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Select from the following list four (4) topics and discuss. Use only 50-words max per topic to discuss and present your answer.  The discussion questions this week are from Chapter 7 (Jamsa, 2013).

Chapter 7 topics:

• Define collaboration.
• Define and describe cloud-based collaboration.
• The CIO of Ace Accounting Services suggests that the company can save considerable money using VoIP for phone calls. Define and describe VoIP. Then present three companies that provide VoIP offerings. Compare and contrast each company’s offering. Also, discuss whether or not you agree with the CIO and justify why.
• List the questions one should consider when evaluating a cloud-based collaborative solution.

NOTE: You are required to use at least two-peer reviewed sources (besides your textbook) to answer the above questions

Assignment Content

1. The director of Information Technology (IT) has indicated that the Board of Directors is compiling a corporate portfolio on ethics and has asked all departments to contribute information on how to write policy statements that reflect a code of ethics. The director of IT has asked for you to provide an example of a policy statement that reflects work you do in IT administration.

   Research the cultural and global political considerations for the use of a sharing service as presented in the lab and the data which could be hosted and made available via the Internet. Reflect on the idea that some issues, such as keeping data unalterable, could transcend cultures, while other IT choices could depend on your cultural perspective.

   Consider the following:

   • How cultural perspective could impact the security decisions of an administrator setting up SharePoint® Server 2013 citing choices that were made in the labs
   • Global political issues, such as corruption, human rights, and rights to privacy in the U.S. and Key Nations, based on your readings and discussions this week
   • Write a 1- to 2-page example of a policy statement using Microsoft Word. Complete the following in your document:
   • A brief description of the types of data that are hosted and made available via the Internet using SharePoint® Server 2013. Include at least 2 types.
   • At least 2 cultural or global political considerations for sharing services (e.g., privacy rights)
   • Your opinion regarding any IT choices that seem to transcend culture
   • At least 1 example of choices you have when administering SharePoint® Server 2013 that could depend on your ethical stance
   • A brief policy statement for configuring SharePoint® Server 2013 that aligns with your ethical stance on data integrity (e.g., “The organization will seek to protect confidential and proprietary information when configuring SharePoint® Server 2013.”)
   • Cite any references to support your assignment.

     Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

      

Convert the following from a list comprehension to a non-comprehension, i.e. regular Python code.

Hint: Use 2 nested for loops

x1 = [1,2]

x2 = [3,4]



print("B:", [(x, y) for x in x1 for y in x2])

Output:

B: [(1, 3), (1, 4), (2, 3), (2, 4)]

The goal of the project is to implement a “prototype” database system application / ERD diagram for an eCommerce social-network system called UCOnline where users can explore information about books/music/software, rate your purchase, identify purchase price and see ratings of their friends.

 The project will require you to complete the assignment individually. Below you will find the ERD deliverable requirements. There are two parts to the assignment. You must create a diagram using a diagramming tool AND provide a written text-based document explaining your relationship mapping (systems analysis use case document). The assignment is worth 350 points. See rubric for grading scheme. 

BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS ACROSS ALL ASSIGNMENTS

You will work with book/music/media information, user information, ratings of books, and users’ social network

• Each book has an id, title, publication date, publisher, ISBN, functional category, page count, price (publisher), and product description
• There are 3 categories of book: fiction, non-fiction, and specialty
• There are 2 categories of music: digital and media-based
• An author can write one or more books.
• A musician can be a solo artist, part of a group, or both
• An author can also be associated with one or more publishers.
• A musician/group/act can be associated with one or more music houses
• An author’s book can have one or more editions.
• A song and or album can have more than one version/edition (i.e. EP, LP, CD, DVD etc)
• A publisher can have many authors and many books.
• A record company can have many artists associated and many albums associated with it. 
• A record company can also be the publishing company (i.e. self-publishing)
• Many ISBNs can also be associated with a given publisher but only one ISBN per form of medium (ie the ISBN is the PK no matter what).
• An author can write many books.
• An artist can write many songs, albums etc.

