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You are required to do an individual assignment with a scenario involving the design, implementation and testing of a prototype static website to meet the specified requirements, plus documentation of the design implementation and testing. We recommend you follow the given tasks below for better assignment structure and presentation.

Background:
Event management relies heavily on promoting their businesses online. To do so, they need to research the customers and ways to encourage them to come to these events.

Events could be entertainment events (such as musicals and gigs), could be academic events such as conferences, sports events such as football games, or commercial events such as exhibitions. Pick a theme and write a case study for it.

Task 1 - The Case Study:
Present your case study based on the topic presented above. (300 words) (5 marks)

Task 2- Background Research:
Review at least ten websites promoting businesses similar to your case study. Reflect on the design, usability, features (functionality) and accessibility of these websites.You may present your findings in a summarised tabular format. (600 words) (15 marks)

Task 3- Web Planning:
Using a defined approach to modelling, present a plan for your website to include design, usability, functionality, and accessibility features. Your plans should separate design specification from content. (700 words) (20 marks)

Task 4- Web Design:
Based on your findings in tasks 2 and 3, make your web technologies recommendations including choice of URL, service provider, and method of implementation  (400 words) (10 marks)

Task 5- Implementation and Testing:
Implement your website and provide testing logs. You should provide screenshots of every page with an explanation of any design, usability, functionality, and accessibility features included. (600 words) (40 marks)

Task 6- Optimisation:
Suggest ways to optimise your website using search engines, mobile accessibility, advertising revenues, and local exposure. (400 words) (10 marks)

The word limits are just a suggestion for word distributions. You are free to change
this distribution provided your overall does not exceed 3000 words.

Scenario:

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems are widely-implemented strategy for managing a company's interactions with customers, clients and sales prospects. They involve using technology to organize, automate, and synchronize business processes-principally sales activities, but also those for marketing, customer service, and technical support. The overall goals are to find, attract, and win new clients, nurture and retain those the company already has, entice former clients back into the fold, and reduce the costs of marketing and client service. CRM systems describe a company-wide business strategy including customer-interface departments as well as other departments. They include a one-to-one relationship between a customer and a seller and also help keep profitable customers and maximize lifetime revenue from them. Using CRM systems, Amazon.com, Inc. can provide better customer service thus enhances the relationship between the customer and the organization. It also Increases customer revenues, discovers new customers and helps employees to gain an understanding to the customer and anticipate their purchases.

Task 1 (LOs 1, 2 – 1200 words)
Select two different functional areas of Amazon.com, Inc. based on the above scenario and carry out research to answer the following:
a) Explain and justify the information needs of the two selected functional areas. Ensure you include issues such as the inputs required, outputs generated and processing activities undertaken for each functional area.(20 Marks)
b) Compare and contrast the information systems specified in the scenario that the two structural and functional areas could make use of to manage the information that they use.(20 Marks)

Task 2 (LOs 3, 4 – 1200 words)
a) Identify and explain how the information systems are used in one of the functional areas selected in Task 1 to produce management information at middle and senior management levels of the business.(20 Marks)
b) List and comment on the key technical details of the information systems and the business considerations to middle and senior managements of the business.(20 Marks)

Task 3 (LO 5 – 600 words)
Identify and explain the social and ethical issues are linked to the information systems of the business. Does the organisation have a mission, vision and value statement? If so, what is their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy?
(20 Marks)

You should conclude with a summary to tie the key points together with any appropriate recommendations supported by evidence and references. An appendix can be used if needed to provide any relevant data (e.g. screen grabs of websites with source web address).

Lookup a specific vendor's specifications for random-access memory and report the memory access time, cache access time, and cache hit rate (and any other data the vendor provides). Make sure to include the vendor’s information including the URL.

Q1. In your own words, why is Japan's workforce shrinking? One person stated that video games are more relevant to him than human interaction and sex. Why do you think that has happened?

Q2. Would you be comfortable checking into that crazy hotel that has no human staff? Why do you think one of the robots has the head of a dinosaur?

Q3. Let us contrast PARO, the robot pet versus a natural pet dog or cat. List at least two disadvantages of the biological pet. List at list one advantage of the biological pet. What do you think PARO's advantages and disadvantages are?

Q4. Would you date an emotionally aware and attractive humanoid? Could you picture a humanoid as the perfect spouse?

Q1. Are these robots battles a good use of robot artificial intelligence? Do you think mercy can be built into the software?

Q2. Which one of these robots which you buy for yourself?

Q3. If you buy a robot to help you raise your kids, do you think this will raise 'better – more secure' kids?

Q4. If you walked into a business as a customer, would you rather interact with a human or a robot? What are the advantages of each?

Find a article online from the article topics and analyzing in the following way:

1. Why the article were chosen?
2. What are the major issues discussed in the articles related to data analytics?
3. How data analytics was applied?
4. Any advantage of using data analytics in the particular applications mentioned in the articles compared to traditional method?
5. Any other issue you would like to discuss from the articles

Article topics:

1. Different database models
2. ERP
3. Clustering model in descriptive models
4. Predictive models
5. ETL process
6. How ACL being used in the articles.

The title of the assessment is:

A comparison between the security performance of the iOS and Android operating systems.

Produce a report of 1500 words (+-10%)

The following are excluded from the word count: the title; the accreditation (i.e. your name & institutional affiliation); the abstract; any tabulated text or data (i.e. text or data that appears within tables); any figures and text therein; the reference list; any appendices; the entire ethical approval form.

You should adopt the Harvard style of referencing and a reference list/bibliography should be included.

Include the following:

Part 2:

Overview

For this assignment you'll need to explore specific measure to harden Web browsers. You will also have an opportunity to revisit the virtual lab environment to modify the TCP port number used for http traffic.

Preparation

Use the Internet or the Capella University Library to research:

• Hardening recommendations for your chosen Internet browser.
• Uses for port 8080 in Windows Server 2016 IIS.

·  Explain why there are so few steps to securing a default installation of Internet Information Services (IIS) in Windows Server 2016 as compared with legacy systems.

·  Recommend three hardening measures to improve the security of your chosen Internet browser.

·  Return to the unit lab, "Securing Internet Client and Server Applications on Windows Systems," and do the following:

• In IIS, change the default port number for the Default Web Page from 80 to 8080. Take a screenshot showing the change, and explain its implications. (I will complete the lab part)

Part 1:

Discussion: (2 references)

Windows Zero Day Attack

Consider your own personal or professional experience, or other exploration, of making a Microsoft Windows computer more secure. Discuss each of the following:

• Specific methods or steps that you have taken to harden a Windows computer.
• A recent news story, or career anecdote, regarding a zero-day exploit against Windows.
• Recommended actions to repel or mitigate a zero-day attack.

Part 2: (discussion) 2 references

Host-Based and Network-Based Firewall Deployment

Enterprises of all sizes need to secure proprietary, regulated, or mission-critical data on networked servers, workstations, and other devices that are connected to the Internet. Consider your own personal or professional experience, or other exploration, of using or administering firewall systems.

Discuss the following:

• Advantages and disadvantages of host-based firewalls.
• Advantages and disadvantages of network-based firewalls.
• Describe a situation where a combination of both host-based and network-based solutions may be well worth the expense, administrative overhead, and added network design complexity.

Response Guidelines

Read the posts of your peers and respond to two (minimum) and expand on the concepts covered in their initial post. The quantity and quality of your posts will determine the value of the group's learning experience. Provide a substantive and appropriate response.

Reply 1: (1 reference)

Reply 2: (1 reference)