CSC - Open Systems Interconnectivity

Role for open systems in database interconnectivity and the development and management in data driven websites 12 ATAR

In order to link to a website that provides a database it needs a system of connectivity.
This connectivity is a special program called an Application Program Interface or API.

Picture 2 components here; you on the internet and a database on a computer.
To get to that database it needs to made available on the internet.
It can only be made available on the internet by using a special type of software called an API as mentioned above.
It can also be made available by using Open DataBase Connectivity (ODBC) software.
The API or ODBC make the connection of database to the internet happen.

A data driven website is the opposite of a static website that doesn't change.
It is always changing.
Why?
This is because a data driven website is used by eBusiness.
Online businesses are examples of this.
They want to update the items sold on the website.
They want to update the prices on the website.
How are these developed and managed?
Personal are employed to create the website.
Personal are employed to update all aspects of the site.
Personal are employed to secure the website.
There are web companies that can make data driven websites eg for pharmacy HERE
Management of these websites is sofware focussed.
Software is used to analyase the data and return reports that provide guidance on clever business decisions.
Online businesses and other successful large businesses are using reports to beome even more successful.

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Open Systems in Database Interconnectivity