Research paper 7

This week’s written activity is a three- part activity. You will respond to three separate prompts but prepare the paper as one research paper. Be sure to include at least one library source per prompt, in addition to your textbook (which means you’ll have at least 4 sources cited). 

1) Start your paper with an introductory paragraph.

2) Prompt 1 “Data Warehouse Architecture” (2-3 pages): Explain the major components of a data warehouse architecture, including the various forms of data transformations needed to prepare data for a data warehouse. Also, describe in your own words current key trends in data warehousing. 

3) Prompt 2 “Big Data” (2-3 pages): Describe your understanding of big data and give an example of how you’ve seen big data used either personally or professionally. In your view, what demands is big data placing on organizations and data management technology? 

4) Prompt 3 “Green Computing” (2-3 pages):  One of our topics in Chapter 13 surrounds IT Green Computing. The need for green computing is becoming more obvious considering the amount of power needed to drive our computers, servers, routers, switches, and data centers. Discuss ways in which organizations can make their data centers “green”. In your discussion, find an example of an organization that has already implemented IT green computing strategies successfully. Discuss that organization and share your link. You can find examples in the UC Library.

5) Conclude your paper with a detailed conclusion section. 

The paper needs to be approximately 7-10 pages long, including both a title page and a references page (for a total of 9-12 pages). Be sure to use proper APA formatting and citations to avoid plagiarism.

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

• Be approximately seven to ten pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page.

• Follow APA7 guidelines. Your paper should include an introduction, a body with fully developed content, and a conclusion.

• Support your answers with the readings from the course, the course textbook, and at least three scholarly journal articles to support your positions, claims, and observations, in addition to your textbook. The UC Library is a great place to find supplemental resources.

• Be clearly and well-written, concise, and logical, using excellent grammar and style techniques. You are being graded in part on the quality of your writing.

NO plagiarism at any cost. 

Due on Thursday (10/08/2020)

Course textbook:

Title: Managing and Using Information Systems

ISBN: 9781119560562

Authors: Keri E. Pearlson, Carol S. Saunders, Dennis F. Galletta

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Publication Date: 2019-12-05

Assignemnt

 

Why is it important for business strategy to drive organizational strategy and IS strategy? What might happen if the business strategy was not the driver?

Please make your initial post and two response posts substantive. A substantive post will do at least two of the following:

  • Ask an interesting, thoughtful question pertaining to the topic
  • Answer a question (in detail) posted by another student or the instructor
  • Provide extensive additional information on the topic
  • Explain, define, or analyze the topic in detail
  • Share an applicable personal experience
  • Provide an outside source (for example, an article from the UC Library) that applies to the topic, along with additional information about the topic or the source (please cite properly in APA)
  • Make an argument concerning the topic.

At least one scholarly source should be used in the initial discussion thread. Be sure to use information from your readings and other sources from the UC Library. Use proper citations and references in your post.

MA GD3

Master Budget:

You have just been hired as a new management trainee by Earrings Unlimited, a distributor of earrings to various retail outlets located in shopping malls across the country. In the past, the company has done very little in the way of budgeting and at certain times of the year has experienced a shortage of cash. Since you are well trained in budgeting, you have decided to prepare a master budget for the upcoming second quarter. To this end, you have worked with accounting and other areas to gather the information assembled below. 

The company sells many styles of earrings, but all are sold for the same price—$13 per pair. Actual sales of earrings for the last three months and budgeted sales for the next six months follow (in pairs of earrings): 

January (actual)           20,600                                June (budget)                    50,600 

February (actual)         26,600                                July (budget)                      30,600 

March (actual)             40,600                                 August (budget)                 28,600 

April (budget)               65,600                                September (budget)           25,600 

May (budget)             100,600 

The concentration of sales before and during May is due to Mother’s Day. Sufficient inventory should be on hand at the end of each month to supply 40% of the earrings sold in the following month. 

Suppliers are paid $4.30 for a pair of earrings. One-half of a month’s purchases is paid for in the month of purchase; the other half is paid for in the following month. All sales are on credit. Only 20% of a month’s sales are collected in the month of sale. An additional 70% is collected in the following month, and the remaining 10% is collected in the second month following sale. Bad debts have been negligible.

Monthly operating expenses for the company are given below: 

Variable: 

Sales commissions            4% of sales 

Fixed: 

Advertising                         $ 230,000 

Rent                                   $   21,000 

Salaries                              $ 112,000 

Utilities                               $     8,500 

Insurance                           $     3,300 

Depreciation                       $   17,000 

Insurance is paid on an annual basis, in November of each year. 

The company plans to purchase $17,500 in new equipment during May and $43,000 in new equipment during June; both purchases will be for cash. The company declares dividends of $17,250 each quarter, payable in the first month of the following quarter. 

The company’s balance sheet as of March 31 is given below: 

Assets:

Cash                                                                                                                   $    77,000 

Accounts receivable ($34,580 February sales; $422,240 March sales)                 456,820 

Inventory                                                                                                                  112,832 

Prepaid insurance                                                                                                      22,500 

Property and equipment (net)                                                                                  980,000 

                                                                                                                           ————————

Total assets                                                                                                          $  1,649,152 

                                                                                                                           ————————-

Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity 

Accounts payable                                                                                                    $ 103,000 

Dividends payable                                                                                                        17,250 

Common stock                                                                                                            860,000 

Retained earnings                                                                                                       668,902 

                                                                                                                               ———————-

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity                                                                   $ 1,649,152 

                                                                                                                              ————————

The company maintains a minimum cash balance of $53,000. All borrowing is done at the beginning of a month; any repayments are made at the end of a month. 

