Data management is comprised of various components; in this paper, the focus is on three elements – “data warehouse architecture, big data, and green computing”. The concepts are essential for managing data, thus helping to generate information for effective organization management. The assessment of these concepts will enable to unearthed key concepts, their application, and the new trend, and also helps to relate them to real-life situations. 

 

Data management is one of the most critical operations in contemporary business management. The growing information technology has made data a vital tool for business management. In this case, the study will analyze data management's main concepts to gain in-depth insight and how they relate to data management and business operation. The three concepts are “data warehouse architecture, big data, and green computing."

Data Warehouse Architecture

Data warehouse architecture is the information system used to store, process, and communicate historical and cumulative data from multiple sources (Chen, 2012). The critical elements of the data warehouse architecture consist of: The data warehouse is a structure that collects data from different sources; thus, the data warehouse database is the basic component that collects diverse data into a single unit. The database provides a data warehouse with scalability and distribution of memory of the information generated. The warehouse database has multi-dimensional and operational indexes used to increase operational speed.

Big data

Big data is a phrase applied to define the huge volume of data in an unstructured or semi-structure form. With big data, it's impossible to determine the trends or flow of this data; specifically, it's not possible to tell when to receive information from which sources (Agarwal, 2014). Thus, making it impossible to process this data using traditional methods. Nowadays, big data is a common aspect of life, so we keep interacting with it every day. I keep using the main form of big data is information generated on social media platforms such as “Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter." In these social media platforms, a huge volume of data is generated at high speed. Every second, in social media platforms, there are thousands of topics being introduced, drawing different opinions from different people (Tufekci, 2014). thus, this makes it difficult to determine the trend of direction these discussions will take.

 IT Green Computing

In contemporary days, the main concern facing human beings is creating a balance between industrial and economic growth while protecting the environment from pollution damage. In information technology, the same effort is made to protect the environment; thus, leading to the introduction of IT green computing (Gai, 2016). IT green computing denotes the use of a computer and computing systems in an ecologically environmentally friendly manner. IT green computing can be achieved by designing and manufacturing computer devices to decrease environmental degradation.