Write a 2000-word report on alternative and complementary technologies to be used in the
deployment of the database implementation from Assessment 1, in order to fully exploit the
corporate data assets. Security, ethical and legal issues should also be considered.
Specifically, you should address the following technical areas:
1. Data Warehousing and the difference between operational and strategic data sets
2. Data Mining and OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing) compared with OLTP
Systems
3. The rise of ‘Big Data’ and its applications
4. ‘NoSQL’ databases as compared with ‘ACID-compliant’ databases
5. The impact of the ‘Open Data’ movement


