Information technology 2 $15

Your Tasks

Write a 2000-word report on alternative and complementary technologies to be used in the deployment of the database implementation from Assessment 1, in order to fully exploit the corporate data assets. Security, ethical and legal issues should also be considered.

Specifically, you should address the following technical areas:

1. Data Warehousing and the difference between operational and strategic data sets

2. Data Mining and OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) compared with OLTP Systems

3. The rise of ‘Big Data’ and its applications

4. ‘NoSQL’ databases as compared with ‘ACID-compliant’ databases

5. The impact of the ‘Open Data’ movement

Important Notes and FAQ’s

Try and incorporate good-quality diagrams into your discussion

Fully reference all sources using the Harvard notation

Each technical area carries equal weight – 20 marks each

For each technical area, cover the following points:

Describe the essential concepts involved in that technology

Explain the key advantages and benefits of that technology

Describe specific real-world applications and users of that technology

Explain any disadvantages or situations were that technology would be unsuitable