MGCR 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Unified Modeling Language, Mysql, Requirements Analysis
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Session (cid:1005)5 data asset (cid:894)part (cid:1005)(cid:895) // oct. (cid:1006)8. Total cost of ownership (tco): tech costs go way beyond the price tag, total cost of ownership (tco): all costs associated with the design, development, testing, implementation, documentation, training & maintenance of a software system e. g. Condo, utilities, furniture, taxes, etc: different cost categories that compromise total cost of ownership: Business intelligence: data warehouse and data mining: previously too costly to store & process transaction data is now useful for management decision making, data mining is the process of automatically extracting valid, useful, previously unknown. & ultimately comprehensible information from large databases & using it to make crucial business decisions. Example: a large retailer with 100,000 products (skus) & hundreds of branches. Sales are tracked by time of day & linked to spending by individual customers. E. g. of analysis: spot that some regions have not accepted new products as fast as others.