Impacts of
developments in
computing on an
organisation
ASSIGNMENT 1
, Table of Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................4
Hardware and software developments.................................................................................................4
Focus on mobile rather than desktop computing..............................................................................4
Maintaining or improving the competitive edge...............................................................................5
Regular upgrading of hardware to take advantage of more sophisticated software and improved
energy management..........................................................................................................................5
Developments in cloud and hybrid cloud technologies.....................................................................6
Changing markets and new opportunities.............................................................................................6
Decline in some traditional markets and developments in others....................................................6
Organisations and business developing and changing new markets and opportunities....................6
Balancing growth in some areas against decline in others................................................................7
Potential provided by developments in IT for cost reductions..........................................................7
Opportunities and challenges presented by ‘big data’......................................................................7
Emerging technologies..........................................................................................................................7
Internet of things (IOT)..........................................................................................................................7
Increasing integration and sophistication of applications..................................................................8
Increasing automation e.g., robotics, exoskeletons, rehabilitations robotics....................................8
Current developments.......................................................................................................................8
big data, data warehousing and data mining.........................................................................................8
Big data characteristics and features.................................................................................................8
Volume-the quantity of data delivered..............................................................................................9
Velocity-the speed of generation of data..........................................................................................9
Variety-the mixture of data to be processed.....................................................................................9
Storage...............................................................................................................................................9
Processing..........................................................................................................................................9
Data warehouse features......................................................................................................................9
Subject orientation............................................................................................................................9
Data denormalization........................................................................................................................9
Non-volatility.....................................................................................................................................9
Large amount of historical data.......................................................................................................10
Use of queries to retrieve large amounts of data............................................................................10
Controlling of data loads..................................................................................................................10
Data mining.........................................................................................................................................10
Cluster analysis................................................................................................................................10
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