UCOnline needs to keep track of user ratings for each item sold in the online store (e.g., 1-5 and 1 for ‘Dislike’, to 5, for ‘Awesome!’).

A particular user rates a particular item at a given time.

A user CANNOT rate the same multiple times unless there are multiple editions of the item. Each edition can be rated separately.

Each user who submits a rating will be identified by a unique id and has a name, gender, age, and location. Nothing is anonymous.

There is also a social network between users. Users can send communication requests (i.e. instant messages/emails) to other users. Such requests can be accepted or ignored. Once accepted, the two users are considered ‘book buddies.’ If ignored, the user can send the request again. We want to add a store when the requests were sent (timestamp), the result of the requests and when the request was answered (timestamp).

Question: Today’s Global Economy is very top-down driven with the government making all the decisions and regulations as it relates to doing business globally.  What are some advantages and disadvantages of this approach?  Is there another approach that might work better?

• Provide extensive additional information on the topic
• Explain, define, or analyze the topic in detail
• Share an applicable personal experience
• please cite properly in APA
• Make an argument concerning the topic.
• Your initial post must be at least 250 words 

No Plagirsam 

Please complete Chapter 2 – discussion question #1 & exercises 4, 5, and 15 (limit to one page of analysis for question 15)

Discussion question 1 – Discuss the difficulties in measuring the intelligence of machines. 

Exercise 4 – In 2017, McKinsey & Company created a five-part video
titled “Ask the AI Experts: What Advice Would You Give to Executives About AI?” View the video and summarize the advice given to the major issues discussed.
 

Exercise 5 – Watch the McKinsey & Company video (3:06 min.) on today’s drivers of AI at youtube.com/ watch?v=yv0IG1D-OdU and identify the major AI drivers. Write a report. 

Exercise 15 – Explore the AI-related products and services of Nuance Inc. (nuance.com). Explore the Dragon voice recognition product. 

Assignment:

create a User Interface Design Document for this desktop part of the vehicle of interest application. 

The project background and requirements information are attached. Take the template User Interface Design Template and complete it for your design. 

You are to use Pencil GUI Designer for screen mockups.

This design must conform to good design standards.

The theme of this research paper is Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Business. For this

assignment, you must think about the future of business, considering current trends toward

automation of business processes. You must research current trends and summarize your

research as a report. The general structure of the report is as follows

An introductory section about current technological trends providing context for your

report;

2. A description of select applications of AI to business (minimum 3) in one particular business area Have particularly

business areas (of your interest) in mind (e.g., HR, Marketing and Sales, Finance,

Operations). You must also describe and analyze these technologies based on their

potential to be game changers;

3. The challenges for such applications to become widespread and beneficial to

companies;

4. A conclusion section (with your takeaway from the discussion).

To write the report you will need to cover at least the following:

1. Your report must adhere to APA formatting;

2. You must research at least 5 recent (i.e., less than 10 years) peer-reviewed articles.

Exceptionally, highly regarded industry sources (e.g., IBM, Oracle, SAP, McKinsey,

Accenture, Deloitte, Capgemini) will be accepted;

3. Other than APA formatting, the structure for the paper is not fixed, if there is a logical

flow of ideas. The length of the paper is not an issue and maximum should be 5-6 pages

Draft a response to each of the questions below. After you have  posted your own response, make sure you go back through the discussion  and read the responses of your peers. Make sure you respond to at least  two of your peers’ posts and take the opportunity to ask questions and  share ideas. Your responses should again be detailed, thoughtful &  substantial. Use your textbook and other academic resources to justify  your responses.

1. When did Wi-Fi become an official standard?  Who is the governing body?
2. What are some of the different Wi-Fi standards?  How are they similar?  How are they different?
3. How do we keep Wi-Fi, or wireless networks, secure?
4. What are some different companies that offer wireless networking equipment?  Compare and contrast some of their equipment.  

How do you reconcile the “learning and experimentation” model of development-test-measure with developing relevant for on-time digital personalization?