Fortune 1000

This week’s article provided a case study approach which highlights how businesses have integrated Big Data Analytics with their Business Intelligence to gain dominance within their respective industry.  Search the  Google Scholar for a “Fortune 1000” company that has been successful in this integration. Discuss the company, its approach to big data analytics with business intelligence, what they are doing right, what they are doing wrong, and how they can improve to be more successful in the implementation and maintenance of big data analytics with business intelligence. 

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

  • Be approximately four to six pages in length, not including the required cover page and reference page.
  • Follow APA 7 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 and at least two scholarly journal articles to support your positions, claims, and observations, in addition to your textbook. 
  • 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.

InfoTech Import in Strat Plan (ITS-831)

Discussion: IT Governance

Word Count: 300+ words

What do you think were the critical factors that fueled the need for IT governance? In what ways did ISO affect the standards for network security?

Provide an outside source that applies to the topic, along with additional information about the topic or the source (please cite properly in APA)

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

Reading resources:

Chapter 9, “Governance of the Information Systems Organization”. Managing and Using Information Systems, Keri E. Pearlson, Carol S. Saunders, Dennis F. Galletta, John Wiley & Sons 

Sari, R., Kosala, R., Ranti, B., & Supangkat, S. H. (2018). COSO Framework for Warehouse Management Internal Control Evaluation: Enabling Smart Warehouse Systems. 2018 International Conference on ICT for Smart Society (ICISS), 1. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTSS.2018.8549983

Bailey, E., & Becker, J. D. (2014). A comparison of IT governance and control frameworks in cloud computing. Twentieth Americas Conference on Information Systems, Savannah. Retrieved from https://aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1160&context=amcis2014

plagiarism check required, Good work, APA format, within 8hrs

CLoud Computing Questions

1.  250 words

Discuss the pros and cons of using a blog to present content on behalf of a company. Discuss the type of content for which a blog may be most appropriate.  Use at least one source to support your discussion.  Reference your source in APA.

2.  250 words

CASE 6-3 Dropbox Cloud-Based File Sharing and Synchronization (15 pts)

Most users today manage their content on a variety of devices. Dropbox is a cloud-based storage facility for photos, documents, and other digital content. Dropbox provides a convenient folder, as shown in Figure 6-7 of you Jamsa (2013) textbook. In one page, discuss the benefits of having web-based access to a cloud storage area.

The paper must adhere to APA guidelines including Title and Reference pages.  There should be at least one source listed on the reference page.  Each reference cited in the text must appear in the reference list, and each entry in the reference list must be cited in text. APA requirements for this class include:

  • A title page
  • 12-point Time New Roman font
  • Your paper should be typed and double-spaced with 1″ margins on all sides
  • The first sentence of each paragraph should be indented one tab space
  • All papers should contain the page number, flush right, in the header of every page. Use the automatic page-numbering function of your word-processing program to insert page numbers in the top right corner; do not type page numbers manually.
  • APA 7th edition in-text citations
  • Reference page

The Title and Reference pages do not count towards the page count requirement. This paper should be written in third-person. The third-person point of view belongs to the person (or people) being talked about. The third-person pronouns include he, him, his, himself, she, her, hers, herself, it, its, itself, they, them, their, theirs, and themselves (Not I, we, us, our).

Discussion post – Blockchain

The vast majority of the population associates Blockchain with cryptocurrency Bitcoin; however, there are many other uses of blockchain; such as Litecoin, Ether, and other currencies.

question1) In this discussion, please describe at least two cryptocurrencies with applicable examples. Discuss some similarities and differences. 

question2) Lastly, discuss if you have any experience using any cryptocurrencies. 

Note: Minimum 250 words. Use atleast one google scholarly article. Intext citation should be added.

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What do you think is the single greatest physical threat to information systems? Fire? Hurricanes? Sabotage? Terrorism? Something else? Discuss this question and provide support for your answer.

Assignment, Memo and discussions

1.Assignment 

Create an alternative decision matrix for the case system. Using Excel or Word, develop a decision matrix to be used to evaluate three proposed design alternatives (alternatives A, B, and C). 

The idea is to create a worksheet that can be applied to any set of alternatives.

Criteria: Decision matrix has columns for criteria weights and points available, and columns that represent three proposals. Within each proposal include columns for points assigned and 

the product of points assigned times criteria weight. The bottom row of the matrix contains column totals.

Your essay should be 3 pages in content and fully explore all of the following items described above. Include at least 2 outside citations (not including your text) and use proper APA formatting.

Atleast 2 In-line citations and references required.

2. Weekly Memo – Memo should be related to the discussions , assignment and should be one page(citations,references, APA not required). 

Relate this weeks assignment and discussions to your work in office/organization.

3.Discussions

1) Describe the primary activities of the design phase of the SDLC.

2)Distinguish between the two-tier, three-tier, and n-tier client–server architectures.

Each discussion should have atleast 3 paragraphs, 2 inline citations, 2 references. Due by next tuesday evening.

Plagiarism should be very minimal. I may ask for changes if required.

Decision Support system

 

1. Find examples of  an applications for each of the following: decision support systems (DSS), business intelligence (BI), and analytics. Summarize the applications in 300 words. Include a list of resources you used. (10 points) 

2. Identify the future of analytics in healthcare? What will it be used for and what are some expected outcomes. (300 words)

3. What role does and should IBM Watson play in healthcare? Are there significant findings that Watson assisted in obtaining?  (300 words)

 

How will artificial intelligence (AI) improve your business? What advise would you give managers and executives about using AI?  (300 words)

2. What are the major drivers of AI? Are there any impediments your organization needs to be aware of? Are there any reasons organizations should avoid using AI? (300 words)

3. Identify a voice recognition software and explain some of the applications. What type of processing is used for voice recognition? What are some of the issues still with voice recognition? (800 words).

The above assignments should be submitted in one-word document. Include an APA cover page and a reference page.

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.

Analysing and visual data

R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be considered as a different implementation of S. There are some important differences, but much code written for S runs unaltered under R.

Write a discussion on below question

Why are statistical programming languages important to data scientists? What are some advantages and disadvantages the R programming language has over the other main statistical programming languages (i.e. Python, SAS, SQL)?

Convex Hull

This week’s discussion has introduced working with geometric objects and transformations, particularly with respect to scalars, points, and vectors. In this assignment, briefly discuss a convex hull.