Sunday, October 2, 2011

BoarDome - David Buiter MIS 204

Instant Messaging services
Twitter is a social networking tool that allows it's users to post up to 140 characters of whatever they wish to share with their followers. Businesses use this networking tool to stay up-to-date with other individuals which they follow or are followed by. The networking tool has been used in the past to conjugate protests and is a good way to make television more interactive, thereby creating a gateway of opportunities for the company. BoarDome should use this networking tool as it is not only free to some degree but a great way to have direct communication with it's important clients.


Cloud Computing
BoarDome will be able to increase their efficiency with the addition of Cloud-computing. This form of computing offers a fast on-demand network acces which allows the user to access shared computing resources. Along with the quick access, it can be performed with minimal effort or service provider interaction. Service models such as the software, platform and infrastructure models will need to be installed in order to allow this form of computing to operate.

Cloud-computing comes in two forms, private and public offering a form of computing for either the client of the service provider. The business will be able to put strategic methods such as viability, scalability and support policies into effect. These can also raise issues within the business that can be discussed and overcome. Along with the positives of cloud-computing, a few technical issues may arise such as compliance rules, privacy, openness and security. Privacy and security are to be highlighted as these two are both important to the client and the service provider and should be put as highly important issues to deal with. We can cover the issues in a service level agreement.

Cloud-computing comes with it's own applications such as grid and edge computing as well as the convergence of computing and telecommunications. All offering there positive, grid computing offering the capacity to solve large scale computing problems, edge computing offering increased web application performance and communication advantages such as voice over IP (VoIP) and videoconferencing over IP which lye under 'Convergence of computing and telecommunications'.

Overall BoarDome will be an improved organisation with an organized database and an improved computing system.



Website evaluation
What i believed to be key for a successful website was the presentation of the website. The websites maintained the level of 'coolness' by presenting ambassadors which were all very well observed and acknowledged athletes or media icons. The combination of icons and colourfulness attracted a lot of my friends and colleagues  when we investigated the websites, as big fashion freaks we admired the organization of the websites and the usefulness they made available to us. Each website had it's own layout and each website put good use to the e-commerce aspect of the business model. I believe Boardome should hire a creative individual to produce a website that stands-out to the public by offering various forms of attraction, witht his the company have a way of catching up the opposing companies.




Excel Assignment - Videos



I used several formulas in the assignment, calculating the averages and totals. Such as AVE, SUM, MAX, MIN. Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program, which allows you to enter numerical values or data into rows or columns of a spreadsheet. You can then use these numerical entries for such things as calculations, graphs, and statistical analysis. A company such as BoarDome can use Microsoft excel to format data, analyse it and project it to their investors, creditors or any important individuals which have any connection to the companies business plan and it's intentions and goals. Its columns and rows are labeled such as B2 in a spreadsheet. The row labels are numbers and the column labels are letters. The first cell, therefore, is called A1. One row down and one column over, the cell is called B2, and so forth. From this assignment, cell referencing was included, using the spreadsheet program Microsoft Excel, I could reference the value stored in a single cell by entering it's co-ordinates as a function argument. By using the program there are several different forms of referencing. I learned about formatting in the assignment, to highlight particular pieces of data I used conditional formatting. This helped improve the spreadsheet, which we could use with BoarDome. From the data, I learned how to create a chart, I knew how to create certain charts but I the video I picked up some pointers on how to edit a chart and improve the presentation of the chart by including titles, and labels.




Chapter 6 Assignment


  Using a search engine, enter the key word “data warehousing.” Who are the large vendors in this industry? What type of solutions do they offer to their clients? Do you see any common trend in data warehousing? Blog about what you find.


Some of the large vendors in this industry are: Oracle, IBM, Netezza, Teradata and Microsoft.
IBM, for example offers the info-sphere warehouse as 'the most comprehensive data solution in the industry'. Oracle on the other hand offers it's customers a system called 'Exadata' which they, being the leading data warhouse organization, consider to be incredibly effective.


I see a few common trends in the data warehousing industry, they are always like all industries trying to create a new product, they all seem to optimize and perform incredibly well, another would be that they are all or most of them are using open-source, DBMS to deploy data-warehouse's, experimentally and with more formalized approaches. 




Excel Project (chapter 6)


I made a change to the sales-expenses tab by adding 3 zero's to the quarterly sales in the 4 categories, accessories, skateboards, surfboards and snowboards. 
These errors arise from the long periods of time calculating them, by using information systems in greater quantities the organization can produce more accurate figures without having the humane margin for error, a human being can only process so much and with the most recent demonstration of error it is clear that we need to expose the company to more of it.
 An information system such as (OLAP) online analytical processing which is a analysis system handles complex, multidimensional analyses of data beyond the realms of simple. The system would be able to calculate the measures and dimensions, presenting the data in cubes, slices and dicing.





Microsoft Access


This week from access I was exposed to a new kind of soft ware which helped individuals such as myself organize data by at the same time keeping it linked. The program relies on tables and forms which help organize the information on clients and businesses linked to your own business or organization.
It is used as a program to help organize your business, reducing the paperwork to be maintained and allowing your organization or business to operate on a larger level. It allows you to add to what you already have and makes it easy to find certain contacts or piece of information for which you are looking for.

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