Making the Decision
This chapter will take us through a summary of the Financial Widgets Plus (FWP) team’s work and culminate with a sample project definition with an executive summary for the team’s presentation in regard to choosing MariaDB as the new DBMS over their exist
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Making the Decision This chapter will take us through a summary of the Financial Widgets Plus (FWP) team’s work and culminate with a sample project definition with an executive summary for the team’s presentation in regard to choosing MariaDB as the new DBMS over their existing solution. Even though the raw presentation of the work completed so far speaks for itself, one may find that bringing this all together in a professionally formatted presentation should be the primary goal for any project, much less one with the far-reaching scope of migrating to a completely new database backend for a company’s premier product. As with any good analysis it isn’t just about presenting the benefits, but also identifying risks and mitigations in order to minimize those risks, along with an overall Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA), and that was Vernon’s approach. The first thing Vernon wanted to address in the decision making was why FWP would want to undertake such a huge project. Why would any entity take on the additional workload? Why would they allocate resources to such a monumental task when they might be used elsewhere? Why shouldn’t they just stay on their legacy system and continue with business as usual? Ultimately, all of these questions can be answered by the cost analysis phase of this project when it comes to presenting the benefits; however, he also wanted to present a path for moving forward and completing it successfully with a systematically planned approach. A strategy for success if you will that should include the benefits, cost analysis, and at a minimum the first phase of the implementation.
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Making the Decision
Extolling the Benefits The benefits of MariaDB over the existing solution employed by FWP were not easily overlooked and Vernon could not see any reason to not proceed further; however, that final decision would be up to the head of the company and ultimately ownership. There were still questions to be answered and risks to be identified in regard to such a monumental change as performing a complete overhaul of their application’s backend. When we talk about extolling the benefits, we want to effectively answer all off the questions as to why this change should be considered and the reasons the work is beneficial. Part of any good solution analysis begins with identifying the problem and scope along with weighing the benefits of change to the entity. Those benefits can range broadly and should present a solution to a beneficial business need that contains a positive Return on Investment (ROI) to the company. Cost savings can be in time and resources or just an overall existing process improvement of deploying a new solution, altering an existing solution, and identifying the drivers that make the engagement successful. The benefits for the MariaDB solution as compared with the existing solution were substantial and culminated in a list that could extend for many pages. What we will do here
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