The previous ways of management such as the content management and the technology email lists are not able to satisfy the managing requirements of the Booz Allen Hamilton any more. So Smith develops the Hello platform to help manage the company. However, with times past, the company meets the question likes this: should the firm continue with the internal software development or should it move the Hello platform to a larger integrated vendor solution?
             This report gives the decision that the company should keep developing the Hello platform to make it better. What is more, the report also identifies the best way for the software development in the company. It aims about the international software development. Of course, some recommendations are provided at the end of the report to overcome the shortcomings of the internal software development.
             Booz Allen Hamilton is one of the biggest managing consulting firms in the world. In the year of 1914, it was founded in Chicago. Nowadays this company has nearly 200 branch offices and 18 thousand professional management consultants around the world. Besides, the total annual sales of this Booz Allen Hamilton have already reached about 30 billion dollars so far. What is more, this company firstly suggests the concept of the management consulting and creates many useful academic theories for the global business and the area of management, such as the theory of the product life cycle.
             As the number of the employees is growing larger and larger, staffs in this company feel isolate from the firm because most of them have worked at the client sites. Previous ways of management such as the content management and the technology email lists are not able to satisfy the managing requirements of the Booz Allen Hamilton any more (Ausubel, 1989). In the year of 2008, in order to find a more efficient and effective way to manage this company's employees, Walton Smith and his team think about the...