Essays on Big Data

Purpose

This paper intends to investigate how well the Pakistan pharmaceutical industry’s supply chain system performs. The thesis aims to achieve this purpose by examining the transportation, outsourcing, logistics management, and government regulations, and how these factors influence the efficiency and effectiveness of the pharmaceutical industry of Pakistan. In particular, the paper provides insights into the performance related practices used in the Pakistani pharmaceutical industry. Consequently, it points out the need for more research aimed at capturing dynamics and specific operational characteristics of local networks for development and improvement. Further, by denoting the relationship between system practices and SCM ...

Using Digital Media to Achieve Organizational Goals, a Walmart Case

Using Digital Media to Achieve Organizational Goals, a Walmart Case

Introduction/Synopsis

Digital media types are some of the greatest technological advancements that provide benefits to humans. They can be used in various ways that every individual is able to achieve his or her goals by using different types of digital devices, such as mobile phones and personal computers. Digital media also enables humans to access a wide range of communication to the point that geographical location is no longer an issue just to send and receive messages and information from different parts of the country and around the globe. In ...

In order to get the commission for each employ we first have to generate a database and its tables. CREATE TABLE Employee( EmpNumber int not null, EmpFirstName varchar(100) not null, EmpLastName varchar(100) not null, CommissionRate decimal(3,2) not null, YrlySalary int not null, DepartmentID int, JobID int, PRIMARY KEY (EmpNumber), FOREIGN KEY (DepartmentID) references Department(DepartmentID), FOREIGN KEY (JobID) references Job(JobID) ).

CREATE TABLE Job( JobID int not null, JobDescription varchar(400) not null, PRIMARY KEY (JobID) )

CREATE TABLE Department( DepartmentID int not null, DepartmentDescription varchar(400) not null, PRIMARY KEY(DepartmentID) ) CREATE TABLE Invoice (InvNumber int not null, InvDate date, EmpNumber int, InvAmount int not null, PRIMARY KEY (InvNumber), FOREIGN ...

Business Intelligence and Analytics in Higher Education Institutions

Business Intelligence and Analytics

Business Intelligence and Analytics refers to the process of collecting and analyzing data from internal and external systems to produce actionable information to help in making decisions. The process of business intelligence and analytics is driven by information technology and in modern business; there are countless software for this purpose. The users of the simplified actionable information could be management or the people in operations. The current economy is information-driven; producing what has come to be known as the knowledge economy. Modern business is generally driven by having the right information at the right time ...

Toyota Motor Corporation

The company developed in 1937. In 1938, it launched Just in Time (JIT) system. In 1991 Prius was introduced. In 2000s, products like Passo, Porte, Rush, and LS 600h were announced and with the focus on sustainability in relation to Toyota’s Way, energy efficient cars like SAI, Prius Plug-in Hybird were introduced (Toyota’s History). The company designs, manufactures, assembles, and sells passenger vehicles, minivans, and commercial vehicles along with related parts and accessories. The products that are offered by the company include hybrid cars under Prius, Corolla, Harrier; fuel cell passenger cars under the MIRAI; and conventional ...

Discussion Question

Hive was discovered by Jeff Hammerbacher during his tenure at Facebook. Facebook was receiving huge volumes of data daily, and there was a need to create a mechanism to help in data storage, mining, and analysis. It is this tool that allows Facebook to process thousands of Terabytes of Data with ease on a daily basis. Hive employs a language called HQL which works in a similar way as SQL. Irrespective of the limitations of commands that HQL understands, the language is still useful. Hive gives users with little programming knowledge the capacity to process, extract and analyze data ...

2017

The Research Method Introduction The research method is an essential part of the research design as it determines the framework in what type of data is collected and how it is utilized to address the central research problem and answer the research questions (Creswell, 2013). Therefore, effort is directed to evaluate what research method should be utilized in the case study so as to understand the impact of mining and quarrying activities in the Akamkpa mining region located in Nigeria (Creswell, 2013). Research methods are practical ways for conducting research and require that the research scope, problem and questions ...

