Dell Software Solution Innovation Challenge 2009

Entry Requirement

  1. All students who are currently developing software related Final Year Project in Faculty of IT and Faculty of Information Science & Technology (Malacca Campus).
  2. Students will compete as a group of up to 4 people.

Prizes

Top 3
1st placing: RM 500
2nd placing: RM 400
3rd placing: RM 300

Merit
Most Innovative - RM 300
Technical merit - RM 100
Best Communicated – RM 100
Dell Strategic Solution Award - RM 300

Total value in prize: RM 2000

NOTE: ALL contestants will be granted a Certification of Participation!

Important Dates
10th May 2009    Submission of 5-minutes video
18th May 2009    Announcement of 10 qualifying teams to Round 2.
15th June 2009    Round 2 Presentation

Selection Process

Round 1

  • Preliminary judging stage
  • Submission: A 5-minutes video concerning your project.
  • Video’s content: Includes
    • description of their project,
    • motivations for doing the project, and
    • screenshots of the code behind their system.
  • Submission Website: To Be Announced.
  • Deadline for submission : 10th May 2009
  • Scope: Software development best practices, Software quality assurance, IT security and compliance, Data mining, Networking, Infrastructure monitoring, IT Process & Methodology Improvement, IT Optimization Tools.
  • Technology: Open to any platforms of technology
  • Date to announce teams which are qualified for Round 2 : 18th May 2009
Round 2
  • Date for Round 2 presentation: 15th June 2009. Teams who fail to present in Round 2 will forfeit their participation.
  • The top ten teams from Round 1 vie for the prizes.
  • Participants from MDec-Dell USP 2.0 progamme will automatically enter this round
  • Each team will do a 15 minute presentation, followed by a 5 minute Q and A
  • Teams will be judged on technical difficulty, business viability as well as innovation and creativity (refer the judging schemes below).

Judging Scheme:

Round 1

  • Presentation 25%
  • Creativity and Innovation 25%
  • Problem & Solution viability– 30%
  • Commercial Implementation 20%
Round 2
  • Presentation 10%
  • Creative and Innovation 25%
  • Question handling 15%
  • Solution Design – 50%

    Suggested design components:
    • 1. Architectural framework 10%
    • 2. Data design 10%
    • 3. User interface 10%
    • 4. Procedural/Functional 10%
    • 5. Security 10%
    • 6. Advanced software design - usage of design patterns, refactoring, etc - bonus marks up to 5% , so long as the 50% marks for Solution Design is not exceeded.

For more information, please contact Mr. Peter Ho & Mr. Ooi Wen Fong.