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Chapter 4
Chapter 4
4.1 Introduction
Effective use of information depends on how data are stored, organised and accessed in an organisation. Proper delivery of information not only depends upon the capabilities of computer hardware and software but also on the organisations ability to manage data as an important resource. After seeing the unwilling to make the requisite organisational changes. Moving to database environment can be a costly long-term process. In addition to the cost of DBMS Software, related hardware, and data modeling, organizations should anticipate heavy expenditure for integrating, merging and standardizing their data that will populate their database to eliminate inconsistencies, redundancies and errors that typically arise when overlapping data are stored and maintained by different systems and different functional areas. You should understand the managerial and organisational requirements as well as the technologies for managing data as a resource. Organizations need to manage their data assets very carefully to make sure that the data can be easily accessed and managed by the managers and employees across the organisation. First, we describe the typical challenges facing business trying to access information using traditional file management technologies. Then we describe the technology of database management systems, which can overcome many of the drawbacks of traditional file management systems and provide the firm wide integration of information required for digital firm applications.
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