IT Department

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Introduction

Organization Details:

Type: Multinational Corporation - Private Limited Company Vision Statement “Lead from the front, prepare for the future and create solutions from data.” -DataStackArray Systems Pvt. Ltd. DataStackArray Systems (DSAS) Private Limited is an organization that has a mission to provide a comprehensive and valuable platform for individuals and organizations seeking solutions from their big data. DSAS has a vision towards the big data industry to become a platform that provides viable solutions for all kinds of big data and makes the life of solution seekers ...

Thank you for this opportunity. We realize that there are several consultants from which to choose when it comes to this kind of analysis. We trust you will find this summary report informative and hope you will consider us for future projects. The most succinct answer to your question is this – Health Care. We almost wonder if this is a trick question to be honest. The demographics are clear and America is, as we all know, “graying.” Add to that the fact that Sarasota is in Florida, also known as “God’s waiting room,” and this became what we ...

Summary of the Case Analysis

The case “Amazon’s Big Data Strategy” highlights the strategy implemented by the leading e-commerce company Amazon, which showed remarkable performance over the past two decades. Amazon was established by Jeffrey Bezos in the year 1994 and it started off as an online bookstore only. Today, it has diversified into a number of categories and National Retail Federation ranked Amazon among the top ten retailers in the US. Similarly, its subsidiary Zappos is also on the top ten list, which Amazon bought off in 2009 in a deal worth $1.2 bn. However, the case primarily focuses on the Amazon's ...

Introduction

Statistics is a branch of mathematics, aimed at collecting and analyzing data via different methods such as analysis of variance, kurtosis, skewness or regression analysis. Nowadays, statistics helps processing data with a help of creating various charts that in turn help visualizing complex data sets. There are two major types of statistics, descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. Descriptive and inferential statistics require proper hypothesis formation and thus proper selection of the statistical tests that in turn have to be analyzed and interpreted successfully.

Descriptive Statistics

Descriptive statistics implies application of various coefficients that simplify process of data processing and aggregation (Trochim, ...

Summary of the Analysis

The mission statement of the company is efficient because it states what Amazon is, what it does, and why it exists, which are critical features. It also provides a guideline for the pricing strategy of the corporation; for instance, its choice to offer the lowest prices for quality products makes it very attractive to online shoppers. The firm formulates and implements its grand strategies, such as pricing, integration, diversification, location, and pricing based on its vision and mission statements. The SWOT analysis reveals that it has significant strengths that give it a competitive edge over its competitors. It also ...

Abstract

Computers scientist have been grappling with the challenge of developing cognitive systems. Some of the challenges that have made the creation of such systems include natural language processing and machine learning. However, IBM has been able to produce a system known as Watson that has demonstrated human-like intelligence. The system was able to deal with the challenge of natural language processing by using a parsing process to derive the context of questions. This made IBM Watson have human-like understanding of natural language. The system is also built on active technologies that facilitate adaptation training through data and user changes. ...

The business evolution has taken different era of analytics data development. The development of analytics has taken three stages characterized by distinguishing characters in a particular era. These stages comprise of different era characters that have contributed in business evolutions and more particularly to data analysis and performance in customer, products, and services. Analytics 1.0 indicates the business intelligence as it shows beginning of the ability to use and utilize data in firms’ operations. These data sets were in small volumes and their velocity segregated in a manner of analyzing the businesses performances (Davenport, 2013). The era also comprised ...

Inter-organizational Innovation Networks (IT): Role of cloud computing and big data on Business Model Innovation

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Abstract

This report looks at how cloud computing and big data impact business model innovation and if these technologies enable companies to implement quicker and more efficient means to interact with customers and enhance their profitability and growth potential. Meta-analysis was conducted by accessing peer-reviewed literature which targets issues surrounding the research problem and research questions. Despite the uncertainty in terms of knowledge and expertise in the IT industry due to rapid technological developments there are still opportunities to be leveraged by businesses. However, in answer to the research questions it is found that cloud computing and big ...

“The Few. The Proud. The Marines.” This is a well-known, long standing slogan for the Marine Corps military recruiting campaign; originations dating back to 1799 (Szoldra, 2015). This slogan wishes to draw attention to the promise of creating one with an elite social status. Through many centuries of recruiting, and many slogan trials, this slogan has stood the test of time and creates familiarity by mere existence. Now consider the latest slogan being launched by the US Marine Corps, “Toward the Sound of Chaos” (Dao, 2012). The marketing method unfolds by focusing on something that is found in endless ...

