The company goal is to full-fill any size of the consignment to any country. Currently, Fast Forwarding is using an in-house management system to support customer 24/7 throughout the globe.
computer science
Description
Developments in database technologies.
Scenario:
Fast Forwarding Ltd. is a global freight forwarding company based in the UK for over 50 years. The company offers worldwide freight service including land, sea and air from the offices in Asia, Europe and North America. The company has over 100 logistic partners through its own offices and agencies. They ship thousands of containers per annum throughout the globe.
The company goal is to full-fill any size of the consignment to any country. Currently, Fast Forwarding is using an in-house management system to support customer 24/7 throughout the globe. The company also use multiple software components such as databases, track and trace and payment systems, from third parties. As the business growing every year, the company produces a high volume of data, which needs to be managed efficient manner. The management has decided to improve the existing management system and build a modern information management system to meet the future goal of the company. The proposed system requires the following functionalities.
•To be adaptable to the growth of the company
•To have appropriate database system to meet the expansion plan of the company
•To have modern database systems that are scalable and capable of storing various types of data
•To visualise the system performance
•To have the solution to handle various types of databases systems
•Customer must be able to track and trace their consignments
Project Task: Emerging database technologies
The company want to deploy a better database system to adapt to the current trend of technology to provide better service to their customer. So, they want to identify the current trend and emerging database technologies to apply in their future information system.
The project team need a whitepaper on current and emerging database technologies. Evaluate new and emerging database technologies to meet the company’s current and future needs. The aim of the paper should inform the project team (mostly technical personnel) of Fast Forwarding Ltd about various current and emerging database technologies.
The whitepaper should have a word count of 2500 words and at least 6 references of which 3 should be relevant peer-reviewed journal/ conference papers.
