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The logistics of proposals. This chapter will help you to understand the process of writing proposals, and guide you through the steps of creating your own.
Create a mini-proposal to do a project in which you have expertise. It might be building a Website, creating a database, providing technical support for a small organization, or doing some programming.
Week 9 Assignment – Week 9 Status Report
Use the Week 9 Status Report Template [DOCX] to complete this assignment.
Your big presentation is due next week! Update your project manager with what has happened since your last report.
Include these 4 things:
*PLEASE SEE ATTACHMENT TO ANSWER QUESTION 1*
*Please see attachment #2 for template for the assignment*
Request for Proposal.docx
RFP Response Template.docxWith this fictional business in mind, compile any changes recommended by your instructor in previous weeks on a final draft of the RFP to be submitted to XYZ Technology Services.
Submit your completed assignment by following the directions linked below. Please check the Course Calendar for specific due dates.
Save your assignment as a Microsoft Word document. (Mac users, please remember to append the “.docx” extension to the filename.) The name of the file should be your first initial and last name, followed by an underscore and the name of the assignment, and an underscore and the date. An example is shown below:
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Exp19_Access_Ch03_ML2 – Investment Properties 1.2
Exp19 Access Ch03 ML2 Investment Properties 1.2
Access Chapter 3 Mid-Level 2 – Investment Properties
You are in charge of Dysan Investment ‘s database, which contains all of the information on the properties your firm has listed and sold. Your task is to determine the length of time each property was on the market before it sold. You also need to calculate the sales commission from each property sold. Two agents will receive commission on each transaction: the listing agent and the selling agent. You also need to summarize the sales data by employee and calculate the average number of days each employee ‘s sales were on the market prior to selling and the total commission earned by the employees
Start Access. Open the downloaded Access file named Exp19_Access_Ch03_ML2_Investment_Properties.accdb. Grader has automatically added your last name to the beginning of the filename.
Create a new query in Design view using all three tables. Add the following fields, in the order given: from the Agents table, add the LastName field; from the Properties table, the DateListed, DateSold, SalePrice, SellingAgent, and ListingAgent fields; and from the SubDivision table, the Subdivision field.
Add criteria to the query to ensure that the DateSold field is not empty (hint: you will need to use NULL as part of the criteria). Run the query to ensure empty fields are not displayed for the DateSold field. Return to Design view.
Format the SalePrice field as Currency. Save the query as Sales Report.
Create a calculated field in the first empty field named DaysOnMarket that will calculate the number of days each sold property was on the market when it sold. Add a caption of Days on Market.
Create another calculated field in the first empty field named ListComm that will calculate the listing agent’s commission based on the sales price and a listing commission rate of 3.5%. Add a caption of Listing Commission and format the field as Currency.
Create another calculated field in the first empty field named SellComm that will calculate the selling agent’s commission based on the sales price and a selling commission rate of 2.5%. Add a caption of Selling Commission and format the field as Currency.
Save the query and switch to Datasheet view. Add a Total row. Calculate the average number of days on the market and the sum for the SalePrice and the two commission fields. Save and close the query.
Create a copy of the Sales Report query named Sales Summary by Last Name. Switch to Design view and remove the DateListed, SellingAgent, ListingAgent, and Subdivision fields.
Display the Total row in Design view. Group by LastName and change the DateSold field Total row to Where. Show the sum of SalePrice, the average of DaysOnMarket, and the sum for both ListComm and SellComm.
Change the caption for the SalePrice field to Total Sales and format of the DaysOnMarket field as Fixed. Run the query. Adjust column widths as necessary. Adjust the Total row in the Datasheet view so it shows the sum of Total Sales. Save and close the query.
Create a copy of the Sales Summary by Last Name query named Sales Summary by Subdivision. Open the query in Design view and replace the LastName field with the Subdivision field, ensuring the Total row is set to Group By
Sort the query results so the lowest average Days on Market is first and the highest average Days on Market is last. Limit the results to the top five values
Close all database objects. Close the database and then exit Access. Submit the database as directed.
As an IT analyst for Ballot Online, a company providing voting solutions to a global client base, you are working to convince the organization to move the current infrastructure to the cloud.
Your supervisor and the director of IT, Sophia, has asked you to summarize for the company executives the potential risks and compliance issues that BallotOnline will have to contend with in the transition to the cloud.
The final report will be seven to 10 pages that convey your understanding and management of risks associated with cloud computing, as well as ensuring compliance with legal requirements involved in moving BallotOnline systems to the cloud.
