Understand the true cost of developing software update automation

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To understand the cost of building of an end-to-end software update system, the calculator has split into 5 short parts.

Gathering Requirements
Design & Development
Deploy & Support
Experience Level
Analysis

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Project Planning

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Document Use Cases

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Finalize User Experience

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Data Model

Product catalog

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Update/Messages

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Admin data model

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Back Office Major Functions

Reporting Tool

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API Build Tool

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Localization

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Entitlement Check

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Back Office Interfaces & Services

Admin Portal

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API's

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Security

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API/Client

Downloader client

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Telemetry/Payload

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Service Platform - Design and Deploy (Monthly Cost)

Web serversTransaction DatabaseApplication ServerReporting databaseHigh AvailabilitySubtotal

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Documentation

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Person Months per area

RequirementsTechnical Design & EngineeringClient APIDocumentationProject ManagementTotal Man-MonthsTotal Man-Years

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Initial Development Cost

Backoffice initial developmentClient API CostTotal Initial Cost

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Ongoing Annual Costs

Ongoing Backoffice/yrOngoing API/Client/yrTotal Annual Cost

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3 Year Cost

Licensing BackofficeAPI/ClientTotal 3Y Project Cost

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Gathering Requirements

General Requirements:
1. Deliver proactive software updates
2. Deliver proactive software messages directly to end users
3. Enable testing of Software updates before they are actually distributed
4. Collect and report installed base information
5. Send updates & messages only to customers who are entitled
6. Send targeted updates & messages
7. Customize the look & feel of update content
8. Allow collecting custom telemetry data from the clients
Integration Requirements
1. Provide a zero code integration approach to deliver automatic software updates & messages
2. Make integration easier with a built-in API code builder
3. Updates should be completely API driven
4. Fully platform independent and API driven software update solution
5. Easily integrate with other systems in the eco-system
6. Allow support for JSON/XML
End User Requirements
1. Make the update process fully automatic and transparent to the end user
2. Must support all languages (Internationalization) for the content
3. Only let users see messages & updates that apply to them
4. Provide an update experience that is tailored to the end user
5. User have control over when the updates are applied
6. Allow end users to ignore updates & messages
7. Display the user interface in the user’s language
Implementation Requirements:
1. Client:
  1. Allow applications to silently check for updates
  2. Allow applications to handle proxy servers
  3. Verify integrity of the update before applying
  4. Check for updates/messages in a system tray
  5. Allow registration of multiple products
  6. Allow managing updates on multiple products at once
2. Service:
  1. Must be highly scalable and highly available with a 99.99% SLA
  2. Service should product management to add/update updates at all times
  3. Allow admin user to configure custom rules & logic to deliver product updates & messages
  4. Allow a relationship to be created between Products & Updates & Messages
  5. Allow to specifying a custom download link when configuring an Update
  6. Allow sending a custom command line instructions to execute an update when installing the update
  7. Allow admin to specify the OS or system architecture or any other custom filter that apply to an update
  8. Allow admin to view and report on installed based information
  9. View a list of all clients with a geographical representation.
  10. Get detailed information about a specific client
  11. Allow access based on user permissions
  12. Test updates before publishing
  13. Make clearly written documentation available for product groups
Other requirements
1. Diverse team of experienced developers
2. Fully automated QA & DevOps process
3. Continuous improvements to cater to changing business needs

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