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Introduction

The Transaction Management System (TMS) Marketing Project is to develop a number of applications with the intent to aid marketing and sale of the products and intellectual property owned by Clearfield Knowledge Solutions.

To this end, the TMS Marketing Project will seek to satisfy the need for demo applications to exhibit the functionality of Clearfield’s main technologies, AMBER and TMS (transaction management system).

The TMS Marketing Project will identify specific functionalities that will show the advantages, strengths and unique capabilities of Clearfield’s technologies to the potential customers.

Aims

	Research TMS.
	Work through a real life Software Development Lifecycle.
	Market TMS.

Progress

	Signed off the Project brief.
	Handover of the schedule document.
	Schedule presentation.
	Handover of the specifications document.
	Specifications presentation.
	Consolidation Workshop.

Scheduled Completion Date	Activity	Status
12 - 04 - 2003	Project Schedule Presentation	COMPLETE
12 - 04 - 2003	Project Schedule Document Submission	COMPLETE
07 - 06 - 2003	Project Specification Presentation	COMPLETE
07 - 06 - 2003	Project Specification Document Submission	COMPLETE
27 - 09 - 2003	Final Presentation	COMPLETE
17 - 10 - 2003	Project Handover to Clearfield	COMPLETE - Got 100% Yay!

Coffee Purchasing Application

The Coffee Purchasing application mainly consists of Html pages, Java Servlets, JSPs (Java Server Pages), Java Beans and manager classes.

	JSP Pages: Handle dynamic content and control page forwarding.
	Java Beans: Perform data validation.
	Data Manager classes: Provide data management functions to the Java Servlets.

XML Messaging: For communicating with TMS.

Stocks and Commodities Trading Platform

The Stocks and Commodities application mainly consists of Html pages, Java Applet, and XML messaging.

	Html Pages: Host the main application - an applet.
	Java Applet: To be developed using Amber (another Clearfield product), which is a package that assists in the development of advanced User Interface features.
	XML Messaging: For communicating with TMS.

Pinboard Messaging Application

The Pinboard Messaging application mainly consists of a Java Application, and XML messaging.

	Java Application: To be developed using javax.swing.
	XML Messaging: For communicating with TMS.

Conclusions

The project has had a lot of success in terms of business benefits. Starbucks has showed an active interest in the Coffee Purchasing Application. A UK firm is reportedly interested in the Stock Trading Platform. As for the Pinboard Notification application, the general opinion is that Microsoft Outlook and similar Microsoft products provide the same functions, so why use Pinboard? However, news is not all that bad for Clearfield. Clearfield is planning to market Pinboard Notification application as an added extra to the other application(s).

Summarising, it can be said that the TMS Marketing Project has achieved the 3 aims outlined earlier. We have successfully researched TMS, developed the 3 applications by working through the full software development lifecycle, and have stimulated a market interest in the Clearfield technologies, namely TMS and Amber.

Project Brief

Click here to view the brief: Project Brief.doc

Project Schedule

Click here to view the project schedule: Project Schedule.doc

Presentation One Slides

Here are the presentation slides of the schedule presentation.:
Click here to view the slides: Presentation1.ppt

Project Specifications

Click here to get the specifications document: Project Specifications.doc

Presentation Two Slides

Here are the presentation slides of the specifications presentation.:
Click here to view the slides: Presentation2 .ppt

Presentation Three (Workshop) Slides

Here are the presentation slides of the specifications presentation.:
Click here to view the slides: WorkShop Presentation.ppt