Week 6

WEEK 6

Lecture 
In this lecture, the main topic is about " cloud computing and relational databases."
I have learnt the importance of of a few main point about cloud computing and it is called: software as a service, e.g. web-service model. Web-service model is the one aspect of computing which supports and manage the information system part. Web-service model helps all kind of businesses processes. 

Another one is known as  utility computing. This aspect basically is the organising of any information data a company have. However, obtaining this function is based on subscription basis.


Seminar

In the seminar, our group have discussed regarding the group presentation. The progress at where we are with our group task.
We discussed how we structured our MIS presentation. Which we are now on the process of finalising our presentation. However, we still have to make some follow up interview to the chosen business to get additional information regarding limitations in relation to rules and regulations of different countries such as Pakistan, where they also have a business there.
In our group meeting at the seminar, I have learned that this group task will have to be downloaded to  YouTube.
Now, we are on the process of allocating time for practice session. ]

We also have been given a handout entitled: The Lookup & VLookup functions.
In this exercise, we have to create data in excel. With this handout, it shows me how to find data in excel such as if I want to look certain information e.g. a name of a product or item number.
Lookup function is used to search data or find data in excel.