In geospatial technologies, usability engineering is used to deliberate on the patterns within data sets while also proposing possible hypothesis through which such patterns came to exist. Usability engineering is in itself an analytical tool for studying complex geographical data with the aim of understanding the reasons behind the existence of specific geographical systems. Usability engineering is largely concerned with the application of computer systems with the aim of enhancing the analysis of complex geospatial datasets. It also seeks to improve the human-computer interactive platforms to ensure that the reliability of the decoded information and simulate possible situations that ...

Part 1

Sony Corporation has invested in their security policies and procedures. In the last few years, they have set up an Information and Security and Privacy Organization that handles all aspects of global standards and policies. Sony Corporation security aspects include approved modes of operation, identification and authentication policies, access and control policies and physical security policies. The policies provide guidance for the employee (Hash et al, 2005). Sony also has a policy that provides guidance on mitigation of attacks. As an organization, Sony has put in place security standards and policies that cover almost all areas. However, from an ...

Introduction

Cancer is a disease that is associated with high morbidity and mortality rates. The Prognosis of the diseases in many of the patients is also poor (Adorno & Brownell, 2014). The Economic cost involved in treating the conditions and other factors serve as an incentive for studies into approaches for the identification of high risk people. The development of brain metastases in patients diagnosed with lung cancer further amplifies the disease burden (Adorno & Brownell, 2014). This paper summarizes two articles in which the authors present content on the use markers in the identification of high risk populations.

Summary of Articles

The article by ...

As afore identified, mental health forms an area of concern in as far as the achievement of overall community health is concerned. The health outcomes of an individual are majorly determined by their state of mental health (Jorm, 2012). Mental health issues such as stress and depression have an enormous impact on an individual’s quality of life. These issues affect many spheres of life including; social, economic and health (Thoits, 2013). This being the case, there is the need for a health promotion intervention purposely intended to promote mental health. Achieving an optimal level of mental at a ...

The technologies described in the document can be more accurately employed in manufacturing businesses where the production manager is located far from the factory. Notably, the production manager using teleconferencing can manage several production facilities across different locations in the world at the same time and; hence, ensure standardized production across the world. However, this would require the use of standardized inputs starting from the raw materials, labor, and even the machines involved in the production process across the world. In such a setting, the transferability of skills across the world would be made easier while the costs of ...

The goal of any business is to increase its sale and hence the profit. Increase in sales can be achieved by attracting more and more customers and retaining as many of them as possible. This is possible only when the customers feel satisfied by the product or service offered by the business. Previously managements relied on customer feedback to improve their services. This is not a foolproof method as the feedback is not always accurate. The best way is to track the behaviour of individual customer and customize the service according to his or her needs. Big data offers ...

Business Class Capstone Project

Introduction In this paper, I will describe and discuss the application of statistical techniques learned in class to a real-world problem. According to the instructions of the assignment, I am a chief analyst for a medium-sized company. I decided that my company is a medium sized diamond store. An executive gave me a data set of diamond sales and asked me to explore this data. The executive wants to know how this data can be used to improve the business. The data will be analyzed by the means of various statistical tools. I will start with the descriptive statistics ...

Introduction

The Alfa Bank is a medium sized bank, which has branches in Russia, Ukraine, Belorussia, Nederland, and Kazakhstan. The bank is a universal financial institute and provides all types of financial services to individuals, small and medium-sized businesses. Now the bank already has developed hardware and software infrastructure. The operating system for workstations as well as for servers is Windows. It uses Colvir software as ABS, Compass as card system, CRM (customer relationships management) software and different kinds of distance banking solutions for more efficient customer service.

Problem description

For years of bank operating a huge data amounts were collected (hundreds ...

Introduction

Cancer is a disease that is associated with high morbidity and mortality rates. The prognosis of the diseases in many of the patients is also poor (Adorno & Brownell, 2014). The economic cost involved in treating the conditions and other factors serve as an incentive for studies into approaches for the identification of high risk people. The development of brain metastases in patients diagnosed with lung cancer further amplifies the disease burden (Adorno & Brownell, 2014). This paper summarizes two articles in which the authors present content on the use markers in the identification of high risk populations.

Summary of Articles

The article by ...