Step 1: Research Risks Associated With Cloud Adoption
The first step in assessing risk in cloud computing will be to identify and describe risk concepts and cloud computing risk factors associated with cloud adoption. As a software as a service (SaaS) company considering an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud service provider for your hosting needs, consider third party outsourcing issues and the generally accepted best practices for cloud adoption and review relevant cloud risk case studies. You should also consider best practices for cloud adoption.
As part of the risk management process, identify and describe other types of risk, such as risks associated with having a service-level agreement (SLA). An example of a potential risk could be if your company is obligated to protect personal information, and then the cloud provider that you use suffers a security breach exposing that personal information.
Here, identify and describe other types of risks or potential liability issues that apply to BallotOnline.
Step 2: Identify the Most Appropriate Guidelines for Managing Risks
In order to identify guidelines applicable to your company’s industry, you must have an understanding of the different types of risk management guidelines that exist and are frequently applicable in cloud environments.
There are several cybersecurity standards applicable to cloud computing environments such as the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO standards, and US federal government standards (DoD/FIPS), as well as several major sets of risk guidelines for dealing with the risks involved. Also, there are organizations such as the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) that recommend best practices for managing risks.
Review the different guidelines and determine which are most appropriate for BallotOnline. For example, NIST has responsibility for developing a number of elections industry guidelines within the United States.
Identify why those guidelines are most appropriate and compile these items into a brief (one page or less) recommendation and justification of your choice. Your recommendation will also be incorporated into your final report in the final step.
Submit your recommendation to Sophia to review before you present your final work.
Step 3: Identify Potential Privacy Issues and Mitigation Measures
Now that you have identified the guidelines most applicable to your organization, it is time to discuss privacy protections that may apply.
BallotOnline is now a global organization and may need to contend with several sets of privacy laws since these laws vary from country to country.
Sophia has recommended that you focus on European Union (EU) privacy requirements for now, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), since those are considered to be the most challenging for compliance. Many companies opt to host data for their European customers entirely within facilities in the European Union, and the companies implement restrictions to prevent data for EU citizens from crossing borders into non-EU zones. This is the approach that you have been asked to take and where you should focus your efforts. Note that some cloud providers, such as Amazon, have received special approval from EU authorities to permit data transfer outside of the EU.
Research EU privacy requirements, identify the requirements that apply to your project, and why they apply and compile your recommendations for complying with these requirements. These will be incorporated into your final report.
Before moving on to the next step, discuss privacy issues in one page or less, and submit it separately before you submit your final work.
Step 4: Create Risk Management Matrix
Now that you have identified and described the types of risks that may apply to your organization, create a risk management matrix to assess/analyze that risk, and make recommendations for risk mitigation measures.
This Sample Risk Assessment for Cloud Computing will give you an example of a completed risk matrix.
Use the risk management matrix template to identify risks and write a brief summary explaining how to understand the data. Submit it to Sophia for feedback before you present your final work.
Step 5: Describe Cloud Security Issues
Now that you have completed the risk analysis, you can start to identify cloud and network security issues that may apply in BallotOnline’s operating environment, including data in transit vulnerabilities and multifactor authentication.
Consider cloud computing risks, network security design, information security, data classifications, and identity management issues. Your findings will be incorporated into your final report.
Discuss these security issues in one page or less, and submit it separately before you submit your final work.
Step 6: Examine the US Legal System and Intellectual Property Laws
Now that you are familiar with security issues, examine and review the US legal and justice systems. Since BallotOnline is a software as a service (SaaS) company based in the United States and serving a customer base in the United States, you need to understand how the legal and justice systems work in the United States. Your basic understanding of these systems is crucial for understanding the complexities of the legal system in cyberspace, where cloud-based systems reside.
As a practitioner working in the cloud computing field, you should also have an understanding of the complexities of intellectual property law and cyberspace law, including how to identify different venues and methods for resolving disputes (such as the court system, arbitration, mediation), how to define and negotiate cloud hosting agreements to avoid potential cyberspace law issues, how to discuss the regulation of cyberspace, and how to handle electronic agreements and digital signatures.
To gain a better understanding of how cyberspace laws are applied to real issues, participate in the analysis of a relevant legal case with your colleagues in a forum titled Discussion: US Legal System and Cyberspace Law.
In addition to the discussion board, your findings will also be incorporated into your Final Risk and Compliance Report for the BallotOnline executives.
Step 7: Use Frameworks to Analyze Complex Legal and Compliance Issues
In the previous step, you examined the US legal and justice systems as a building block for understanding the complexities of the legal system in cyberspace, where cloud-based systems reside.
