Before having children Emily Plunkett had had two very different careers, one that she was
extremely good at and one that she absolutely loved. Emily was very good at advertising and
selling goods and services but her favourite occupation was organising weddings. In 2010,
facing the future as a single parent she decided to see if she could combine her two careers
and set up a business that could provide all the items needed to cater for small or large
celebrations. Emily’s idea proved so popular that she received many requests to form a cooperative that would provide a common national web platform to promote and provide
advice on organising events and offer all types of equipment and furnishings.
Emily enlisted the help of a local web developer Liam to build a platform for Australian
Event Planning Co-operative (AEPC). Liam did a great job and Emily was very pleased with
the new AEPC website. It was intuitive to navigate and provided plenty of information to
which the co-operative members could contribute. Emily was extremely pleased when
organisations from all over Australia asked to join the co-operative. However as the number
of members of the co-operative grew, customers and supply organisation owners noticed
data anomalies occurring and an increase in information retrieval time. Additionally order
information went missing and there were some difficulties in entering new information