Software+2

Discuss the following scenarios and choose the appropriate software that each business would buy.
 * Paired Task **


 * Choose from Off-the-shelf, Customised or Bespoke and you will need to provide a brief justification for your choice when discussed.**

Scenarios: Customised because this company can afford it and has specific needs
 * 1) A medium sized company needs to keep track of customers shopping frequency in a database and automatically produce marketing emails every month to customers who have made purchases. They have identified software that could keep track of the shopping frequency but it does not produce the emails.

Bespoke because you would need a source code that you own
 * 1) A company has a signed a deal with another company to provide technical information for specific products. The products and requirements can change at any time and therefore the source code needs to be changed frequently to keep it up to date.

>> >> custom, because this medium sized company can afford it and off the shelf will not work out
 * 1) A small business wishes to open and edit photographs they’ve taken and add their company name to them. They then need to save the photographs in a number of different picture formats.
 * 2) Off the shelf because its cheap and suits its needs
 * 1) A medium sized company wants to start making goods that many other companies already produce. They have identified a way that could produce the goods much cheaper if software controlled the production but have listed 8 requirements that the software **must** do in order for the business to be successful. Having looked at all the software available, they have found an application which meets 4 out of their 8 requirements.


 * 1) A very large international company is planning to set up a new department one year from now. They have large amounts of staff and money available. The department’s job will be to type up hand-written letters received by their customers and save them to the company network.