Proposed Timeline
for development of
Nationwide Process Service
Web Enabled
Office Automation System
13 June 2005
Overview
Phase 0 - Agreement of Terms and Timeline - $2000
Both Nationwide and the Development Team agree to:
Phase 1 - Internal Office Automation Package
Phase 1, Stage 0, Nationwide: Order Hardware
- firewall
- server - internal primary
Received
- server - internal backup
Received
- server - offsite backup
Received
- server - external
Received
- home VPNs - as many as Nationwide wants
On Order
Hardware to be provided by Nationwide, meeting specifications
set be the development team.
Phase 1, Stage 1, Development Team: Data Conversion
Programs - $1000
- ctab2wtab - convert old invoice/client files to new format
Written
- wtab2ctab - convert new invoice/client files to old format
not done
Phase 1, Stage 1 Approval: Approve Data Conversion routines
Phase 1, Stage 2, Development Team: Initial Hardware
Installation and Configuration - $2500
- firewall zones:
testing
- trusted - internal, not accessable by the outside world;
- DMZ - internal, accessable by the outside world;
- untrusted - external, the outside world;
- firewall VPN - configure VPN for working from home.
testing
- servers - install and configure
- linux - debian
installed
- web services - http, apache
installed
- printing and printers - CUPS, rtf2ps, network printers
need to test
- dhcp
test on firewall/router
- ssh
installed
- rsync
need to test
- failover - services to an IP, backup watches IP
and takes over on failure
not done
The Development Team will perform the initial
installation and configuration off site.
Upon completion of initial installation and configuration,
the hardware will be installed in it's destination sites.
- Off-site: $1500
in process
- On-site: $1000
transfer hardware to Nationwide on 18 June 2005
Phase 1, Stage 2 Approval: Initial Hardware Installation
and Configuration
Phase 1, Stage 3, Development team: Primary Internal User
Interface - $1000
- Main Menu
testing
- Internal Create/Edit invoice web page
testing
- Internal Create/Edit client web page
- Print invoice (RTF search and replace)
- Post invoice to Accounts receivable- upon printing invoice
- Unprint - special admin option to remove invoice "posted" flag
- Convert data files
Phase 1, Stage 3 Approval: Internal User Interface
Phase 1, Stage 4, Development team: Statements and
Receivables - $1000
- Generate statements
- Internal Create/Edit payment recieved web page - by invoice
- Internal Create/Edit payment recieved web page - by statement
- Print Client Listing - by client#
- Print Client Listing - by alphabetical
Phase 2 - External Client Web Access
- Client check on invoice status
- Client submit job request
- Agent submit work report
Phase 3 - Future Development NOT Covered by this Contract
- Fail-Over System for External Web Server
Modules: