Presentation on Evaluation of teams

Team 2 presented an important topic of this course. The presentation was to analyze a given case study to find out the appropriate solution or recommend a cloud service for Fintech Company.   Their topic was “Choosing a cloud provider: AWS, GCP, or Azure”. The presentation was started by Dustin Haley, who introduced the case scenario by presenting the whole case in a summarized way. Dustin covered all important points and also used an eye-catching image of the website to drag audience attention towards his presentation. After presenting the case summary they presented cost, benefits, requirements, and use a case in detail. In addition, they presented three key options or alternative cloud service providers with differences in these services. The thing I like in this presentation was the allocation of time to each point in the discussion. The team divided time for each slide very well as they demonstrated an important point in details and least important points were given limited attention.

Moreover, other than time management another point that makes this presentation well is focused on alternative options. Rather than discussing other irrelevant information they presented actually desired information in this presentation. The evaluated available alternative options in different scenarios or features as system administration efficiency, cost requirements, security system, programmability, scalability, database, services level agreement, resources availability, training, and customer support differences to get the best option for Fintech Company. Presentation content shows the efforts done by the team members on this project.  In my views, it was detailed research that enabled them to present such an amazing presentation in a professional and expert style.  While on the other hand, evaluating this presentation I found a number of things confusing and inappropriate. At first, they added too much content in the slides that were making their slides look complex. Mostly slides were overloaded with content that made the slides look less attractive. In my views, they could make it better by only adding key points in the slides but discussing these points in detail while presenting in front of the audience.  Somehow, excluding graphical presentation overall presentation was well in my views.

In the ending, the recommendation was presented for Fintech Company that I evaluated as a representative of the focal organization. According to the team members, Fintech should go forward with amazon web services. The team member also presented reasons for this recommendation as according to the Amazon web services can provide flexible and affordable services. Most storage and a global network of certified premier consulting partners are also a key reason behind this selection. However, while presenting the recommendation team ignored the importance of the security system, programmability, and scalability. Evaluating this recommendation I would say that the selection of Amazon web services is a wise decision but security-related concerns make this recommendation unacceptable. In accordance with my knowledge about Web amazon services, data dumps in AWS can support data breaches or information accessibility for the third party[1]. White-hat hackers hack cases are evidence of poor security system offered by the AWS (amazon web services) (Mueller, 2019).     

Presentation on Evaluation Team 3

“Fintech: choosing a cloud service provider” is the presentation topic of team 3 (including members Rnadal, BriAuna, and Mohammed Altawyan). Team 3 give a good start to their presentation. From the way of communication or presentation to the way of writing content in the slides, everything was looking appreciable. Team member presented detailed information about the case summary at the beginning of the presentation that was a good step to grab attention and develop an interest in the presentation. Further, the thing I like the most was the presentation of options evaluation with the use of a graph. One of these team members presented different available alternatives adopted by public enterprises in 2018 and 2017. In my views, it was an appropriate way to present such important detail about cloud adoption as because of this graph anyone can easily understand which could system is highly supported by the organizations. Moreover, graphics use made their presentation look professional. Somehow, I also found some areas of improvement in their presentations.

According to my views, they didn’t provide enough detail about the key qualities and features of available alternative options. The presenter could discuss these options in more detail to help the audience get a better understanding of the specifications of these alternative options. Moreover, they could present the pros and cons of each available alternatives in their presentations. However, other than all these overall presentations went well. Coming to the recommendation section I would say that they made a recommendation in accordance with the given case scenario. According to their analysis Amazon web services are best cloud services for Fintech. They made recommendations by considering three main points; low cost, training, and support system.

Evaluating their recommendation I would say that they ignore an important point while making a recommendation. Data security is more important as compared to low cost advantages and full support services. Fintech cannot implement a plan that can bring data security risk. Team suggestions and analysis are well but they forget this important point that makes their recommendation unacceptable for me. In accordance with the given case scenario, Fintech Company was also already facing challenges and immense risk in transferring the transactional processing system of their business to the cloud. Data breaches and theft chances are quite unacceptable. Such issues can turn the fortune of Fintech Company in their market that is not quite desirable. Cloud system will deal with customer data and personal information that the company cannot lose at any cost. The company was looking for an opportunity to strengthen its position with customers. Considering this they cannot take risk of data security-related issues. In my views, the best services for Fintech is that comes with a strong security system. Amazon web services have their own data security system but that system has some drawbacks and limitations that reduce its competitiveness[2].  Excluding security issues Amazon web services is a good option in case the company is only interested in cost advantages and free support system to get work done efficiently and easily.  Somehow, overall oral and written communication was effective and well managed in this presentation.

Presentation Evaluation Team 4

Team 4 consisted of 3 team members presented a case study on “Fintech- Choosing a cloud services provider". The team discussed this topic in quite an appropriate manner. It was a well management presentation as they gave enough detail to each important point in the presentation. How they summarized the case study overview is appreciable. One of their team members presented the background of the case at the beginning of the presentation that was a good step to make all audience familiar with the case in advance. Moreover, they presented details about fintech’s goals as to how they want to strengthen Fintech’s relationship with their customers and how Fintech would like services that bring ease for their targeted customers. Somehow, according to my evaluation team was unable to present goals in a professional style. 

In my opinion, goals could be presented better by making them look professional. For instance, starting goal with the action verb (e.g. Demonstrate, Ensure, Solve, Bring, etc. ) could be a good choice. Moreover, in another slide, they presented a cost analysis that was looking a little confusing. In my views they could add tables to present cost related information or a detailed oral discussion about cost could make their work amazing. Excluding this all other slide's content and way of presentation were good. However, the team also presented some recommendations at the end of their presentations.

According to their recommendations, Microsoft Azure can be a suitable option in comparison to other available alternatives. In accordance with my judgment, their recommendation is appropriate for this case. Microsoft Azure come up with several features and additional benefits that can take performance at the advanced level. Moreover, Microsoft Azure is cost-effective and easy to implement. In this case, the main focus was on data breaches, exploited system vulnerabilities, and malicious insiders while adopting the cloud computing system in the Fintech.

Considering these requirements of Fintech we can say that Microsoft Azure is best for them as Microsoft Azure has all that functions and features that can help Fintech avoid security-related issues. Microsoft Azure also provides 24/7 support so in case of any problem Fintech would be able to contact them and fix their problem. There were also other options available to them (for instance, Amazon web services and Google Cloud Platform) but comparatively Microsoft Azure is the best option that meets all conditions and requirements of Fintech. Although Microsoft Azure is really expensive its strength of outperforming can make it cost-efficient for Fintech as using this company can avoid the extra cost of security.

Cheap programs usually come up with limitations and weaknesses in performance. Therefore, just looking for a cheap option cannot be a logical decision. Here I support the recommendation of this team as in their recommendation preferences is given to the quality of performance, goals accomplishment, and requirements of Fintech rather than only focusing on cost benefits. Briefly speaking, I accept that recommendations as a representative of the focal organization.