Abstract

There are several heart illnesses which cause a large number of deaths from stroke, coronary artery disease, aortic and peripheral illnesses. The treatment of the illnesses requires a huge amount of funds and time. Therefore, there is the need to improvise or innovate new ways to prevent or detect it on earlier. The sophisticated mechanism needs to be put in place to analyze medical data to give signs of the illness through the application of analytic algorithms to provide definite signs. Technology is evolving bringing about significant changes in the medical industry, especially in electronic health records. It has ...

Introduction

As the manager of an IT company experiencing a merger or acquisition, it is the perfect opportunity to reevaluate, or improve the situation because the customers would normally expect the worst if they are unaware of the process. “A great deal of the mergers fails to deliver the promised improvements which were previously specified and it interferes with the shareholder value. This may happen to be the result of knowing that merger or acquisition decisions are inherent tradeoffs” (McLelland, Goldsmith, & McMahon, 2014). Companies tend to focus more on the aspects of reducing their overall operational costs or worrying about ...

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Introduction

It can be indisputably averred that human trafficking is on track to become a major social and criminal issue in the United States. Commonly known as slavery, human trafficking is a criminal offense that involves “the exploitation of a person for the purpose of compelled labor or a commercial sex act.” With the adoption of the 2000 Trafficking Victims Protection Act, various personnel in the criminal justice system, from prosecutors and community leaders, have reported instances of slavery, debt enslavement, and being trafficked into the commercial sex work industry that have affected a wide range of American citizens-men, ...

Health Care Privacy and Security Law: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA)

Introduction Every citizen is required to achieve and maintain privacy and security of healthcare information as stated by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT). It provides resources assisting citizens to succeed in achieving their responsibilities concerning privacy and security of electronic health care data. Thus, electronic health care records concerning data storage and transmittal is a sensitive and serious issue. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) offers a guide to health care privacy and security. It was enacted on August 1996 encompassing administrative simplification provisions requiring the United States Department of Health ...

The requirements of today's market are not only a high level of service, reliability and flexibility, but also achievement of minimum cost. Expert experience has shown that management optimization allows the supply chain to achieve a significant improvement in performance, such as cost reductions in various categories, reduce inventory levels while increasing service levels, improve the accuracy of forecasting and planning quality and so on. The need for modernization is not only dictated by short-term supply chain needs in the economy, but also medium and long-term development plans. The leaders focus on strategic business results, looking for opportunities to ...

CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION

1.0 Introduction The phrasal word ‘Big Data’ means literally an enormously huge volume of data. In the present information era, terabytes of data are generated and petabytes of data are processed everyday with the outreach of ubiquitous social media, online shopping and many other mobile and internet based applications. The traditional methodologies became inadequate to process, analyze and extract information from these huge data volumes from diverse sources and of new and different data types. So, new ‘Big Data’ methodologies have been developed in dealing with this barrage of data and to help governments, businesses and industries in taking ...

Thesis

Improved Detection and Characterization of Obscured Central Gland Tumors of the Prostate:

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2016

©2016 by All rights reserved Approved by First Reader Boris Nicolas Bloch, M.D.

Associate Professor of Radiology and

Director of Bioimaging Science Second Reader Kevin Thomas, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Bioimaging and Health Emergency

DEDICATION I would like to dedicate this work to my patient spouse Landry, my wonderful children Charlie and Phoenix, and my dog Armani. (Delete this page if you don't need it. Be sure to delete all the text on the page, and the page break after it, not the section break before it. To see the section and page breaks, ...

BUSINESS MEGA TRENDS ANALYSIS IN RETAIL SECTOR

Business Mega Trends Analysis in Retail Sector When E- commerce was introduced as an option to conventional trading, little did the business experts know that it would grow into the most preferred business transactional process in a span of just ten years. Today technology, market forces, customer satisfaction and ease of transactions are the factors which determine the success rate of a business enterprise. These factors, also known as Mega trends are driving changes in the retail sector and unless retailers recognize and restructure themselves to build a competitive edge in the present international market, they may be heading ...

