Survey tool for prioritisation & weighting multiple dimensions within a Make or Buy decision process
Project duration: 2 months
Brief description
To avoid the cumbersome prioritisation and weighting of dimensions by their clients during the make or buy decision process and to prevent the coming along reduction of validity of the extracted results we facilitated this inefficient and time consuming step within the MoB – Process. Through the simplifying process the amount of information is reduced while the focus is sharpened to the current question. To meet this goal the PTA implemented a webservice with standard internet technologies, hosted at the clients website as a subdomain. This forced reduction of complexity at user perception level enables a higher number of items comparing with each other without any loss validity by increasing of client engagement at the same time. This leads into a higher reliability in their analysis results as before.
Supplement
Within the iterative approach, the raw functionality defined by the requirements engineering process. Subsequently the UI concept is being drawn. The test scenarios are designed along with creation of the Client/Server architecture as software architecture paradigm. At the beginning of the implementation process the IDE, in this case Visual Studio Code with several plugins, as well as the databases and the entire underlying structure is established. The code is written at server side in PHP 7.2 and at the client side with the default client technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery. To avoid a tremendous amount of page reloads and to achieve a dynamic user experience AJAX is used for exchanging data between both hosts at runtime.