testing.....................................................................................................................................9
System Deployment...........................................................................................................................10
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................10
References..............................................................................................................................................11

Introduction
Golden North is an Ice Cream making company located in Laura Australia. Currently, the company
has not adopted the online presence is now selling the ice cream on their physical store. The company
is considering implementing an e-commerce web application to enable its customers purchase the ice
cream online and be able to make payments securely (Luo & Zhou, 2011). This paper discusses the
system architecture, user interface design concepts applied, security threats and mitigation strategies,
and deployment plan.
Designing System Components
System Architecture
The system architecture deals with articulation of how the system should be designed and organized.
System architecture is the initial stage in system design process and contains a critical relationship
between requirements and design engineering because it determines the key structural elements and
their relationship in a system (Belean, 2018). Golden North system architecture reflect the native e-
commerce architecture. Decomposing the system architectural design is necessary because it helps in
organizing and structuring the requirements specifications (Eckert & Jankovic, 2016). The diagram
below represents the high-level system architecture for the proposed web application for Golden
North Ice Cream company:

Figure 1: High-Level System Architecture
The main benefit of designing a system architecture is because it provides a high-level presentation to
the stakeholders of how the system will operate. Secondly, it determines if the system will meet the
critical requirements based on the analysis done on the system such as reliability, performance, and
maintainability.
Hosting Environment
The proposed deployment or hosting environment is the cloud platform. This is because the cloud
offers a more secure environment to host legacy systems especially through advanced backup and
recovery strategies (Abdeen, 2017). Golden North will e able to enjoy numerous benefits offered by
cloud computing including freedom and flexibility-by facilitating data syncing independently between
several users. Secondly, hardware configuration is greatly reduced because the user will just need a
platform to access the system (Mertens, 2018). Application integration is very easy in the cloud
environment. Additionally, cloud platform provides the anywhere, anytime access to all the users
regardless of their location as long as they are connected to the internet. Moreover, it is highly reliable