Managing Assets and Resources in the Digital Firm - Discussion
Tools and Technologies for Accessing Information
1. Choose any business role that you are familiar with, such as Sales Manager, Customer Service Representative, Chief Financial Officer. What information is required to do the job effectively, and where does it come from? How real-time does the information need to be for it to be useful to the user?
2. What is the structure of a typical relational database? How do primary and foreign keys help structure the data, and how does SQL work? What are current developments in NoSQL databases, and when would they be a viable alternative?