The scenario The senior management team of Carter University have just completed a five-year plan to implement university-wide computing systems to support all core business processes such as a student management information system, payroll and finance system, and resource management including class timetabling system. Accompanying this expansion in the use of computer systems has been a growing accumulation of transactional data about the university business processes, and senior management are aware that the information processing demands of the university have outgrown the legacy relational database management system (RDBMS) software resulting from both the data explosive growth and the variety of Read More …