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Estimated Costs For Inventory Database Server with required Network Interfaces :

DEVELOPMENT COST :

Personnel:

1
System Analyst(260 hrs,,$50/hr)
$ 13000
1
Programmer (120hrs, $40/hr)
$ 4800
1
System Designer (150 hrs, $45/hr)
$ 6750
1
Database Specialist ( 165 hrs, $50/hr)
$ 8250


New Hardware & Software :

1
Database Server, MS Access Compatible
$ 8400
1
Server Software (OS, and other packages)
$ 1200
8
Network client terminals
$ 12000
8
Network client software
$ 1040
Networking equipments
$ 1500

Total Development Cost :
$ 56940

Projected Annual Operating Cost :

1
System Administrator (20hrs/week, $20/hr)
$ 19200
1
Database Analyst (100 hrs/yr, $25/hr)
$ 2500

1
Maintanance Agreement for server and other softwares
$ 800
Other maintanance expenses
$ 500

Total Projected Annual Cost : $ 23000

Cash Flow Description

Year 0

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Year 6

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Development Costs

$56,940

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operation & Maintenance Cost

 

23,000

25,000

27,000

29,000

30,000

32,000

Discount Factors For 8%

1

0.926

0.857

0.794

0.735

0.681

0.63

Time-Adjusted Costs (Adjusted To

-56,940

21,298

21425

21,438

21,315

20,430

20,160

Present Value)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cumulative Time Adjusted Costs

-56,940

-78,238

-99,688

-1,21,126

-1,42,441

-1,62,871

-1,83,031

Over Life-Time)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Benefits Derived From Opeartion

0

30,000

45,000

75,000

90,000

1,25,000

1,50,000

Of New System

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Discount Factors For 8%

1

0.926

0.857

0.794

0.735

0.681

0.63

Time-Adjusted Costs (Current Of

0

27,780

38,565

59,550

66,150

85,125

94,500

Present-Value)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cumulative Time Adjusted Benefits

0

27,780

66,345

1,25,895

1,92,045

2,77,170

3,71,670

Over Life-Time

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cumulative Lifetime Life-Time

-56,940

-50,458

-33,343

4,769

49,604

1,14,299

1,88,639

Adjusted Costs+Benefits:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Accordingly from above chart, it can be inferred that the payback period is 3 year


FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS MATRIX
:

Feasibility Criteria

Wt.

MS Access based

Server

Oracle based

Server

Operational Feasibility :

 

 

 

30%

Fully support user requirements of all classes of users.

User friendly

 

Score : 70

Functionally more effective and interactive.

User friendly

 

Score : 80

Technical

Feasibility :

40%

Matured and proven solution for simple small scale database requirements,

 

Not workable under heavy load, and expanded functions.

 

Not required to hire trained specialist for database management. Technical specialists available easily and cheaply.

 

 

Score : 80

Easily expandable to large scale database solutions.

 

Require SQL server. Front end integration not quite simple.

 

Require trained specialists for modifications or integration requirements.

 

 

 

 

 Score : 70

Economic Feasibility:

 

Cost to Develop:

 

Pay back Period :

 

 

30%

 

 

 

 

Approximately  $ 60,000

 

Appx. 3 years

 

Score : 90

 

 

 

Approximately $ 1,00,000

 

Appx. 4 years

 

Score : 60

Ranking           

100%

80

70


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