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       the system. After conducting the evaluation,      can  differ  from  company  to  company.  The
       it  was  able  to  identify  some  frequent       manual  process  does  not  need  an  internet
       problems arisen among the users. In the table     access.  But  designed  system  needs  internet
       below, the art of problems and the solutions      access  in  order  to  run.  E-mails  can  be
       applied have been listed (Table 1).               delayed  because  of  various  unknown

          Table 1: State of art of problems and          reasons.  The  requests  sent  will  not  be
                        solutions                        received  by  the  insurance  companies  on
                                                         time. Therefore, the feed-backs may not be
        Problem             Solution                     received.  The  process  needs  the  good
                                                         relationship  between  broker  and  the
        Font visibility is                               insurance  companies  as  well  as  good faith.
        not in satisfactory  Increase the font size      By  using  this  system,  communication
        level                                            between these two parties can be limited.

        When feedback       Setting up the                      Insurance companies need to pay too
        attachment name     attachments name as          much  attention  for  receiving  E-mails
        is quiet long, the   “Download” for each         separately  from  other  E-mails.  If  minimum
        page alignments     file under relevant          requirements  of  the  system  are  not  met  in
        will disorder       insurance company.           the available machines which are used in the
                                                         broker company, then a new set of machines
                            Displayed a red
        Attachment size     color message,               must  be  purchased.  That  may  be  an
        could not exceed    informing                    additional expense to the broker company.
        2 Mb                attachment could not         4.4 Boundaries
                            exceed 2 Mb
                                                             The system needs to have a ‘Windows’
       4.2 Strength                                      environment  to  implement  in  a  server  or  a

          The  designed  system  empowers  the           cloud.  Therefore,  it  is  not  totally  platform
       insurance  brokers  daily  process  by  saving    independence. If we want to implement in a
       time,  money  and  the  effort.  The  manual      different  environment,  then  third-party
                                                         software must be used. It may be cost extra
       process has to deal with a number of phone        money.
       calls  to  get  the  quotation  from  various
       companies.  But  the  new  system  will  send         The    system   needs    the   minimal
       that  information  to  several  companies  at     requirements  which  were  mentioned  in
       once  via  E-mails.  The  system  sends  a        above.  Also,  recommended  configurations
       request  to  several  insurance  companies  at    can be helpful to run the system without any
                                                         disturbances.
       once.  Therefore,  insurance  brokers  do  not
       want  to  contact  each  and  every  insurance        The  Internet  access  is  essential  for  the
       company  to  get  the  quotations.  Also,  the    system.   Because    if   the   system    is
       insurance  brokers’  phone  bills  can  be        implemented in a cloud, internet access is a
       reduced  by  sending  E-mails  through  the       must and the E-mail sending process needs
                                                         an internet access too.
       system.
                                                         4.5 Recommendations
       4.3 Weaknesses
                                                             Each feedback table has two columns to
          The user/client cannot get the quotation       get the user respond and the client respond.
       values in an instance. To perform the task,       When  the  developer  develops,  the  client
       calculation  formulas  are  needed  for  the      receiving  feedback  form,  the  user  respond
       system  for  each  insurance  company.  But       value must be updated as 1. Also, the user
       those  kinds  of  formulas  are  restricted  to   feed-back responses must be checked at the
       outside.  Also,  those  calculating  techniques   page  loader  when  loading  each  insurance




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