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These are available projects for IS480. The descriptions are maintained by the sponsor or sent to the course manager. Some projects provide [http://blue.smu.edu.sg/IS480/2009-2010/Sponsor/Awards.asp awards]. Past projects [[Projects/2009-2010_Term_1 | Term 1]] [[Projects/2009-2010_Term_2 | Term 2]].
 
These are available projects for IS480. The descriptions are maintained by the sponsor or sent to the course manager. Some projects provide [http://blue.smu.edu.sg/IS480/2009-2010/Sponsor/Awards.asp awards]. Past projects [[Projects/2009-2010_Term_1 | Term 1]] [[Projects/2009-2010_Term_2 | Term 2]].
 
==Lien Centre for Social Innovation==
 
These projects are eligible for [http://blue.smu.edu.sg/IS480/2010-2011/Sponsor/LienCentre/LienAward.asp Lien Award] ([http://blue.smu.edu.sg/IS480/2009-2010/Sponsor/LienCentre/LienAward.asp 2009-2010] awarded in term 1, 2010-2011 starts again in term 1). Note that the projects are mainly based on organizations with little IT expertise or infrastructure. Teams are required to be independent and produce an easy maintenance system.
 
 
=== Tiger Foundation ===
 
 
''' Tiger Foundation Web Portal '''
 
 
The [http://www.thetigerfoundation.com/home/ Tiger Foundation website] is evolving all the time and we are endeavoring to differentiate ourselves in the humanitarian sector by creating an ‘experience’ when people visit our site. Donor contributions are vital to the sustainability of any NGO. The Tiger Foundation faces the same challenges as other NGOs. To create an ‘experience’ we want to launch a project which will enable our website to ‘come to life’. This will entail interaction for your team with our project in Cambodia as well as our Pillar specialists here in Singapore. We want to create a 3D animation of the school which our benefactor and provide donors with a very unique experience. Your team will gain first hand experience on why we are defining our humanitarian efforts in such a way and then using their collective skills to provide a solution which will then enable greater revenue streams of funding for the Tiger Foundation. The 3D animation will allow donors to collectively select what projects they want to support but provide them with a unique experience of giving.
 
 
Contact: Mark Philpott (Mark.Philpott@thetigerfoundation.com), Tiger Foundation Ltd.
 
Charity Number 2135
 
  
 
==Tsunami Education Fund (TEF) - United World College SEA==
 
==Tsunami Education Fund (TEF) - United World College SEA==

Revision as of 13:29, 24 February 2010

These are available projects for IS480. The descriptions are maintained by the sponsor or sent to the course manager. Some projects provide awards. Past projects Term 1 Term 2.

Tsunami Education Fund (TEF) - United World College SEA

This is an extension project for a previous IS480 project in Term 1 by team HighFlyer

TEF's mission is to fund children that were orphaned in the Tsunami of December 2004 in order that they can attend school. It has setup the following goals

  • Project to last for a minimum of 10 years.
  • Funding direct to orphan's (recipients) accounts on a monthly basis.
  • Funding dependent on receiving recipients school reports.
  • 100% of funds raised go to recipients.
  • Funding sufficient to help meet education costs (schooling is free) but insufficient to live on.

TEF database system improvement

Image:Distributing stationaries to students
  • Redesign and redevelop or extend the existing database to manage information that keeps track of the student recipients.
  • Note that the system must be easy to use, maintain and extend. Some of the features is to redevelop or extend existing work:
    • Data entry and validation with multi user login
    • Import/export spreadsheet files
    • Search and report generation
    • Store and retreive photos
  • Team are required to suggest future enhancements such as
    • A basic web content editing feature

Contact Jumiah Tornroth [jumiahuwc@uwcsea.edu.sg].

This project is eligible for Lien Award

IDS

IDS

Background: The IDS group provides business partners a menu of Integrated-Distribution Services in Marketing, Logistics and Manufacturing across Asia. Logistic is the fundamental enabler, connecting each into an end-to-end value chain from raw materials to consumer. www.idsgroup.com

The IDS Group have one interesting project.

