(PowerPoint(8 to 13 slides)) YOUR POWER POINT MUST INCLUDE RESPONSES TO ALL (5) Items BELOW:

1. Identifying and Following Trends

Hot.com is a new business that specializes in helping companies identify and follow significant trends in their industries. You have recently been hired as a new business analyst and your first task is to highlight current trends in the EBusiness industry. Using the Internet and any other resources you have available, highlight five significant trends not discussed in this text. Lists the trends and discusses the potential business impacts for each trend?

2. NAO Robots

NAO (pronounced now) robots are about as cute as anything ever created, and boy can they dance. A Nao robot is an autonomous, programmable, humanoid robot developed by Aldebaran Robotics; a French robotics company headquartered in Paris. Nao robots have been used for research and education purposes in numerous academic institutions worldwide. As of 2015, over 5,000 Nao units are in use in more than 50 countries. Visit the Web and search NAO robot videos and create a new product or service for a Nao robot?

3. Educational Robots

Robots have always grabbed the attention and imagination of kids (of all ages)! RobotLAB uses this attention to build core 21st century skills like programming, and computational thinking. Using advanced robots, RobotLAB creates abstract math and computer science real, by focusing lessons page 520 around complex problems which become intuitive through interaction and manipulation of the robots. Visit http://www.robotlab.com/ and review the many robots they are creating to help education. Create a new robot that could help you with your college experience.

4. Less Is More

Your organization is teetering on the edge of systems chaos. Your systems administrator is stressed beyond tolerance by too many systems, too many applications, too few resources, and too little time. The scope, frequency, and diversity of demand are causing greater risk than anyone dares to admit. Automating (and reducing complexity of) the operating environment is critical for your business to survive. Research autonomic computing and discuss how this technology can help an organization gain control over its systems?

5. Second Life

What is Second Life and how is it being used by businesses and the public? Create a BI strategy for gathering information in a virtual world. How can BI help a business become more efficient in a virtual world? How will supporting BI in Second Life differ from supporting BI in a traditional company? What BI ethical issues might you encounter in Second Life?