MGT 499 Case 2 Consider Comcast Corporation

MGT 499 Case 2 Consider Comcast Corporation

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Consider Comcast in responding to the following:
Why is it best for large organizations like Comcast to use both PEST and Porter’s 5 Forces analysis in helping its leaders to understand their particular external environment?
Make sure you demonstrate understanding of both analytical processes in your discussion and give clear, Comcast related examples to support your arguments.
Second, describe how the information obtained from the organization’s macro-level external analysis might be used by an organization like Comcast in performing their SWOT analysis.
In short, what should an organization like Comcast be doing to analyze the external environment at the macro-level and how does that overlap with the organization’s micro-level analysis efforts?
Make sure you provide well-reasoned and well supported arguments.

BUSI 400 Individual Assignment 1

BUSI 400 Individual Assignment 1
Assurance of Learning Exercise 1

1.Complete Assurance of Learning Exercise 1B, Step 4, on textbook page 36. (Note: In addition to the instructions, you may choose to use the company’s corresponding website for the Annual Report and/or the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Edgar database for the corresponding 10K.)
2.Complete Assurance of Learning Exercise 10D on textbook page 321. (Note: There are correct and incorrect answers.)
3.Complete Assurance of Learning Exercise 1D, Steps 1–2, on textbook page 37.
4.Complete Assurance of Learning Exercise 1F, Step 1, on textbook page 38. (Note: Replace the use of ” SMCO” in the assignment instructions with the use of www.ceoexpress.com or Standard and Poor’s. Standard and Poor’s can be accessed via Liberty University’s Online Library.) Upon completion of Step 1, prepare a 1-page summary of your findings using current APA format.
5.Place the results of the exercise(s) in a single document and submit it via the link provided. Include your name, class, section number, and the number of the exercise(s) on the attachment (e.g.: 1B, Step 3).
Be sure that the assignment is in a business-professional format; include current APA citing and referencing.

Group Case Analysis 2 Complete a case analysis of Apple

Group Case Analysis 2 Complete a case analysis of Apple

Group Case Analysis 2
Complete a case analysis of Apple Corporation (your instructor will assign the specific company for the case analysis at the beginning of Module/Week 8), in the case section of the text (e.g. Case Number 1).
The completed case must include:
BCG MATRIX – My part of the project
IE MATRIX – My part of the project
I need the a BCG Matrix and IE Matrix for the Apple company

BUSI 400 Individual Case Analysis 1

BUSI 400 Individual Case Analysis 1

Individual Case Analysis 1

1. Complete Experiential Exercise 4C, Step 1, on textbook pages 124. Once you have found Table 4-6, complete the first 18 ratios and then 2 of your choice from the remaining ratios (this will equal the 20 required in the Assurance of Learning Exercise).
2. Complete Case 1: Domino’s Pizza, Inc., on textbook page 372 in the case section by answering the 8 questions on textbook page 381 (last page of the case under the section heading “The Future”).
3. Place the results of the experiential exercise and case in a single document and submit it via the link provided. Include your name, class, section number, and the number of the exercise(s) on the attachment (e.g.: 1B, Step 3). Be sure that the assignment is in a business-professional format; include current APA citing and referencing.

CIS 515 Assignment 6 SQL Concepts and Database Design

CIS 515 Assignment 6 SQL Concepts and Database Design

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The Strayer Oracle Server may be used to test and compile the SQL Queries developed for this assignment. Your instructor will provide you with login credentials to a Strayer University maintained Oracle server.
Imagine that you work for a finance industry-based organization. Your organization is looking to submit its database design documentation to an evaluation team in order to meet Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance. You have been assigned to assist in preparing the documentation of the organization’s sales database. You are asked to propose a data dictionary that can be used to document the following:

•  Employee (EmpNumber, EmpFirstName, EmpLastName, CommissionRate, YrlySalary, DepartmentID, JobID)
•  Invoice (InvNumber, InvDate, EmpNumber, InvAmount, CustomerID)
•  InvoiceLine (InvLineNumber, InvNumber, ProductNumber, Quantity)
•  Product (ProductNumber, ProductDescription, ProductCost)
•  Department (DepartmentID, DepartmentDescription)
•  Job (JobID, JobDescription)
•  Customer (CustomerID, CustomerName, CustomerAddress, CustomerPhone)

Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

1. Create a data dictionary that includes the following:
   1. A description of the content for each field
   2. The data type of each field
   3. The format the data will be stored as in the field
   4. The range of value for the field
   5. A label, as required, if the attribute is a primary key or foreign key

Note: An example is shown in Table 7.3 in chapter 7 of the textbook.

