1. Introduction
This is a report for a retail second- hand car organisation. The report will include how this organisation should store their business data, either in a spreadsheet or in a database. There are a lot of advantages and disadvantages with the two alternatives, and both of the alternatives will be considered. The report will give the manager of this organisation a recommendation for this proposed situation. In the outline design part of the report, the data regarding the customers, the suppliers, the products and sales will be included in a proposed option, either in a spreadsheet or in a database.
2. Assessment & Discussion
In the section “Assessment of Spreadsheet and Database Alternatives” will we describe the advantages and disadvantages with using either spreadsheet or database with storing data. In this section it will also be argued for and against for the reasons on the benefits and limitations of the alternatives.
In the next section, “Recommendation to the Manager” will we come with a solid recommendation for the manager of using either spreadsheet or database to store their business data.
In the last section “Outline Design” will it be illustrated a possible design for the selected option, either spreadsheet or database. Examples of data regarding the customers, the suppliers and the products will be included in this section.
2.1. Part 1 - Assessment of Spreadsheet and Database Alternatives
There are a lot of advantages and disadvantages of
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The improved spreadsheets were inserted in the system with new datasets on testing basis for storing the patrons and organizations data that could be used for segmentation and decision making. Two team members were given the responsibility of transferring the old data of patrons into the system. I was assisting the team leader in reporting, tracking, fixing and retesting the defects in the system. It continued for a period of more than a week till the data management system reached the quality standards to reduce data redundancy to the minimum. The data backup and security measures were also monitored during this
Data management is vital to any business as this is a key tool to an organisations business improvement, as you can refer back to data, and compare them against benchmarks. Analysing data can provide evidence for possible future structure such as identify trends, as well as indicate where improvements can be made. However there are strict procedures to be followed when collecting and storing data.
Database tools and technologies affected the business processes and decision making by a great extent. The most important benefit of the database is to change unstructured information into structured information, and allow users to analysis the data stored into different tables with the help of queries. Before database, all the information used to stored into paper and other unstructured computer programs, due to which getting required information process was very slow. Due to database, all the
* Describe the role of databases and database management systems in managing organizational data and information.
You understand that database technology can dramatically improve your ability to analyze information, compared to spreadsheet technology, and assist you in developing your strategic plans for the cafe. To help you familiarize yourself with databases and their associated business value you need to create a report detailing the basics of databases and why they are better for running a business than spreadsheet applications. Be sure to provide a detailed explanation of relational databases along with their associated business advantages.
3. What would you recommend as effective methods for this organisation to store the data, and why? (Give two different options)
It is vital for easy drive to have an accurate and reliable data, across all of its business processes in order to provide an excellent car rental experience to its customers. Thus, a detail list of business data and normalisation procedure is required to model the company’s data.
The database used should be open and industry standard to allow easy integration with other applications and easy movement of data in the future. The database
Use this section to identify the design documents that have been developed and summarizes the overall solution design in a succinct statement. Also, define why each of these design documents is necessary for the project.
This paper will compare and contrast five different database management systems on six criteria. The database management systems (DBMS) that will be discussed are SQL Server 2000, Access, MySQL, DB2, and Oracle. The criteria that will be compared are the systems’ functionality, the requirements that must be met to run the DBMS, the expansion capabilities – if it is able to expand to handle more data over time, the types of companies that typically use each one, the normal usage of the DBMS, and the costs associated with implementing the DBMS.
d. Did the users have enough skills to operate the system? e. Where and how would the asset register be kept and updated? 1.6 JUSTIFICATION OF THE STUDY. The proposed study was recommended as it was of paramount importance to organizations which had accepted and undertook the information technology era into their businesses to have good and reliable ITAMS. The previous excel spreadsheets which were used in recording assets were highly prone to errors and presented a lot of paperwork, which required large storage space, and thus inappropriate and inefficient for the organization to achieve optimum performance.
1. Utilize Web technology that allows customers select features with custom design options. (S1, O2)
Databases allow us to easily store and retrieve data in a purely digital format. The strength of this is that large amounts of data can be stored and retrieved with minimal effort on the part of the user. Opposed to manually flipping through files, one can quickly pull up the requested data through a computer program. Many systems that were conventionally paper and file based have been converted to a digital format which are now stored in one or more databases.
Silvaro Motors, a car dealership company, have four dealerships serving a metropolitan area of roughly two and a half million people with the latest dealership selling multiple makes of cars at the same location which includes a line of Daewoo’s from Korea, Mahindra’s from India and Chery’s from China (Waight 2015, p.2). The other three dealerships focus on three separate cars at each dealership (following an autonomous operation) which include Mitsubishi, Mazda and Hyundai (Waight 2015, p.2). The company gained immense strength and reputation from the three dealerships and prides itself on three success factors or policies namely volume, “hassle-free buying experience” and after sales service (Waight 2015, p.2). But, the new dealership complicated the issues of inventory management as it had to deal with three cars at the same dealership and balancing the stock was proving to be difficult and issues related to purchasing function and management of service parts, accessories and materials both at a supply chain level and as an internal function along with the lack of storage and financial resources added further pressures on the company (Waight 2015, p.2).