Reference no: EM132322609

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 either:

• A 3- to 4-page technical summary in Microsoft Word

• A 14- to 16-slide multimedia-rich presentation with detailed speaker notes.