Arden University - Technology in Organisations Report (COM0006NFBNM)

This report examines the crucial role of technology in modern organizations, using Arden University as a case study. It delves into the concept of big data, its applications within various departments, and the benefits it provides, such as improved student engagement and business expansion. The report also addresses IT security and privacy measures, including GDPR provisions, highlighting their importance in safeguarding sensitive information. Furthermore, it explores telecommunications, specifically cellular networks, their components, and functionality, as well as the application of spreadsheets in payroll departments. The report emphasizes the significance of technology in driving innovation, achieving business goals, and adapting to the changing needs of customers, ultimately illustrating how technology is indispensable for sustained success in today's competitive market.

Technology in
Organisations

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................................3
Q1. Explain the concept of big data and its role in the Arden University with examples of departments.
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B) Discuss various benefits achieved by Arden University after adopting big data.................................5
Q2. A) Explain various IT security and Privacy measures adopted by company. Also analysis provision
of GDPR..................................................................................................................................................6
Q3. Telecommunication and spread sheets..................................................................................................8
Discuss cellular network along with its principle components and also describe the way it works.........8
Determine payroll department of Weaning entertainment Ltd...............................................................10
CONCLUSION.........................................................................................................................................12
REFERNCES............................................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Technology has become a crucial part of business as it provides scope for bringing
innovative and advance products in market place which will further help in business growth and
success. Now, without applying technology, it is quiet difficult to run business and sustain in
current competitive market place for longer duration. It is important for meeting with changing
needs and requirements of customers in significant manner (Gupta and Singh, 2017). The report
aims to identify impact of technology over business and its operations. In the present report,
Arden University is considered which is a well known private university based on UK. It offers
variety of courses and educational services to students so that they can succeed in future career.
The report includes role of big data along with the advantage which university is getting due to
the use of this technique. It also includes impact of data processing measures along with the
provisions of GDPR in significant manner. Further, benefits and principal of cellular network has
also been included in the following report.
MAIN BODY
Q1. Explain the concept of big data and its role in the Arden University with examples of
departments.
Big data is a set of large volume of data which include both the structured and
unstructured data which are effectively used by an organisation to run its daily business
operations. This type of data will provide relevant information related to business to both public
and private organisation which help company to efficiently achieve their goal and also improve
the performance of an organisation. In relevance to the Arden University, it is analysis that the
organisation will effectively use big data which help selected company in its growth and
development because with the help of this large information, university is able to attract a large
number of students towards the university. For this reason selected university will maintain a
proper record of their students. It is analysis that selected university will face a huge amount of
competition in market and because of this it is very important for company to effectively use the
credentials. Arden University will need to use it in an effective and safe manner so that they can
achieve more benefits from it. It is state that if selected business wants to achieve its desire
objective than it needs to effectively analysis that how the big data will be used. Big data play an

essential role in any organisation whether it is private or public. In context of selected university,
big data play an essential role which is discussed below for better understanding:
Role of Big data in selected organisation
In context of selected organisation, the role of big data is very wider because university
will use the information at each step of its business activity so that they can efficiently achieve
the goal of organisation. For example- Arden University will use the data under the control of
law and with a professional motive. Effectively maintain the data and analyzing it will help
selected university to analysis the behavior and attitude of students towards their university or
education system. Better understanding the behavior of students will be possible through big data
and university is able to adopt effective strategy so that they can attract them towards their
education system (Al, and et. al. 2017).
 In context of selected university, it is analysis that big data play an essential role in
protecting and securing the private information of each and every student and employees
in a better way. Such as they use various types of tools and techniques which help
selected business to protect the information of each and every student which is only
possible through big data.
 Another essential role that big data play in an organisation is that it provide various
growth and development opportunity to business which provide a long term success to
selected business. In context of selected university, having a large information will also
increase their level of confidence as they are now able to explore new situation. Selected
university is able to effectively distribute the big data into various segments according to
the requirements (Ganda, 2019).
 Another important role that big data perform is in the marketing and finance department
of Arden University. There are various departments in university such as marketing,
finance, human resource department and so on but marketing and finance department will
efficiently use big data for performing their role and responsibility. The marketing
department of selected university will use this data for formulating the market plan and
analysis how much capital they will require for effectively carry out the various
marketing activity. While on the other hand, finance department of selected university
will use big data for presenting and interpretation. Other than this they use big data for

