Moving the school office to the cloud
Lakeside School is made up. It plans to keep its records online instead of on one office computer. Staff will see records from home.
The head is excited. The caretaker asks: what if the internet goes down? Both are right. A good review looks at the gains and the limits, then decides.
By the end of this lesson
Note
I can discuss the benefits and limits of a proposed IT solution for an organisation.
Key words
| Word | What it means |
|---|---|
| Personal data | facts about a living person who can be named |
| Benefit | a good result of a choice |
| Limitation | something that holds a solution back |
| Scalability | how easily a system can grow |
| Outsourcing | paying another company to do a job |
| Service level agreement | a written promise about how well a service will run |
| Availability | how often a service is working when needed |
| Disaster recovery | getting systems and data back after something goes badly wrong |
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Starter: what you already know
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Seven kinds of benefit
A solution can bring benefits. It may help staff get more done (productivity). It may keep services working (availability). It may please customers.
It may cut running costs or improve security. It may make records more accurate. It may help with disaster recovery: getting systems and data back after something goes badly wrong.
Benefits at Lakeside School
| Benefit | How the online records help |
|---|---|
| Productivity | Staff update a record once, from anywhere |
| Availability | Records are reachable out of hours |
| Customer satisfaction | Parents get faster answers |
| Lower running costs | No old office computer to repair |
| Security | Records are backed up and protected by the provider |
| Accuracy | One shared record, not many copies |
| Disaster recovery | Records survive a fire in the office |
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