There are several frameworks for analyzing compliance issues used to analyze these complex issues. To provide a manageable set of recommendations to the executives, review the frameworks and select the one that is most helpful to use for analyzing these complex issues.
Step 8: Analyze General, Industry, Geographic, Data, and Cloud-Specific Compliance Issues
In the previous step, you examined the complexities of law in cyberspace. In this step, you will expand your understanding of legal and compliance issues related to the cloud by investigating industry-specific compliance issues, geographic-specific compliance issues such as privacy, and cloud-specific compliance issues to determine which are applicable to BallotOnline.
You will also need to analyze data compliance issues applicable to companies operating in the European Union, including the recent GDPR regulations, and determine how BallotOnline can be compliant. The organization is concerned about EU compliance issues because the laws there are the most restrictive that BallotOnline will encounter.
Prepare a two- to three-page summary of the data compliance issues that are applicable to BallotOnline and determine how BallotOnline can be compliant. This will be part of your final risk and compliance assessment report.
Step 9: Create a Proposal for a Compliance Program
In previous steps, you have identified potential legal and compliance requirements that BallotOnline may face in migrating to a cloud computing model. Now, you need to determine how BallotOnline can comply with those requirements.
Create a high-level proposal for a compliance program for BallotOnline that enables the organization and its employees to conduct itself in a manner that is in compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. Management has asked you to model the proposal on existing compliance programs for other companies that have migrated to the cloud.Note: Add a high level outline and flowchart for the instructions.
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Step 10: Write the Final Risk Assessment and Compliance Report
As you have learned, there are a number of legal and compliance requirements associated with shifting to a cloud computing model.
It’s time to put everything together in a seven- to 10-page report for BallotOnline executives: summarizing the risk assessment and mitigation as well as legal and compliance requirements associated with moving to the cloud, outlining your recommended action plans for meeting those requirements, and developing a high-level proposal for a compliance program to avoid breaches of the requirements.
Use the final risk and compliance report template to complete your report.
Use the following criteria to respond to the questions.
1.1: Organize document or presentation clearly in a manner that promotes understanding and meets the requirements of the assignment.
1.2: Develop coherent paragraphs or points so that each is internally unified and so that each functions as part of the whole document or presentation.
2.1: Identify and clearly explain the issue, question, or problem under critical consideration.
7.1: Examine legal and regulatory requirements.
7.2: Examine industry best-practices and standards.
8.1: Assess liability issues associated with cloud adoption.
8.2: Assess network security and privacy risks associated with cloud infrastructure.
8.3: Assess management and operational risks associated with cloud.
Please add references. l also need plagiarism report
you are asked to locate any company privacy policy. Some of the more popular ones might include GOOGLE, APPLE, or MICROSOFT, but you may elect to review another agency. In 3- 4 paragraphs, explain what you find to be the most interesting information contained in that privacy policy. At the end of your report, please include a LINK to the policy you have reviewed.
Create a discussion thread (with your name) and answer the following question(s):
Discussion 1 (Chapter 25): How do you define big data? What are the implications from the three industry trends (Three V’s), presented in the textbook, by the Gardner Group? Three V’s presented in the textbook are as follows: Volume, Velocity, and Variety.
Instructions: Your response to the initial question should be 250-300 words. Next respond to two postings provided by your classmates. The first post should be made by Wednesday 11:59 p.m., EST. I am looking for active engagement in the discussion. Please engage early and often. You are require to create your initial thread in order to view and respond to the threads posted by other students. There must be at least one APA formatted reference (and APA in-text citation) to support the thoughts in the post as needed. Do not use direct quotes, rather rephrase the author’s words and continue to use in-text citations.
Complete the following assignment in one MS word document:
1. Describe recommendation systems
2.Describe expert systems
3.Describe chatbots
When submitting work, be sure to include an APA cover page and include at least two APA formatted references (and APA in-text citations) to support the work this week.
All work must be original (not copied from any source).
Implementing stack using STL for extending Bag Interface
Data Visualization and GIS Solutions (130 points)
Research digital dashboards Data Mashups that are available to businesses. In a paper, summarize the range of solutions available with examples of how they might be utilized. Then conduct some research and identify an organization that has adopted one of these software solutions. Briefly describe the organization, and then answer the following questions:
· What technology (or technologies) is the organization using?
· Which business units utilize the data presented by the technology?
· What does the technology provide to the organization? What benefits does it offer and/or what problems does it solve?
· Explain the present and future impacts of such a technology from a business perspective.
· Identify areas in which the organization might expand or improve upon using the technology. Explain what they could do and why they should do it.
