A prestigious university has
recently implemented a consolidation strategy that will require it to
centralize their student records. In order to move forward, the local
university will need to develop a data model that will retain student records
and perform various data extract transform and load (ETL) processes. Imagine
that you have been hired as a database consultant to assist in the development
of a data design strategy for the student records.
You met with various
university subject matter experts and have determined the following after
performing various business analysis processes:
·
Faculty groups are divided by
core competencies that the university offers. For example, there are groups
such as the Art Faculty, Computer Technology Faculty, Language Faculty, and
Science Faculty. Each faculty member has an assigned Dean and is designated to
teach at one particular campus and school. They are able to teach as many
courses as required.
·
Courses are categorized by
course code and title. Certain courses have prerequisites and the university
has asked for this to be cataloged as well.
·
There are various schools
within each campus. For example, the Los Angeles campus holds the following
schools: School of Science, School of Law, and School of Computer Technology.
Additionally, each school offers different professional study programs such as
Forensic Computer Science, Marine Biology, Business Management, and Civil
Engineering to name a few.
·
The study path for students
requires that they be enrolled in a specific professional study program. The
professional study program requires the students to complete a specific set of
core courses. The university also requires that an online grade book be
available. The online grade book should show grades awarded to students for
specific courses and the term they completed the course.
·
The university identifies each
student by his or her name, date of birth, social, and professional study
program.
Using these findings, write a
three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:
1.
Analyze the university’s
requirements and provide a proposal to organize all the required data elements.
The proposal should include the following:
1.
Provide an Entity Relationship
Model (ERM) that will describe the data structure that will store all data elements.Note: The graphically depicted solution is not
included in the required page length.
2.
Describe any assumptions or
limitations for each relationship. For example, professors are able to teach
more than one course or students can only be enrolled in one program.
2.
Create the primary key and
foreign keys using a UML Class diagram for each table.
3.
Suggest at least four (4)
types of business intelligence reports that could help the university in course
management, student enrollment, or historical tracking. Support your answer by
providing specific business functions that these reports could assist
executives of the university.
4.
As an alternative for
development of the database, you are considering outsourcing the functions
above. Research the Internet and other media sources for vendors who develop
registrar and school management database systems.
1.
Suggest three (3) vendors that
developed and are employing efficient registrar and school management database
systems and support your reasons to choose from one (1) of these three (3)
vendors.
2.
Compare and contrast the key
aspects that each system offers. Examples of system aspects include but not
limited to cloud based, pricing model, open source, etc.
5.
Use at least three (3) quality
resources in this assignment.Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.
