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Group members
Group 5
| Group Member |
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| Fahad Rezwanul Islam |
| Yongyi Wu |
| Markku Painomaa |
| Isto Sipilä |
Idea
In the Otso Case CodeCamp project the main idea was to build an Insurance Selling application that will run on Windows 8.1 mobile device. The business requirement was to enable sales force to sell and market insurance product to customer in location independent place, and make the selling process more interactive and introduce higher customer involvement. Therefore, with a quick but through brainstorming our team came with an application idea, that not only will make selling process fast but also make the selling fun. SureApp is a mobile insurance sales tool, primarily being designed to help insurance sales force to have interactive one-to-one product selling and marketing.The App is developed on Windows 8.1 platform, using C# and XAML. The basic idea is to fast selling of insurance product and increase customer involvement. That suggest the insurance selling process to be more fun and interesting for the both sales and customer end.
Prototype:SureApp Prototype
Motivation
One of the basic challenges is to sell customer rather complicated and virtual product in an open and outdoor environment. Expressing the minimum information to attract a customer is also a key to achieve sales success. SureApp is designed to eliminate those challenges by understanding customer's perception and desire. Hence, the most important idea of an offer will be presented by obtaining minimum amount of information input in the system. However, interested customers will also get on spot application possibility.
Another of our motivation was to get a better grip on C# programming together with interface designing with XAML. That is a very interesting blend of coding for Windows programming, moreover this challenging idea of the codecamp was the right place to practice such opportunity, where it was a real life problem solving scenario.
Use Case of the project scenario
Here is the basic use case diagram of our application, this represents the seller-customer interaction during the application usage phase. It begins with seller and customer interaction before the sales starts by seller asking the customer about the preferred option which includes a quick approach - where customer will provide the salesman with inputs to reserve an appointment when the salesman will communicate with the customer about the insurance. Detailed Approach - includes a seller-customer interaction where seller will offer the customer with playing a game to gain a discount, however that is optional. Then the customer will provide seller with information about the his object to get estimation. After that still if he wants to proceed for application the seller will collect further inputs to for the insurance application.
Development Platform and Language
The development of the SureApp has been done on Windows 8.1. Programming languages that has been used are:
- C# - it’s simple, powerful, type-safe, and object-oriented. Visual C# is modern, high-level, multi-paradigm, general-purpose programming language.
- XAML - Extensible Application Markup Language, pronounced “zammel”, is an XML-based markup language developed by Microsoft. XAML is the language behind the visual presentation of a Web page.
The tools that has been used to develop the application are Visual Studio 2013 and Visual Studio Blend for perfection of the user interface.