Reference no: EM132346010
Assignment: Your organization uses Microsoft Excel to maintain its inventory. The company is growing rapidly and has reached the point where an inventory database is needed.
Your organization's database needs include the following:
• Multiple departments will require access to the database, including e-Commerce, manufacturing, sales, and customer service
• Employees will use the database to:
• Enter data
• Reference data
• Use data to auto-populate new orders and customer service records
• Analyze data and create reports
Recommend three of the following six database architecture types that would work for your organization:
• Hierarchical
• Network
• Relational
• Distributed Relational
• Object-Oriented
• Cloud
Include the following in your recommendation:
• Your top three recommended architectures, in order, using the number 1 as your best recommendation
• Your rationale for recommending each architecture
• The characteristics that make each architecture a top recommendation
• The current usage trends of these architectures in the industry and how it affected your recommendation for each
• Potential concerns or disadvantages of each architecture
• Summary of reasons for not recommending the remaining three architectures
• Citations for any graphics, images, video, or audio used
Create your recommendation as:
• A 3- to 4-page technical summary in Microsoft Word.