Tale of Two Airlines: Case Study In the Tale of Two Airlines case study, Professor McPherson discussed how two different airlines handled passenger travel, and in this case, booking issues caused by weather coupled with mechanical problems which contributed to flight delays. The initial delay began when an airline arrived late to Hartsfield Airport in Atlanta, the busiest airport in the country. Professor McPherson was able to make it to the gate for his connecting flight to London, with what he
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Data: Raw material Data collection costs money Collect only necessary and sufficient data Data is generally used by machines Data is useless unless it is process to create information Information: Processed data Data process by machines giving information Information is used to run an organization efficiently Information used by managers to initiate actions TYPES OF INFORMATION Operational Information - used to day to day operations Example information needed by a shopkeeper: Daily sales account
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Task 1 Answer to Discussion Question: * How is a data warehouse different from a database? Ans : Data Warehouse 1. Used for Online Analytical Processing (OLAP). This reads the historical data for the Users for business decisions. 2. The Tables and joins are simple since they are de-normalized. This is done to reduce the response time for analytical queries. 3. Data – Modelling techniques are used for the Data Warehouse design. 4. Optimized for read operations. 5. High performance
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IT FOR BUSINESS GROUP ASSIGNMENT PREPARED BY : Erlinda ( 00000011304) Evelyn Michael (00000011339) CLASS: M6 DATE OF SUBMISSION : 26 March 2015 Bank Mandiri was formed on 2 October 1998, as a part of the Government of Indonesia’s bank restructuring program. In July 1999, four state-owned banks-Bank Bumi Daya, Bank Dagang Negara, Bank Exim and Bapindo-were amalgamated into Bank Mandiri. The history of these four banks can be traced back over 150 years, and together they encapsulate
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CASE #2: CATERPILLAR TUNNELING Functional Business Systems – Overview Each system is different from one another and every system has its pros and cons. An individual business exists in an environment and a business organization is a component within a system. For businesses to survive, the function of the degree in which businesses thrive sync with the environment. Business Intelligence is a set of methodologies, processes, architectures, and technologies that transform raw data into meaningful
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Implementation of a Data Warehouse Prototype for the University of Nairobi within the Context of Relational Online Analytical Processing (Data Analysis) PRESENTED BY: 1. JORAM KIPLIMO D61/68960/2013 0724431978 . PRESENTED TO: Dr. Muranga Njihia Word count: 2752 ABSTRACT Data ware housing is a booming industry with many interesting research problem. The data warehouse is concentrated on only few aspects. The discussion here is about the data warehouse design and
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University of Mumbai B.E Information Technology Scheme of Instruction and Evaluation Third Year -Semester VI Scheme of Instructions Sr. Subjects Lect/ No 1 Information and Network Security Middleware and Enterprise Integration Technologies Software Engineering Data Base Technologies Programming for Mobile and Remote Computers Information Technology for Management of Enterprise TOTAL Week 4 Scheme of Examinations Theory T/W Practical Oral Total Hours Marks Marks Marks Marks Marks 3 100 25 -25 150
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1. Explain how Ben & Jerry’s is using business intelligence tools to remain successful and competitive in a saturated market. -Ben & Jerry’s is using BI software to track the ingredients and the life of each pint they sell. Their BI software can track anything from what supplier’s milk was used in making a certain pint to where the cherries used in the Cherry Garcia pint came from. The BI software helps Ben & Jerry’s “access, analyze, and act on customer information collected by the sales, finance
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Why Study Business Research? Business Research is system that helps you analyze and disseminate information such ad data and insights for decision making. This process will help actions to maximize their performance in different scenarios. ROI stands for return on investment and doing business research will help you increase to the contribution of this return. There are different factors that will want you to have an interest in reseach methods, they relate to technology, business competition, government
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data considered increases the number of aggregations can quickly total tens of millions or more. The second terminology that I research was Data Warehouse and Data Mart. Data Warehouse and Data Mart is corporate memory. Let's take this other terminology and break it in two part; one Data Warehouse and the second one Data Mart. Starting by Data Warehouse, academics will say it is a subject oriented, point-in-time, inquiry only collection of operational data. And what this means is the typical relational
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