Feasibility report

Feasibility Report

Choosing Software for Calculating.

To:  Laboratory management

From: Jongwoo Won

May, 1st, 2016

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Subject: Feasibility report for choosing software for Calculate.

As requested by laboratory management, I have searched calculating software, and prepared a feasibility report. Management wanted to know about efficient software. I made three criteria, cost, popularity, and sharing, so that management can make rational decision. After searching software, I picked three: Matlab, Math Free On, and GNU octave.

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Introduction

Before making a machine, engineers need to simulate the machine, and before simulating the machine, engineers calculate equations, number of cases, and also draw graphs. Usually, during simulation preparation,  engineers just want to change to values or the amount of subjects in equations. Software help engineers to change the values and amount more easily.

This report has three criteria, cost, popularity, and sharing to help to make a more reasonable decision.

Criteria

Cost: This report will mention cost. Considering the cost so that management can save budget

Popularity: Because if software has great popularity, laboratory can reduce time to teach skills for software to new employees, this report will refer each software’s popularity.

Sharing: Most time, engineers do their works with individual computers, so they want to share their files often. Because of that, I picked sharing as a criterion.

Method

This report has information from reviews from blogs, and my acquaintances who are engineers. I could get reviews and instructions for built-in functions from blogs. As I was getting information, I could narrow software, and I chose three software, Matlab, MathFreeOn and GNU Octave.

 

Results

Discussion

All software have great performance. However, we want to choose one software. Each of software has different pros and cons.

-Matlab

Matlab is the most well-known, and popular software among these three programs. Many engineers from different countries don’t need to learn how to use it. Also Matlab can be used without internet. However, this is the only program in this report that costs a lot of money (over $100).

 

-Math Free On

 

This program is free to use. Upgrade is unnecessary because this program is based on internet so that they just change their software. Because this program uses internet, people can share their projects at the same time like google docs. This software can interact with matlab. However, this program cannot be used without internet.

 

-GNU Octave

This program is free to use. This program uses same coding grammar with matlab, so engineers who can use matlab can learn how to use this program more easily. This program can be used without internet. However, despite using same coding grammar, this program is a lot different from matlab, so engineers need to learn this program despite knowing how to use matlab.

 

Conclusion

Three criteria, cost, popularity, and sharing, were the most important standard in this report. In my opinion, Math Free On is the best software to use because  this program satisfies all three criteria. This program is free to use, popular, and can be shared online directly. Because of these reasons, Math Free On will be the best choice.

 

Recommendation

This report’s conclusion is that Math Free On will be the best choice. However, as I said in Discussion section, all three software have each other’s pros and cons. Especially, if we can ignore the cost, matlab will be the best choice. Matlab  is eidetic, and it has remarkable popularity. However, the laboratory can save from $100 to $500 per person by using Math Free On.