System configuration is always tricky since it affects the way the system behaves; a small change in configuration parameters could have a huge implication on the behavior of the system. This is even trickier when there are a number of systems, each with a different way of dealing with configurations. Thus it is paramount for systems to have a reliable, secure, and traceable configuration system.
Currently many of the features on the company's sites are configured and driven by backend settings in a database. As it now stands, many of these configurations require SQL scripts to make the changes. This is a problem because the database access is limited to the "Operations" team, which means all changes need to go through the standard change control process. With frequent changes across many systems, this can be difficult to mange, time consuming and difficult to track. It is also quite error prone.
In this contest, you will be developing wireframes for this application to adminconfiguration. Your goal is to create the work flow and user experience of the system configuration application to enable the following:
- It will provide a GUI (web based) interface and methodology so that a user can do the configuration without any need for knowledge of the scripts. There would be such an interface per configuration system. We can refer to each such set of screens per system as a tool.
- It will provide the ability to audit and trace changes in the configuration for any system.
- It will provide the ability to manage security (both authentication and authorization) of the configuration system.
- It will provide the main page to let business user navigate to all the available systems and perform actions to manage them
You will be provided conceptualization documentation.
Entries must be your original work, and must not infringe on the copyright or licenses of others. Stock art, clip art, templates and other design elements from other
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