2. Imagine that you are asked to identify the number of days that exist between the first invoice and last invoice for each month and complete the following:
   1. Construct a query that will show the number of days that exist between the first invoice and last invoice, for each month, for each employee, using the DATEDIFF function. Be sure to provide the SQL script that will carry out this function.
   2. Construct a query to show the expected payment date if invoices are due within 30 days of transaction.
   3. Construct a query that will show distinct area codes of the customers.
3. Create a plan of the necessary activities that would be required to implement a valid database design process by including the following:
   1. Steps in the conceptual design stage
   2. Steps in DBMS selection stage
   3. Steps in logical design stage
   4. Steps in physical design stage
   5. Task details of each activity within each stage

CIS 515 Assignment 5 Tour Operator Agency Database

CIS 515 Assignment 5 Tour Operator Agency Database

CIS 515 Tour Operator Agency Database

The Strayer Oracle Server may be used to test and compile the SQL Queries developed for this assignment. Your instructor will provide you with login credentials to a Strayer University maintained Oracle server.
A multinational tour operator agency has gained new business growth in the North American market through the use of social media. Its operation has expanded by 50% within six months and the agency requires an enhanced data management strategy to sustain their business operations. Their existing data repository for its reservation processing system is limited in business intelligence and reporting functionalities. The tour operator seeks a database management specialist to assist them in leveraging their data sources to enable them to forecast and project tour sales appropriately.
Imagine that you have been hired to fulfill their need of enhancing the data repository for their current reservation processing system. Upon reviewing the system, you find that the data structure holds redundant data and that this structure lacks normalization. The database has the following characteristics:

•  A table that stores all the salespersons. The table holds their employee id, first name, last name and “Tours sold” field. The “Tours sold” field is updated manually.
•  A table that stores tour customer data and tours sold. The table holds customer name, address, city, state, zip code, tour(s) selected, number of persons in tour, and total amount paid. The current structure will show the customer more than once, if the customer books multiple tours.
•  A tour table that is used as a tour rate sheet which holds the tours offered and the cost per person. Tour rates vary every three (3) months depending on the tourist season.Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you propose an enhanced database management strategy. Your proposal should include the following:

1. Design a data model that will conform to the following criteria:
   1. Propose an efficient data structure that may hold the tour operator’s data using a normalization process. Describe each step of the process that will enable you to have a 2nd Normal Form data structure.
   2. Create naming conventions for each entity and attributes.
   3. Conclude your data model design with an Entity Relationship Model (ERM) that will visually represent the relationships between the tables. You may make use of graphical tools in Microsoft Word or Visio, or an open source alternative such as Dia. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
2. Construct a query that can be used on a report for determining how many days the customer’s invoice will require payment if total amount due is within 45 days. Provide a copy of your working code as part of the paper.
3. Using the salesperson table described in the summary above, complete the following:
   1. Construct a trigger that will increase the field that holds the total number of tours sold per salesperson by an increment of one (1).
   2. Create a query that can produce results that show the quantity of customers each salesperson has sold tours to.
   3. Support the reasoning behind using stored procedures within the database as an optimization process for the database transactions.

CIS 515 Week 10 Technical Paper

CIS 515 Week 10 Technical Paper: Database Administrator for Department Store

CIS 515 Week 10 Technical Paper

CIS 515 Week 10 :The Strayer Oracle Server may be used to test and compile the SQL Queries developed for this assignment. Your instructor will provide you with login credentials to a Strayer University maintained Oracle server.
Imagine that you have been hired as the database administrator for a local department store. The department store has recently expanded by opening five (5) stores within your local region. They have also launched a series of marketing campaigns to attract new customers and increase sales. For your hired role, you will be responsible for creating and maintaining an enterprise-wide database system that will hold the sales and inventory data for the organization. The designed database will help operations in supporting its new business marketing strategy. Using the concepts presented throughout the course, you will develop a plan to create this database and establish a design that aligns with the product sales initiatives of the organization.

• Write a twelve to fifteen (12-15) page paper in which you:

• Identify the potential sales and department store transactions that can be stored within the database.
• Design a database solution and the potential business rules that could be used to house the sales transactions of the department store.
• Evaluate all relationships of each entity within your database solution using the Crow’s Foot notation. Include all data elements, entities, relationships (such as 1:M, 1:1, M:N), and cardinalities for the department store database in your diagram. Note:The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
• Research the Internet for best practices of how retail stores use databases for retaining customers and increasing sales and complete the following:
  • Justify how Big Data tools could be used for forecasting sales and inventory of the department store.
  • Propose two (2) SQL Stored Procedures that use SQL functions to help sales associates perform explanatory or predictive analytics.
  • Give your opinion on which of the two (2) ways you proposed in Question four (4) b provide greater value to expanding their business within the region.
  • Provide a copy of your working SQL code as part of the paper.
• Research the Internet for database vendors that provide cloud computing services and complete the following:
  • Estimate the types of costs involved or the pricing structure required when implementing a cloud-hosted solution for a database.
  • Analyze security considerations and pricing of the different cloud implementation types.
  • Rank the cloud services options of Software as a Service, Platform as a Service and Infrastructure as a Service in terms of functionality, mobility, and ability to provide distributed transaction concurrency. Compare how these cloud-based services fit within an environment where users are mobile. Determine the technical provisions that would be required to ensure data integrity.
• Evaluate whether the use of a distributed DBMS structure is appropriate and identify the optimization techniques that should be factored in to enhance the operations of the database in your design.
• Provide at least two (2) examples of how lost updates and uncommitted data may occur, keeping in mind that five (5) stores will be generating transactions.
• Determine the concurrency control factors that can be used to ensure valid execution of transactions within the current multiuser environment.
• Research the Internet for backup and restoration recovery solutions and database security threats that could be applicable to the department store. Upon your research, complete the following:
  • Suggest at least two (2) options that could be made available to provide disaster management functions for the database system within the retail environment.
  • Assess the types of security threats that may exist when managing the department store database and suggest measure(s) that can be performed to minimize these threats that are particular to retail.
• Use at least six (6) quality resources in this assignment. Note:Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.