Assignmment:
1. Analyze the university's requirements and provide a proposal to organize all the required data elements. The proposal should include the following:
- Provide an entity relationship model (ERM) that will describe the data structure that will store all data elements.
- Describe any assumptions or limitations for each relationship. For example, professors are able to teach more than one course, or students can only be enrolled in one program.
2. Create the primary key and foreign keys using a UML class diagram for each table.
3. Suggest at least four types of business intelligence reports that could help the university in course management, student enrollment, or historical tracking. Support your answer by providing specific business functions that these reports could be used for to assist executives of the university.
4. Consider outsourcing the functions above as an alternative for development of the database. Research the Internet and other media sources for vendors who develop registrar and school management database systems.
- Suggest three vendors that developed and are employing efficient registrar and school management database systems and support your reasons to choose from one of these three vendors.
- Compare and contrast the key aspects that each system offers. Examples of system aspects include but are not limited to cloud based, pricing model, open source, et cetera.