formulating an effective financial statement such as balance sheet, income and loss
account, cash flow statement, and so on.
From the above discussion it is analysis that big data play an essential role in the
development of an organisation and the business is also require to use this data under law
so that they will not face any kind of problem in the future. Other than this it is analysis
that big data will help business in taking correct action which assist organisation in
achieving their goal (Bozorova, and Ubaydullaeva, 2019).
B) Discuss various benefits achieved by Arden University after adopting big data
Arden University is consider as the top ranked universities in Landon. This is because of
their efficient teaching staff and advance learning facility. It also provide an effective job
package to their students. Selected university will expand their business activity in Germany
which help company in increasing their goodwill in education sector. For increasing their
information development center and reducing the level of competition selected university will
use various effective strategies. It is analysis that Arden University will achieve various benefits
after adopting the big data. In context of selected university these benefits are mention below:
 One of the biggest benefit of using big data in selected university is that they are able to
introduce various online teaching system which is easily adopted by the students and
which make the teaching process more easy and reliable. This step will make a unique
presence of university in the education sector. It is analysis that after adopting the big
data university is able to digital transformation at a wider level.
 Another important advantage of using big data in university is that it help selected
university to expand their business in another country and effectively offer better
education service to a wide range students It is examined that big data will help company
in effectively face the competition in education industry.
 With the help of bug data selected university is able to provide various employment
opportunity and to an individual and also provide effective training and development
programs in a best and effective way (Sepasgozar, and et. al. 2018).
 Another important benefit that selected university will achieve after adoption of big data
is that they are able to implement effective strategies which help them to reduce the level

of competition. It will make tem to introduce new or unique services in the educational
sector.
Q2. A) Explain various IT security and Privacy measures adopted by company. Also analysis
provision of GDPR
Both the It and technology sector play an essential role in an organisation as without it an
organisation is not able to operate its business activity. For protecting an organisation from
uncertain kind of risk and any challenging situation it is very important to adopt effective
security measures. In context of Arden University, they use various security measures which
help company in protecting their information and they are also aware about how and why their
information is being used. Selected business will make proper decision and according to it the
credentials are used (Mesgari, and Okoli, 2019).
In context of selected university, their technical department will effectively protecting the
whole information related to each and every person who is exist in the university. For effectively
protecting the information selected company will take timely decision related to the protection of
information. For denying the unauthorized access it’s very important to provide best security to
the big data. In context of selected university, they will require to conduct an effective research
before implementing the security and privacy measures so that any kind of issue will not occur.
The main focus of data security is to protect the personal data from the third party users. There
are various methods for protecting the personal data and maintain the privacy of data. It will
define that integrity of data is more accurate and easily available to the authorized parties.
Privacy information refers to a measurable product which define that how important
information related to an individual is being collected and used in an organisation. There are
various types of privacy measures which are mention below:
 Pre-hanoop validation- It refers to a process which main objective is to present the data
loading process in which company will effectively specify the privacy of data and
effectively observed and analysis with its user identity. While the other authorization
will also passed for the further process. In context of selected university, by effectively
considering this validation process they are able to analysis the time period for which
they can store the information.

 Endpoints- It is related to the enter points of a user device like desktop, laptop, and
smart phones that are used by user for various kind of activities. After developing the
security endpoints an organisation is able to protect its people information in a better
way and provide protection from the cyber security crimes (Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development, 2020).
From the above discussion it is analysis that selected company needs to effectively select a
privacy measure as it help organisation in providing protection to the personal information
and secure them for a long period of time. In context of Arden University, with the help of it
security organisation is able to protect its information from various kind of risk which are
related to internet.
Provisions of GDPR
GDP is a regarded as the regulation for general data protection which is applied on
citizens of EU with the motive to protect the personal data and information of citizens within
country. It is analyzed that companies which are working in UK need to follow the regulations
which are prepared by GDP in an efficient manner. By this way, it will be easy for them to use
the information related to customers in safe and secure way. In each and every business, there is
requirement to utilize personal credentials of people so that appropriate strategies can be
prepared. Here, this regulation is helpful for people of European countries in terms of protecting
their personal credentials with the use of big data techniques (Keeble and Wilkinson, 2017). In
addition to this, there are various small, medium as well as large enterprise which take references
of personal data of customers for business purpose. For this purpose, different provisions are
mentioned as under:
Right to access: This provision is related to use the personal information of individual
with the proper consent. It is analyzed that privacy is highly matter for a person so it is important
to take their consent before using the personal credentials of customers. With this, individuals
will get to know about the way in which their personal information and data is being used by
organization.
Right to rectification: It is analyzed that this provision provides right to individual for
rectifying the information of which is being utilized by companies in an efficient manner. It is