  1. Compass (See what you can do with mobile medical application) Sponsor: IDS Singapore and

Team size: 4-6 members

These projects are for term 2 (Jan 2009) but you should contact IDS early to confirm the project. Good luck.

Contact: Tan Keng Seng (khengseng.tan@idsgroup.com) Admin/process and Paul Fowler (paul.fowler@idsgroup.com) subject matter.

iLab@SMU

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ iLab@SMU is a collaborative partnership setup in 2006 by Standard Chartered Bank and SMU to create a hotbed for business, technology and financial innovations that will be rolled out across the Bank's network in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, while delivering on the Bank's commitment and belief in talent development. The collaboration creates opportunities for students to experience the corporate environment as they work on projects to solve real-life business problems with the Bank.

iLab@SMU has sponsored close to thirty IS480 projects since its inception in 2006 and had generously recognized and rewarded excellent performance from IS480 teams and individuals that delivered exceptional results in their projects. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Got ideas? Talk to us about it!

Come to us if you want to explore project possibilities. A number of iLAB projects have been initiated by YOUR ideas, and then refined through interaction with SCB professionals.


Requirements for ALL iLab@SMU projects : passion and willingness to explore boundaries of innovations - new tools, development environment. (You should have already completed Software Engineering & Enterprise Integration)


Contact: Koh Lian Chee - lckoh@smu.edu.sg

Advance Network Technology Laboratories Pte Lte

Background: AntLab is the winner of the [Innovative Product/Service at the [InfoComm Awards 2008]. "We’re both proud and humbled with being recognized with the IT industry’s highest accolade for our latest innovation for internet online transaction security solution called Securite (see http://www.securitelive.com/). We have decided to release one edition of the client software for free from our website [[1]]."

Project: Marketing Securite

Some of the famous technology successes in the world has more to do with marketing, distribution channels and design, rather than the strength of the technology or product. Take the iPod for example. Arguably, MP3 players were available way before the launch of Apple’s iPod, but since its launch, the iPod has outsold any MP3 player brand by virtue of its sleek design and cool geek factor than revolutionary technology. Microsoft Windows in terms of technical stability floundered for many years since version 2.0 in late 1990s till Vista today, but outsold as the OS of desktop choice for the last decade.

We have a homegrown security solution which has won both global and Singapore accolades. (See: www.securitelive.com). It’s even available for free download for a limited period. However, how can we ensure its success through the use of IT? Will the power of viral marketing work here? Or perhaps the blogsphere offers the best word-of-mouth marketing opportunities? Or perhaps the coolest website with the latest web technologies to help any interested to download and experience Securite effectively? Is it possible to effectively reach out to the rest of the world using web technologies in a way that results in real business impact? Or is this just wishful thinking of young aspiring computer graduates who doesn’t have the experience to realize what’s “really out there?” Realistically, what % of the 200,000 households and 2 million computer users can we reach even in Singapore?

Gen-Y young computer users may not be aware that many Gen-X or older generation of business and IT users do not even blog. They may not even use Wikipedia for their information search. It’s easy to be caught up in your own “sphere” and not be aware of what’s out there. Students graduating may be hit with this reality when they go out to work, or set up their own businesses/IT enterprises and have to grapple with combining both the latest and the traditional to achieve success.

This project aims to explore what are the best ways of marketing an IT online software in this region in a B2C fashion. Student’s will need their creativity and prepare and propose what they deem to be the best ways to use web technologies to promote Securite. They can propose to reate a micosite. They can propose to create a YouTube video with the help of a professional videographer. They can take part in online marketing campaigns, forums, web blogs. Depending on the proposal accepted, a budget including working with real-life PR agencies and marketing companies may be available.

We want to attempt to create history by putting into practice what we hear other case studies and success stories have done, and learn if those are just flukes or really does work. Can Securite achieve for online transaction security what Skype has done for VOIP and P2P communications?

