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IT Infrastructure
IT Infrastructure
Network databases.
Relational databases.
Object-oriented databases
USING DATABASES TO IMPROVE BUSINESS PERFORMANCE
AND DECISION-MAKING
Businesses use their databases to:
Keep track of basic transactions
Provide information that will help the company run the business more efficiently
Help managers and employees make better decisions
In a large company, special capabilities and tools are required for analyzing vast
quantities of data and for accessing data from multiple systems, such as:
Data warehouse: a database that stores current and historical data from core
operational transactional systems for use in management analysis, but this data
cannot be altered.
Data mart: A subset of a data warehouse in which a summarized or highly focused
portion of the organization's data is placed in a separate database for a specific
population of users.
Business intelligence (BI) tools: Data analysis tools used for consolidating,
analyzing, and accessing vast stores of data to help in decision making, such as
software for database query and reporting, tools for multidimensional data analysis
(online analytical processing), and data mining.
Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) supports multidimensional data analysis,
enabling users to view the same data in different ways using multiple dimensions
Data mining finds hidden patterns and relationships and infers rules from these to
predict future behavior. The types of information obtainable from data mining include
•Associations
•Sequences
•Classifications
•Clustering
•Forecasting
Predictive analysis uses data mining techniques, historical data, and assumptions
about future conditions to predict outcomes of events, such as the probability a customer will
respond to an offer or purchase a specific product.
TYPES OF NETWORK
Common examples of area
network types are:
LAN - Local Area Network
WLAN - Wireless Local Area
Network
WAN - Wide Area Network
MAN - Metropolitan Area
Network
SAN - Storage Area Network,
System Area Network, Server
Area Network, or sometimes
Small Area Network
CAN - Campus Area Network,
Controller Area Network, or
sometimes Cluster Area
Network
PAN - Personal Area Network
DAN - Desk Area Network
WHAT IS TRANSMISSION MEDIA ?
TRANSMISSION MEDIA IS A PATHWAY THAT CARRIES THE
INFORMATION FROM SENDER TO RECEIVER. WE USE DIFFERENT
TYPES OF CABLES OR WAVES TO TRANSMIT DATA. DATA IS
TRANSMITTED NORMALLY THROUGH ELECTRICAL OR
ELECTROMAGNETIC SIGNALS.