Determining Databases and Data Communications

If I were a marketing assistant for a consumer electronic company and I had to set-up my company’s booth at the tradeshow. I would be need to be extremely detailed in packing up equipment and components. The cost of this technology is extremely expensive and it is my responsibility and my job on the line. When technology companies do tradeshows there are a wide variety of equipment and components that need to be set-up. The types of equipment I may be taking with me to set-up for the tradeshow is laptops, cell phones, projectors, and an iPad or tablet. I would need other things such as a/c adapters, chargers, microphones, and cameras. Kroenke (Managing Quality: Integrating the Supply Chain,) stated, “Some of the output hardware consists of video displays, printers, audio speakers, overhead projectors, and other special-purpose devices, such as large flatbed plotters.” These items may be needed to set-up the tradeshow for my company. For this list of equipment I do not feel that an expensive database is needed, when Excel can organize and keep track of the equipment that is coming and going from my company. If the Excel template is set-up properly, updated, and inventoried regularly it will be sufficient to handle the data.

The main advantage of using a database over an Excel is the fact that there is no need to format the information into a table. Databases also have the ability to pull reports that making it a bit less tedious than using a spreadsheet. (Stille, 1997-2009). The good part of using Excel is that it is transferable through a thumb drive, email, or the cloud. It can be used, updated, and taken anywhere. Databases are not as transferable as Excel spreadsheets are and that may cause a problem because it may not be able to be updated right away. Rouse (2007-2014), “A decision support system is a computer program application that analyzes business data and presents it so that users can make business decisions more easily”. This could help the company make a quick decision of what would be the best route to take with the data that the company needs to store about their expensive equipment. Scenario 2: As the manager of seven employees that work either remotely or from the office I need to ensure that my employees can work from their laptops and access their work from anywhere. I would ensure that my company employees connect