Information Systems Analysis and Design for UNICEF Child Care

Running head: INFORMATION SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
Information Systems Analysis and Design
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction............................................................................................................................2
2. The Approach to Systems Development................................................................................2
3. Systems Requirements...........................................................................................................3
4. Project Cost /Benefit Analysis...............................................................................................5
5. Project Schedule.....................................................................................................................8
Project Plan............................................................................................................................8
Work Breakdown Structure....................................................................................................9
6. System Information Requirement Investigation Techniques...............................................10
7. Reflections and Conclusions................................................................................................11
8. References............................................................................................................................12

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1. Introduction
A group of people governs UNICEF Child Care. The chairman of the company is
John Smith. They provide care to the children of ages ranging between six weeks and
thirteen. UNICEF child care provides food, teachers and the nannies and other services. The
parents those who want the facility pay a minimal charge and they can get UNICEF’s service
for their babies (Issar and Navon 2016). They have subsidiaries in Sydney, Gold Coast, Rock
Hampton, Melbourne and Brisbane. The Child Care Centre aims to manage the inventory and
the workforce across five centres.
UNICEF Child Care’s primary objectives-
 To create a platform where the parents and the UNICEF employee staff can
communicate with each other 24x7
 To manage the inventory across all the centres in Sydney, Rock Hampton, Melbourne
and Brisbane
 To make ordering of the stock products automatic
 To say thank you greetings message to the parents those who deposit fees online
2. The Approach to Systems Development
UNICEF Child Care must hire IT team or might seek help from the IT team. The IT
team will develop the software for them. They will have to adopt cloud computing service
from cloud vendors like Microsoft Azure or Amazon AWS. The IT team will host the ERP
accounting software on the cloud server, and the cloud server will be accessed through the
five subsidiaries (Seethamraju 2015). The employee staff and the admin staff across the five
subsidiaries can be able to control the inventory; they can manage parents and their children’s

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data as well. The ERP software must have the following capabilities. The software must be
developed in such a way that the parents can pay fees online (Altamony et al. 2016). The
software after the payment must send a thank you message back to the parents. The parents
can connect with the staff employees of UNICEF all the time 24x7 with the help of the newly
implemented ERP software. The software must handle the inventory, must check the stock
availability. UNICEF Child Care with the help of the software can be able to identify the
number of supplies they require and can order accordingly. They must appoint an IT Support
team as well (Shen, Chen and Wang 2016). The IT Support Team must train the employees
and the admin staff so that they can use the ERP accounting software smoothly and
efficiently. The employee staff can interact with the parents all the time and solve their
queries.
They must hire or appoint an IT team. The team will develop the ERP accounting
software for their business. They also appoint an IT support team. The IT support team will
install and configure the new software across the five subsidiaries. They will train the
employees and the admin staff. The IT team has the desired technical knowledge to develop
the software. They must have the desired web development knowledge to host the software
on the cloud server. UNICEF must entrust IT team with the ERP accounting software
implementation and must stay assure that the new software will facilitate them in getting
long-term benefits.
3. Systems Requirements
System Requirements can be classified into two groups- functional requirements and
the non-functional requirements.
The functional requirements for UNICEF Child Care are-