Contact: Mr Ang Kwang Tat, CEO [angkt@antlabs.com]

Note from course manager: IS480 requires an IT implementation/built/prototype beyond a report/survey/use of some tools/applications.

Ori Sasson

Project: Ticket System for Social Enterprise

Customise an existing open source framework (OTRS - #[2]) for use by a social enterprise for web-based handling of service requests. The framework is PERL-based, and the customisation is to implement specific workflows.

Contact: Ori Sasson, orisasson@smu.edu.sg

SAS Institute, Inc

Ongoing Projects

Project: Scenario Based Planning

Objective of project: The students will work with SAS Financial Intelligence (FI) team to design and plan scenario based planning for various business functions (eg. HR, Sales) and involve in incorporating their design into existing solutions.

Scope and deliverables of project: Draft designs for innovative and scalable what-if analysis for budget planning and implement the designs into industry-ready solutions using SAS Financial Management solutions

Click for Details

Other proposed Projects

Project 1: Operational Logistics Decision Support System demo scenarios

Objective of project: Using SAS to enable logistics & supply chain analytics and optimization

Preferred timeline to start and complete: May to Jul

Scope and deliverables of project: a demo with relevant scenarios

Preferred background: students with strong statistical and operations research knowledge

Project 2: Microdata Anonymization

Objective of project': Using SAS to enable microdata anonymization of census data

Preferred timeline to start and complete: May to Jul

Scope and deliverables of project: research into methods of anonymization/disclosure control regarding census data, use SAS to develop ways to easily apply/ automate anonymization techniques

Preferred background: students with strong statistical and data preparation knowledge

Preferred timeline to start and complete: 4-5 months

Scope and deliverables of project: The students will learn concepts and product information from the SAS FI team and will be responsible to draft designs for innovative and scalable what-if analysis for budget planning. The students will then proceed to implement their designs into industry-ready solutions using SAS Financial Management solutions

Preferred background: students with Finance Major

Contact: Swapna Gottipati (swapnag@smu.edu.sg)

Note from course manager: IS480 requires an IT implementation/built/prototype beyond a report/survey/use of some tools/applications.

Richard C. Davis

Project 2: Animation Sketching System

Objective of project: K-Sketch is a research system that allows novices to quickly sketch simple animations ([3]). The first version of this system has been available for a year and has thousands of users. However, the system has major scalability, reliability, and usability problems. In this project, students will re-architect and re-implement the system under the supervision of the original designer. Experience with C# and Microsoft Silverlight is desirable, but not required.

Contact: Richard C. Davis (rcdavis@smu.edu.sg)

FACT Software International Pte Ltd

FACT Software provides accounting and payroll systems to SME.

Project 1: Business Gaming

Look at building a "What If" scenario connected to FACT ERP.X. A kind of putting the entire company in the Intensive Care Unit with all monitors attached. Live data is fed from FACT ERP.X. Any change of parameters made by the user will result in all the key numbers reflecting the changes. Ideal for decision making.

Project 2: Connectors with the Outside World

Develop a Web Service Library to connect FACT ERP.X to the outside world (example : POS Integration, e-Commerce, Webstores etc). This library would be generic and hence any external application will be able to pull data from FACT ERP.X as well as push data into FACT ERP.X.

Project 3: eLearning

Develop a platform for learning how to use FACT ERP.X at the basic level, intermediate and advanced levels - both for internal staff as well for users. A kind of plug and play platform on which we could rapidly develop courseware. Would include online tests with sample data, including online certification.

Project 4: FACT Interchange Format

Develop an industry standard interchange format for import and export of data which the outside world needs (examples : banks, customers, suppliers). Send out Sale Invoices to customers, import Bank Statements, import sales data from POS systems etc.

Project 5: Migration from VFP to Client-Server

Look at the possibility of an automated code conversion from Visual FoxPro (VFP) to a client server platform.

Contact: Rashid Sohaib (rashid@factsoftware.com)

Edunamics Pte Ltd

Project: Development of Literacy Games

Develop educational games using Flash or Silverlight. The company will assist in providing content for the games.