The company has an agreement with a bank that allows the company to borrow in increments of $1,000 at the beginning of each month. The interest rate on these loans is 1% per month and for simplicity we will assume that interest is not compounded. At the end of the quarter, the company would pay the bank all of the accumulated interest on the loan and as much of the loan as possible (in increments of $1,000), while still retaining at least $53,000 in cash.

Required: 

Prepare a master budget for the three-month period ending June 30. Include the following detailed schedules: 

1. a. A sales budget, by month and in total. 

    b. A schedule of expected cash collections, by month and in total.  

    c. A merchandise purchases budget in units and in dollars. Show the budget by month and in total. 

    d. A schedule of expected cash disbursements for merchandise purchases, by month and in total. 

2. A cash budget. Show the budget by month and in total. Determine any borrowing that would be needed to maintain the minimum cash balance of $53,000. 

3. A budgeted income statement for the three-month period ending June 30. Use the contribution        approach. 

4. A budgeted balance sheet as of June 30. 

Rewrite the programming example in chapter 4. (Cable company BILLING.)

1. Write a pseudo code before starting your program (you may not use SWITCH, replace it with IF structures)

1.1 Draw a flow chart for your program based on your pseudo code 
2. Identify your constants
3. Your input will come from the text file of a least 15 customers
3.1 Input file format – customerType accountNumber premiumChannels
 (I.e residential example: R12345 5, business example B12345 16 8)
 residential customers 
RaccountNumber numOfPremChannels
 
Business customers
BaccountNumber numOfBasicServConn numOfpremChannels
4. Precision should be two decimal places
5. Calculate the running average for residential and business customer spending 
6. Print all customer’s bill to a single file and the end of the file you should have the average summary for each customer type.
6.1 pay attention to details when you formatting your output

Where does data analysis begin?

 The collection of data is not the onset of data analysis projects. A data analysis project begins with a purpose, problem, and research questions.

Find one scholarly research paper with an excellent example of:

  • Problem statement
  • Research questions

The example shall relate to a practical, real-world work environment in the information technology field. After finding the research, discuss the following:

  • What makes this example excellent in the topics that initiate a data analysis project?
  • What relates this example to a practical, real-world work environment in the information technology field?
  • Do the research questions meet the criteria defined in the lecture in week one?
  • What is the generalizability of this research?

Data Mining Project

Assignment:
Provide a reflection of at least 500 words (or 2 pages double spaced) of how the knowledge, skills, or theories of this course have been applied, or could be applied, in a practical manner to your current work environment. If you are not currently working, share times when you have or could observe these theories and knowledge could be applied to an employment opportunity in your field of study. 

Requirements:

Provide a 500 word (or 2 pages double spaced) minimum reflection.

Use of proper APA formatting and citations. If supporting evidence from outside resources is used those must be properly cited.

Share a personal connection that identifies specific knowledge and theories from this course.

Demonstrate a connection to your current work environment. If you are not employed, demonstrate a connection to your desired work environment. 

You should NOT, provide an overview of the assignments assigned in the course. The assignment asks that you reflect how the knowledge and skills obtained through meeting course objectives were applied or could be applied in the workplace. 

Discussion

Operations Security

IT Policy Compliance and Compliance Technologies

Discuss tracking, monitoring, and reporting of various compliance systems and explain the relevance of such compliance systems. 

Represent Family using Graph data structure

 

Using the below image represent this family using a graph structure. The graph needs to be a weighted graph. The weights will constitute the types of relationships, I recommend using some kind mapping between numbers and strings to represent the relationships. When adding family members to the graph, this can be done programmatically for the provided family members within the description file.

Additionally,

  • I also want there to be an interface in which a user can create a new family member and add them to the tree.
  • This can be a simple CLI where the user provides a name, gender, and age to create a person.
  • Then another simple CLI where they select which member of the family, they want the original relationship to be with and what kind of relationship it should be.
  • Finally, they can edit the family member using another CLI and selecting the family member they wish to edit, the operation they wish to perform (edit name, edit age, edit relationship), and then add new relationship between family members which can call a function that you create in order to add the original relationship.

Finally, make data assertions within the FamilyTree class that enforce certain “rules” that exist in a typical human family. An example would be a person should not have any kind of relationship to itself (a person cannot marry themselves, a person cannot be their own brother, sister, father, mother, etc.). There should be at least 3 data assertions. These should exist as part of the family tree, not as part of the graph.

As a hint, for a successful design:

I would recommend using layers of abstraction. Your graph class is the backing structure to the family tree class. Your family tree should implement methods that interface with the graph class, i.e. add_family_member() should call the constructor to create a node and then call a function within the graph class to add a node to the graph. Then using the relationships function parameter, you can add edges to the graph between the new nodes and the existing nodes. The family tree should be what enforces what relationships can exist through the data assertions, the graph does not care about what relationships are made between family members. Your functions that the user would interface with would be greatly reduced compared to the total number of methods within the classes themselves. The user should be able to add, remove, and modify family members and that’s about it. Therefore, those should be your function calls.

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