Business Strategy

Strategic Alliances: A Critical Analysis of Successful Alliances toward Knowledge Creation and Management Introduction Going beyond the current trends in the business literature on strategic alliances, this paper explores ways strategic alliances are helping organizational firms gain competitive edge, more particularly through opening the access to markets and eventually in the creation of knowledge. This is followed by analysis of issues surrounding strategic alliances, current business examples and challenges faced by organizations that form alliances. Finally, we conclude with a brief take on the future of strategic partnership and knowledge creation research.

The Meaning of Strategic Alliance

Since becoming a trend three decades ago, ...

The primary difference between a data warehouse and a database is the that a data warehouse is a repository of data that has been obtained from different sources over time, and that is stored in a unified schema and is typically used for decision support and analysis. On the other hand, a database is a representation of the presented status of particular data that has been stored and is mainly used to handle live quires and online transactions. The similarities between a database and data warehouse are that they are both means of storing large amounts of data. Characterization ...

Different data elements are significant informatics components that are extremely necessary for the flow of information through the structure of the healthcare organization. It is on this basis that the following article will discuss three data elements that one is likely to choose from in the analysis of care in a health care entity. The first element that would be chosen would be a data warehouse. Basically, having a data warehouse is a crucial element in light of the several initiatives driven by data particularly in the healthcare sector. With the data element, the healthcare system will be capable ...

PBS Documentary Reflection

Many lessons are enhanced with the right film. This is because something visual and entertaining that speaks to the subject breaks the monotony of the lecture. The human face of big data life documentary is a technology-based production by PBS Company that focuses on various issues in digital world. The video is focused on the changing of lives caused by the development in the developments of digital services. The paper shall discuss and reflect on the most interesting aspects of the video. The paper has a focus on a range of data storages from family setups to modernization and ...

Business Strategy

Strategic Alliances: A Critical Analysis of Successful Alliances toward Knowledge Creation and Management Introduction In today’s business landscape, creating sustainable value for customers and shareholders requires the initiation of an alliance strategy. Strategic alliances are alternative modes of global business operations that small to large enterprises are considering in order to achieve stronger and more effective market presence. Moreover, alliances are a fact of life for business, which needs to align present and future strategy to current radical technological and structural changes, globalization, and increased competitive pressures (Janczak, 2008). Meanwhile, the issues of trust, partner selection, and the ...

Q#1 David Bowe is the identified fashion icon. Regarding self-concept and perception, Bowe had a real self, which was the most natural demeanor and personality in real life. Primarily, it was observed when he was away from the media and public eye. On the other hand, he also had the ideal self, which was a creation of the public and celebrity persona which most people knew. The first areas of focus here is the real self of Bowe before he became the star icon most people know. The real self of the fashion icon was manifested since his childhood. ...

Individual Reaction to the Advent of Artificial Intelligence

Introduction Through advancements in science and technology, human beings have managed to create machines that work more or less in the same way as the human brain, performing tasks like mathematical calculations and language translations. This is what has come to be known as Artificial intelligence (AI) which is the kind of intelligence that machines exhibit when certain manipulations and programming is done to them. Some of these machines like the IBM computer, Watson, are capable of mimicking or performing certain cognitive functions that are normally associated with the human brain only. Artificial intelligence research thus deals with problems ...

Abstract

The privacy and confidentiality of information is a crucial factor for any organization dealing with large volumes of information. On the other hand, the development in technology, increase in the cases of cybercrimes, and the web-security issues that are common in almost every online platform, makes the need for database security concern for organizations that handle date. Currently, DBMS is one of the best tools for ensuring the safety of data, and this paper will review its use in database security. It will give a cognitive outline of how a company can use it, with the sole focus on ...

1. Introduction 1.1 Background Information The exponential growth of data sources, as well as the need to obtain valuable information from huge volumes, paved the advent of the business analytics. Keim et al. (2008) defined business analytics (BA) as an application of multiple analytic methods that address the big data diversity (structured and unstructured) to generate estimative results and to yield actionable descriptive and predictive results. It uses the technique of data visualization as well as predictive modelling tools to produce analysis and algorithms that enable businesses to make an informed decision (Van, Arnold and Campbell, 2012). In general, ...

Information System Infrastructure in Smart City

Introduction An appropriately and suitably modeled information system is established in a coherent framework that aids responsive transformations. As a result, an organization's agility as a new enterprise or administrative programs comes up [3]. An information system refers to an integrated series of elements that aid in the collection, storage and processing information to enable data, knowledge and digital products. Various companies such as Alibaba, business to business marketplace, Amazon, the global online market, eBay and much use the concept of information systems. Considered the information system infrastructure, the framework is composed of key networks of telecommunication, databases and ...