Contact: Asst. Prof. Ori Sasson (orisasson@smu.edu.sg)

Isage Communications Pte Ltd

Background:

File server compliance is a daunting task for any IT compliance manager. In corporate businesses, there can be hundreds of file servers scattered across the corporate network that store thousands of documents, images and databases, each with sensitive data hidden within and each being assigned with company specific access control list.

IT compliance manager often has to deal with issues whether their file servers are secured enough. A good starting point is to make sure the security of the file servers is complied with international compliance standard like Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Payment Credit Industry (PCI), The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) etc.

As such, it is desired to have a single software that can provide complete management on this aspect.

Project Description:

There are essential TWO parts to the project: 1. An auditing platform to collect file/folder data with regards to the file server 2. A reporting platform to generate useful reports based on the auditing standards

For more info, click [here]

Contact: Felix, Ng, Channels Manager (felix@isagecomm.com)

Vicimi Pte Ltd

Location Based Direction Service with Google Map

What?

To build a driving, public transports and walking location based direction service with Google Map. It must be able to generate directions with customized transport and travel modes of the following in a user friendly and interactive AJAX interface:

  1. Walking
  2. Driving
  3. Taxi
  4. MRT
  5. Bus
  6. MRT and bus

The services will be used by the user on our web platform, and also released to the developers as an Application Programming Interface to create new applications around it. The system will include a portal for transport service providers to upload and update their transport services. The portal will allow new transport service providers to sign up a new account, manage and maintain the information of their services.

For more info, click [here]

Contact: Phang Guo Hao, auguste.phang@vicimi.com

H.N. Mok

Java Game to Teach Java Programming

Programming can be fun (I think programming IS fun, but then... that's controversial... so let's put it this way instead: programming CAN BE fun.) We can make it more fun (funnier) by introducing games into the teaching of it. This is not a fresh idea; IBM & others have got similiar projects (e.g. Robocode etc). I have started writing a small game to aid in the teaching of basic Java constructs (decision making, looping & programming logic), & will need some additional work to expand on my current work and complete the package which is intended for open-source release by end of this year.

Prerequisites: Passion & proficiency in Java programming. Students should have preferably completed OOAD and SE (students can be doing SE concurrently as well).

Timeline: If nothing goes wrong, this project is expected to take <6 months. There is a lot of flexibility in scope and this project is extensible to very difficult proportions, so the amount of time required is dependent on the scope which will be agreed upon.

Description: You will be dabbling with Java2D stuff (& possibly Java3D) on the desktop environment (i.e. Java application development - not Web application development). I will expect the team to adopt the full SDLC approach - which means that everything must be documented (SRS, design model, user manual etc) & properly tested (test plans, test cases etc). Good design is of paramountal importance (it shouldn't just run - but must be architected for scalability, extensibility, flexibility etc etc...) Don't expect a lot of technical guidance from me; you will have to pick up graphics programming in Java yourself (lots of free tutorials available anyway) - I did some crude 2D animation in my prototype, but they are really ugly, & a good game should have excellent graphics. There can be some marketing element to the project as well; students can start a marketing campaign to let the world know about this work.

Contact: Mok Heng Ngee (hnmok@smu.edu.sg, tel 96630214), Instructor, SIS/SMU.

DSO National Laboratories

Real-time Adversarial Game Prototype

Problem Statement: Real-time strategy games are useful tools in providing an environment to enable ample opportunities for decision-making as players strategize to defeat the opponent. However, standard metrics that are provided in commercial games (wins, losses, mouse-clicks) are not easily available external to the game nor do they present a good interpretation for the analysis of the decision-making of the players.

Objective: This project aims to design a visually simple RTS game that is functionally complete to manage and interpret decision-making in an adversarial environment.

