You are advising a college Principal on how to proceed with the provision of IT services. You know that the college already has working finance and student record systems and that both of these systems are relational transaction processing systems. You also know that the Principal is concerned about issues such as consistency of reports and figures, suspect data, uncertainty about how to analyse data. You also know that the Principal is wholly unconcerned with the general mass of data collected and "just wants to have the "important" things pointed out.

 

Produce a brief (no more than 800 words) report outlining your recommendation and justify your choices (what would you take into consideration). Fully reference any resources you use.