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The document provides an assignment prompt for students taking an MBA course on Information Processing Management. The assignment asks students to analyze a business scenario for the fictional ABC Corporation, which is developing a database management system to store product, customer, and sales data. Students are instructed to discuss how a DBMS allows centralized data access and management for businesses. They should also analyze ABC Corporation's needs and recommend how a DBMS could help the startup company efficiently collect, store, and use business data to grow operations.

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IPM Individual Assignment

The document provides an assignment prompt for students taking an MBA course on Information Processing Management. The assignment asks students to analyze a business scenario for the fictional ABC Corporation, which is developing a database management system to store product, customer, and sales data. Students are instructed to discuss how a DBMS allows centralized data access and management for businesses. They should also analyze ABC Corporation's needs and recommend how a DBMS could help the startup company efficiently collect, store, and use business data to grow operations.

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Microlink Information Techonology and Business College

Postgraduate Program (MBA)

Course Name: Information Processing Management

Assessment Type: Individual Assignment (50%)

Name of Instructor: Dr. Kahsu Mebrahtu Areaya (Assistant Professor)

Instruction: Attempt All of the Following Questions

1. For this assignment, each student will submit an analysis of the business scenario for the
ABC Corporation. The ABC corporation business scenario is based on a fictitious
company that is developing a database management system (DBMS) for storage of
product, customer, and sales data. Audience: upper-level business students.

Project Prompts

The ABC corporation business scenario provides a foundation in which to examine the
components of a database management system (DBMS), development of a system for
business purposes and data collection, manipulation, and storage. The ABC corporation
analysis should discuss the use of database management systems in business and examine
how a DBMS presents a centralized view of data that can be accessed by multiple users.
The written essay should be a minimum of 1,000 words in length and follow the APA
formatting standards.

Business Scenario

The ABC corporation is a newly established company and the owner is looking for an
efficient method of collecting, storing, and manipulating data. The corporation offers a
variety of pet supplies and is initially a retailer that is currently selling products only
online. As the corporation grows, it plans to also include physical retail locations in
which to add services to the company's offerings.

As a startup business, the ABC Corporation needs to implement a database management


system to allow the collection and sharing of business data among the employees; thus,
the database management system should allow for multiple users. The corporation is

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currently gathering information about database management systems and seeking a
contractor to create and implement the system. Business data will be organized in a
logical manner and will be retrieved using a client-server network.

In your analysis provide the ABC Corporation with information on database management
systems and a recommendation from a contractor's perspective. Information you are
providing the ABC Corporation should include the following:

 Provide a definition of a database management system (DBMS) and discuss the


purpose(s) in business.
 Introduce the business scenario to analyze and discuss the benefits of
implementing a database management system.
 Describe what business data the company would benefit from collecting and
manipulating.
 Explain how a company uses a database management system to manage data
collection, manipulate data and realize benefits from usage of a database
management system.
 Discuss the components of a DBMS and the process of developing a DBMS for
implementation.
 Discuss why companies utilize various systems for domestic and global business
functions.

2. What are the three most important factors you would use in evaluating computer
hardware? Computer software?
3. What are your major concerns about computer crime and privacy on the Internet? What
can you do about it? Explain.
4. What potential security problems do you see in the increasing use of intranets and
extranets in business? What might be done to solve such problems? Give several
examples.
5. How are Internet technologies affecting the structure and work roles of modern organizations?
For example, will middle management wither away? Will companies consist primarily of self-
directed project teams of knowledge workers? Explain your answers.

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