Requirements: (1) Multiplayer game (at least 2 players) (2) Saves certain gameplay data into database (3) Allows in-game 3rd party observation and intervention (allows someone to watch the game, pause the game, and type questions to get responses from players) (4) Allows scenario design (Able to change the map) (5) Should be intuitive and engaging to play

It can be a very simplified version of a real-time strategy game (aka warcraft or rise of nations) with 2D graphics (grid with different colours for terrain and icons for various units that can attack each other). So it might look a bit like chess, but with a real time (not turn based) element to it

Contact: Yu Shuli (yshuli@dso.org.sg)

Ingram Micro Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.

HR Reports and Dashboard

Contact: Jacqueline HRIS Specialist (Jacqueline.Wong@ingrammicro-asia.com)


ONE(SINGAPORE) – Stand Up Take Action Against Poverty

These projects are eligible for Lien Award

ONE (SINGAPORE) is locally-registered society dedicated to raising public awareness and taking concrete actions to Make Poverty History. Every three seconds a child dies from extreme poverty. But it doesn't have to be this way. The resources and technology exist in the world today to transform the hopes and dreams of an entire generation.

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Our signature event is Stand Up Take Action Against Poverty, a global campaign that is co-organised by the UN Millennium Campaign and the Global Call to Action Against Poverty. From 17th to 19th October 2009, ONE (SINGAPORE)'s supporters joined 173 million people in "Stand Up and Take Action Against Poverty" to call on world leaders to do the right thing and honour their commitments to end poverty.


ONE (SINGAPORE) also partners with Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2) on The Cuff Road Project to assist homeless and jobless migrant workers in Singapore; the Every ONE Can campaign assists local neighbors in need. More information about ONE (SINGAPORE) can be found in the following 2 websites. (1)(2)


CHALLENGE 1

The ONE (SINGAPORE) 2015 Countdown Clock was created to show world leaders exactly how much time they have left – person by person, second by second – to meet the promise of the Millennium Development Goals. Participants simply take a photo of themselves holding a number 0 – 9 and submit it online to be part of the clock.

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The clock launched with black and white celebrity photos, as well as a quote from each celebrity explaining why s/he is taking action. On 17 October 2008, the clock was opened up to members of the public. More than 2600 people submitted pictures, thanks in part to student volunteers who approached pedestrians to tell them about the campaign. The clock received so many hits (over 1 million according to server logs) that the server crashed. (The clock was quickly migrated to a new machine.) The clock was relaunched to coincide with Stand Up 2009.


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Your challenge is to make the 2015 Countdown Clock accessible for mobile phone users, including

(a) enabling users to upload photos from their mobile phones to the clock

(b) enabling users to easily share information about the clock (ie “i've just uploaded my photo to the 2015 Countdown Clock. See my photo here”)

(c) viewing the clock from mobile *


Please note that Stand Up 2010 will be held from 17-19 September. So the deadline for this project is 15 August.


  • The last requirement may be the most tricky, as the 2015 Countdown Clock is designed in Flash, which can be difficult to view from most mobile phones. Students could think about developing an application for iPhones or a work-around such as not viewing the Clock in action, but seeing a time-accurate image of it containing the user's photo and a link to view the Clock from a PC; creative solutions are encouraged.


CHALLENGE 2

The ONE (SINGAPORE) websites – www.onesingapore.org and www.standup.sg – are an integral part of the organisation's communications strategy. The websites must clearly inform readers about the issues and provide opportunities to take action. Your challenge is to

(a) provide greater interactivity

(b) make it easier to update

(c) link the website to an improved database

While we have two websites, we encourage your team to focus on just one. Should you choose, standup.sg please note that the deadline for completion is 1 August. The deadline for onesingapore.org is more flexible.


CHALLENGE 3

“Mobilise” the ONE (SINGAPORE) websites – in part or in whole. This requires creating a version of the website that can be easily viewed from most mobile phones.


SPECIFICATIONS

Here are the specs of the current host server. We're using Unix Web Hosting:

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  • Quad Core Server
  • 10MBPS Shared Pool Singapore Bandwidth
  • MySQL Database
  • 5 GB Disk Space


CONTACTS:

Chris Basil, chris@yolk.com.sg, 9457-4277

Meraj Huda, meraj.huda@gmail.com , 9185-1542