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2 If business data is scattered throughout the enterprise and not synched until the end of
the month, how does that impact day-to-day decision making and planning?
If the business data is not synched until the end of each month, following will be
the challenges for a business:
Getting an accurate daily or weekly inventory report will not be possible which
can lead to inaccurate new stock orders. The firm might lose business in case it
runs out of something due to an inaccurate inventory which translates to a
stock order.
The business will not be able to offer something new to the customers based
on last fortnights or weeks sale.
Power savings.
1) Visit Rackspace.com and review the companys three types of cloud products. Describe
each of those cloud solutions.
Rackspace.com offers following three types of cloud products:
1. Cloud powered by VMware vCloud:
This is a proven technology and most firms out in the market are using
VMware for Cloud and Virtualization in their IT solutions already. By using this
technology firms can get a superior control on their environment. Common
uses are:
Light weight applications like Web tier applications (LAMP stack, IIS +
SQL Server) can be hosted.
Disaster recovery.
Big Data
SaaS
Rich media
Light weight applications like Web tier applications (LAMP stack, IIS +
SQL Server) can be hosted.
Case
Video Case: Cloud Computing: Three Case Studies
1) Explain the value or benefits of each organizations cloud investment.
Benefits with Software as a Service Cloud investment:
1. Low Costs:
SaaS Clouds usually reside in a shared or multitenant environment where
the hardware and software license costs are low compared with the traditional
model. Reduced maintenance cost since the provider (here Google) owns the
environment.
2. Scalability:
Capacity planning will be easier. SaaS provider usually will take care of it
once additional requirement specifics are provided.
3. Patching and upgrading:
Reduced time and resources needed to perform patching and upgrading as
the provider will own and take care of these.
List three types of waste or damages that data errors can cause.
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and
hinders
future
3)
1) View the Edgenet Gain Real time Access to Retail Product Data with In-Memory
Technology video on YouTube. Explain the benefit of in-memory technology.
The main advantage will be enhanced performance. The Video talks about SQL
Server,
so reading data directly from and writing data directly to memory is faster
than manipulating data on a disk or on a flash drive. This is as long as the entire data
fits in memory.
Case
Video Case: Hertz Finds Gold in Integrated Data
1) Describe Hertzs new strategy and data solution
To scale with their complex and competitive business Hertz implemented following:
Avoiding one size fits all mentality and avoiding mass communications which
involve same emails. Instead, they used the customer data that was available by
Integrating and standardizing to communicate messages that are relevant
specifically to them.
2)
Customer specific communication messages via email based on the data they
have from customer data Standardization and Integration. A drivers license
expiry alert is certainly a useful alert for any customer.
Confirmation sends the customer a text or an email which has the details of the
stall where the car is parked. This makes things easier and faster for the
customer who is picking up a vehicle.
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