The operational impact that Macy has created with their innovative and pioneer Omni channel strategy with a key focus on the E-Commerce and M-Commerce, the company has a central online fulfillment center, and the primary premise of Macy’s is to create a brand experience for the customers that is personalized and localized (Rijmenam). Customer needs are the at the center of all the operational decision making at Macy’s and in this age of technological advanced customers the insights generated by the company through Big Data has helped Macy’s carve a leading niche, by combining all data ...

INTRODUCTION

Fatal car accidents are going to disappear in a few years because the zero-death car may be invented. In the article ”Volvo Works to Scale ‘Death-Proof’ Car Effort Using IT,” writer by Kim S. Nash indicates that the future plan of Volvo is to make sure that all of their vehicles that travel on the road never cause fatal accidents, and what efforts Volvo is making to reach that goal. Nash shows why this innovation is important and describes in detail just what Volvo is doing. Nash tries to tell the readers about this death-proof car by just giving ...

INTRODUCTION

Fatal car accidents are going to disappear in few years because the zero-death car may be invented. In the article ”Volvo Works to Scale ‘Death-Proof’ Car Effort Using IT,” writer Bykim S. Nash indicates that the future plan of Volvo is making their all products that runs on the road never cause fatal car accidents, and how Volvo makes an effort to reach to the goal. Nash shows why this innovation is important and details of what Volvo is doing. Nash tries to tell the readers about a death-proof car with just giving some informations. He uses logos and ...

Eat and Exercise for Credit!

Justification, Background and Target Population The problem of obesity and overall fitness in The United States is growing more and more hopeless. Furthermore, college students are often too busy to participate in extracurricular activities. In order to change this sedentary way of college life, eating junk food and not exercising it off, each student will be required to take six classes that help teach them how to get quick workouts in. Students will also learn ways of healthy eating that are no harder to prepare than the junk food they have been eating At the beginning of each semester ...

Abstract

Amazon is an online retail store that has manged to enhance its market situation value the use of big data. It is this large data at its disposal that normally help the management to assess the tastes and preferences of the potential customers. The same framework helps in the forecasting and decision making. There are three sets of problems that are discussed in this context. The first problem is concerned with the exploration of the survival aspects of the company in the wake of increased competition. The motivation is to asses how the management of Amazon can cope in ...

In this age of globalization and technological advancement and the advent and unprecedented success of the social media, to be able to connect with the prospective customers and most importantly to be able to segment the right customers, is the key for a business to be able to sustain, maintain and grow as an entity. In an article by John Rampton, a regular contributor on the Forbes website, elaborated on the significance of how better data has become an important marketing tool to be able to do segmentation in an effective manner, and allowing the marketers to analyze each ...

Introduction

Flipkart is an e-commerce company which was founded on 5th September in 2007 by Binny Bansal and Sachin Bansal. The firm is headquartered in Bangalore, India and employs approximately 33,000 people. The firm was started with an initial investment of INR 4 lakh or $6,000. In a manner of few years, the Flipkart business model became a successful one and transformed the form into one of India’s most successful and prosperous e-commerce firm. Flipkart was initially launched as a simple website to be used for price comparison, but then it took the shape of an e-commerce ...

The Standard Deviation (s or σ) and Coefficient of Variation (CV) are two commonly used measures of dispersion for data sets. Each one has different applications for their relative strengths. Based on the nature of data, the comparison or inference to be obtained, or the control standards to be set, either one should be applied.

Standard Deviation

The standard deviation is one of the most commonly used statistics; its key advantages are that is measured in the same units as the data, it is important in the maintenance of limits and testing, and that it is scale neutral. The standard deviation is ...

The Tesla Model 3 is all electric, four –door compact sedan, which is designed and manufactured by the Tesla Motors. The model was introduced into the market on 31st March 2016. Initial production, as well as deliveries, are planned to occur at the end of 2017 (Teslamotors.com). Tesla Motors plans to sell this model in a couple of markets, such as Brazil, India, South Korea, Singapore, Ireland, and South Africa. The major specifications that the model is expected to have include supercharging capability, rear wheel drive, rear and front trucks, and a minimum of 215 miles range (Gold). Tesla ...

