ATZ Finance is a financial services company. ATZ Finance has 15 offices in the South, Midwest, and Northeast regions of United States. Customers who want to borrow money for various reasons submit online loan applications. The type of loans provided by ATZ Finance include personal loans, business loans, car loans, renovation loans, project loans, etc. Home loans are excluded. Once submitted the online application goes through a loan evaluation process and the outcome may be approved or not approved.
For a successful application, further processing takes process culminating with the customer accepting the terms of the loan, signing, and the loan is disbursed to the customer’s bank account. The users of this web-based application will access it using different kinds of devices: PC, laptop, tablet, and smart phones. Through this system, customers can view, their loan accounts, make payments online from their bank accounts, make enquiries, etc. ATZ Finance personnel can view customer accounts, make updates, etc. You could think of other features that are part of this application.
Your team has been hired by ATZ Finance to develop this application called eFinance, and the system should be a high quality system that meets both the functional and non-functional requirements of eFinance. Some useful questions/points to consider include:
- Who are the users of this system and what are their roles?
- Number of use cases?
- Ensure compliance of Federal regulations for financial institutions [1, 2]
- The interface should be designed to be both simple and user-friendly, ultimately supporting the myriad of mobile platforms available today.
Design the system to work in a highly modularized, potentially multisite environment that allows the seamless access of financial and other data in a safe, secure, and accurate way. In the first few weeks of the course you will work intensively to establish the both the functional and non-functional requirements for the system.
The instructor will act as the overall product owner but it will be up to you to gather detailed requirements for the project.
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