Question 1

You have been hired by a national furniture leasing company to implement its first business intelligence systems and infrastructure. To prepare for your initial report, describe the types of data in their firm they can use to support business intelligence and the systems that you will implement to support both their power users and casual users, and explain how these systems or tools work together.

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Question 2

What makes data mining an important business tool? What types of information does data mining produce? In what type of circumstance would you advise a company to use data mining?

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Question 3

When you design the new contracts database for the publishing house mentioned above, what fields do you anticipate needing? Which of these fields might be in use in other databases used by the company?

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Question 4

What are the differences between data mining and OLAP? When would you advise a company to use OLAP?

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Question 5

Describe the ways in which database technologies could be used by a toy manufacturer to achieve product differentiation.

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Question 6

Describe the ways in which database technologies could be used by an office stationery supply company to achieve low-cost leadership.

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Question 7

List and describe three main capabilities or tools of a DBMS.

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Question 8

Identify and describe three basic operations used to extract useful sets of data from a relational database.

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Question 9

The small publishing company you work for wants to create a new database for storing information about all of their author contracts. What factors will influence how you design the database?

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Question 10

List at least three conditions that contribute to data redundancy and inconsistency.

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Quiz 6: Foundations of Business Intelligence: Databases and Information Management