Lauren Boccella

“Cloud computing refers to the delivery of computing services over a proprietary network or the Internet. Those services mainly include infrastructure (i.e. servers, storage devices, etc.), development platforms, and software applications. The Cloud refers to the many data centers located throughout the world that house the hardware necessary to o…[Read more]

The organization I work for is looking to provide Management Information to various business leaders that will help to redefine the company’s sales payment scheme, and to develop rules around workforce planning. The challenge is “marrying” the finance data (sales and profit numbers) with HR & Payroll data. This information will be used to gain…[Read more]

One of the things that became more evident to me while preparing for the exam was the scope of versatility of the various diagrams from the unit. The swim lane diagrams are specifically versatile, and their ability to convey (sometimes) complex processes in a streamlined, understandable visual is very valuable. I also found that the decision tree…[Read more]

As we saw in class last week, both the Swim Lane Diagrams and the Entity Relationship Diagrams can be used in tandem to demonstrate, clarify, establish and improve processes. After working through our group “cake” exercise together, and using these two diagrams, I believe that both can be equally beneficial depending on the process/result the use…[Read more]

I thought it was very interesting that despite the total world population being 7.3 billion, there are only +3 billion using the internet. Granted that a portion of the total population is too young to begin using technologies yet, this number still seemed surprisingly low to me… so I thought I’d do some digging ;). According to an article fro…[Read more]