stated that enterprise often use personal data of customers for their own reasons so this provision
provides necessary right in terms of making modification in existing information significantly.
Right to be forgotten: It provides right to individual that they can claim for removing
their information from directories and storages of company. Here, it is monitored that individual
have necessary right for clamming to remove their personal information from public domain
when they have insecurities and fear about confidentiality (Zhang, 2020).
Right to restrict processing: This provision put restrictions and limits over use of
individual information & data by company. In this, right is provided to an individual person to
restrict third party users in processing their personal data.
With above information, it is monitored that data & information need to maintain in
proper manner so that business entities can extract necessary information out of it in proper way.
In addition to this, it is the responsibility of each and every company to protect the information
of their users in a systematic manner so that they feel higher safe & secure while sharing their
personal credentials. Due to the evolution in technology now threat and risk of misusing personal
data is also enhancing rapidly. So, it is imperative for each & every organization to employ
efficient and cost effective techniques for maintaining data in safe and secure way.
Q3. Telecommunication and spread sheets
Discuss cellular network along with its principle components and also describe the way it works
Cellular network is known as process of communicating with each other with the help of
wireless network. It is stated that different networks are used by mobile phones so that users can
communicate with each other in an efficient manner (Wirani, Hidayanto and Shihab, 2020). In
present time, it has become highly important for a person to carry out necessary communication
with the help of mobiles in proper way. Here, mobile phones are considered as one of the
suitable examples of cellular network. It also helps each and every organization in order to share
necessary business information with each other in proper and systematic way. Cellular network
is vital for economic, nation as well as business growth as it helps in maintaining proper and
effective communication in significant manner. In present time, technologies which are related to
mobile phones are changing rapidly so it is important to use latest & updated technology within

organization which will further help in terms of getting an edge over competitors in market
place.
In reference of Arden University, certain benefits which they have gained by using
updated mobile technology are mentioned as under:
Better communication: It is the most important benefits of use of cellular technology as
it helps to individual person in order to maintain better & effective communication with each
other.
Increase collaboration along with colleagues: It is stated that main motive of adopting
cellular technology is to provide ease in communicating with colleagues, peers and other people
for facilitating better relationship at work place (Maral, Bousquet and Sun, 2020). Here,
respective university is able to facilitate relationship with other department with the use of
cellular technology in an efficient manner. Different elements which are associated with cellular
network are mentioned below:
Mobile telephone switching office: It is vital element of cellular network as it is related
with the central office for switching mobile with the aim to maintain proper control over the
way in which system is operated and also track the necessary information related to billing &
customer.
PSTN: It is stated that PSTN is made with switches at centralized points over a network
which is operated as a node for enabling communication between different points over network
in significant manner.
Cell site along with antenna system: It is related with physical location associated with
radio equipment that offers coverage in cell. Here, site of cell differ for each and every mobile
operator according to the location (Vatharkar, Gao and Fomin, 2018).
The above discussion depicts that two crucial technologies in the current world are
cellular network and telecommunications which is currently being used at wide level due to
change in the preferences and demands of market significantly. Here, it is important for each &
every individual to stay aware about recent technologies.

Determine payroll department of Weaning entertainment Ltd
Weaning Entertainment Ltd.
London
First Name
Last
Name
Employee
No. Date
Gross
Salary Taxes Net Salary
Rexford Tugwell ARD-1 30-09-2020 £ 90,000.00
£
27,000.00
£
63,000.00
Morgan Freeman ARD-76D 30-09-2020 £ 1,00,000.00
£
30,000.00
£
70,000.00
Kara Walker ARD-451Z 30-09-2020 £ 85,000.00
£
25,500.00
£
59,500.00
Kevin Hart ARD-747N 30-09-2020 £ 75,900.00
£
22,700.00
£
53,130.00
Rizwan Ali ARD-777F 30-09-2020 £ 95,000.00
£
28,500.00
£
66,500.00
Whitney Cummings ARD-889D 30-09-2020 £ 78,500.00
£
23,550.00
£
54,950.00
Billy Joel ARD-007Q 30-09-2020 £ 75,900.00
£
22,770.00
£
53,130.00
Total £ 6,00,300.00
£
1,80,020.00
£
4,20,210.00
Maximum £ 1,00,000.00
£
30,000.00
£
70,000.00
Minimum £ 75,900.00
£
22,700.00
£
53,130.00
Mean £ 85,757.14
£
25,717.14
£
60,030.00
Median £ 85,000.00
£
25,500.00
£
59,500.00
Employees with 4

Gross Salary
more than 79900
Employees with
Net Salary less
than 67499 6

CONCLUSION
With above stated information, it is concluded that data and information is significant
part of each and every organization. Due to technical enhancement, it has become crucial to
make appropriate use of data so that appropriate strategies can be prepared in an effective
manner. Using information in an efficient manner provides a scope of growth and success to
organization and also generates competitive advantage. Discussion has been carried out
regarding big data, data privacy measures, cellular network and provisions of GDPR in
significant manner. By applying legislations and compliances related to bid data and other
credentials, it is easy for organizations to attain their set objectives within predefined period of
time. It is summarized that in current time, it is important to understand the significance of
technologies and apply necessary techniques in business for getting opportunities of growth and
success. It is monitored that big data plays an imperative role within company in terms of
adopting necessary technologies in an efficient manner.