Introduction 3

Methods of accessing digital data 3 Digital Marketing Analytics 4 Social Media Marketing 5 Search Engine Optimization (SEO) 6 3D Printing 7 Customer relations 8 Customer Loyalty 8 Customer Acquisition 9 Customer retention 10 Conclusion 12

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Digital Marketing Introduction Digital marketing is a method which corporates, individuals or even governments and other agencies can use in order to get various product information to reach the customer. It improves the number of individuals and widens the market scope. Digital marketing happens mostly on an online platform where the customer is able to give prompt feedback to the marketer, whether voluntarily ...

The health Information Technology enables the management of health records using a data management system. Database management is a system used by the health users and programmers to retrieve, store and update health information for the patients. The system helps in managing information unlike the use of manual paperwork procedures. The health information is stored in the form of data sets which are defined as groups of related information. Data elements are defined in the data sets by attributes or specific values (Ozkarahan, 1990). The data elements in a health information system may include information such as the name, ...

Big Data is a huge amount of data that is put together and checked to help companies make better decisions. Big Data is becoming the basis of rivalry for businesses, improving production and forming substantial worth for the country’s economics by eliminating leftover and growing the worth of goods. All businesses need to pay attention to Big Data because it has the potential to create value in competition. Reputable competitors and new entrants will leverage data-driven strategies to innovate. Big Data will help to create new growth opportunities and new categories of companies that aggregate and analyze industry ...

Article reviews

Article reviews 5 Big Data Technology Predictions Olavsrud, T. (2014). 5 Big Data technology predictions for 2015. Retrieved 25 March 2016 from http://www.cio.com/article/2862014/big-data/5-big-data-technology-predictions-for-2015.html

Article overview

The article by Olavsrud (2014) is dedicated to five major trends in the field of big data technologies. Before investigating the trends, Olavsrud (2014) claims that new big data initiatives continually move from test to production, especially in cases it can be used in the real time. The first development, mentioned in the article under study, is that the data agility becomes a key focus of big data technologies, because usual databases and data warehouses are ...

BIG DATA: Can Google Use Big Data to Create Personal Assistant?

Abstract This paper will investigate the concept of Big Data and how this can be used by Google to create a personal assistant with more powerful features. Big data simply refers to the huge loads of data collected from the internet and other social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Amazon, MySpace and several others. Innovations that employ big data to create personal assistants are not new in the technology sphere. Yet there are several problems with the use of Big Data such as information security which can affect the privacy and safety of the users and companies ...

Measuring Campaign Effectiveness

The importance of proper coordination between the sales and marketing functions of any organization is a matter whose importance cannot be overemphasized. Although both functions are geared towards maximizing sales and profits, improper coordination often leads to wastage of resources as the sales agents chase leads of low quality, delay the follow-up of leads or dedicate insufficient selling effort towards high potential leads generated by the marketing team. The selling units, on the other hand, more often accuse the marketing team of generating low-quality leads. This situation necessitates the need for an Integrated Marketing Communications Framework (Clow & Baak 2004). ...

Introduction

Tesco is the leading supermarket in United Kingdom, and is the dominant company to realize endless benefits of large data analytics. It supplies customers nationally with groceries and a huge range of diverse services. From the start of mid 990s, Tesco launched own loyalty program having Clubcard. Several competitors used identical cards as a way to get target coupons and discounts. Nevertheless, Tesco discovered the importance of insight it would provide into its consumer’s behavior patterns. The company commenced processing the large flood of data originating in from these cards, and managed to better target mailings of coupons ...

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Q1: What are the transport protocols used in the following applications? (Be sure to describe/explain the protocol) (10 points)

Simple connection-oriented streaming voice/video without control for pause, stop, resume, forward, backward, Real Time Transport Control Protocol delivers video and audio over IP networks and is designed for end-to-end real time transmission of media data.

Unreliable, no handshaking, no ordering, no retransmission of data

UDP User Datagram Protocol provides a mechanism that is connectionless and without handshakes. SS7 transport The standard transport protocol for Signaling System 7 (SS7) over the Internet is SIGTRAN. A gateway transforms SS7 signals into ...