Chapter

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Data Resource Management

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Learning Objectives
1.Explain the business value of
implementing data resource management
processes and technologies in an
organization.
2.Outline the advantages of a database
management approach to managing the
data resources of a business, compared
to a file processing approach.

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Learning Objectives
3. Explain how database management software
helps business professionals and supports the
operations and management of a business.
4. Provide examples to illustrate each of the
following concepts:

Major types of databases.

Data warehouses and data mining.
Logical data elements.
Fundamental database structures.
Database development.

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Why Study Data Resource Management?

Todays business enterprises cannot
survive or succeed without quality data
about their internal operations and
external environment.

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Data Resource Management

Definition:
A managerial activity that applies
information systems technologies to the
task of managing an organizations data
resources to meet the information needs
of their business stakeholders

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Case #1: Data Warehouse Challenges

Goal:
Bring all customer data together to
enhance managements view of
operations
Potentially help strengthen customer
relationships

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Case #1: Data Warehouse Challenges

Planning:
Consistent definitions for all data types
Centralized or decentralized architecture
Data warehouse foundation must be
expandable to meet growing data streams
and information demands

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Case #1: Data Warehouse Challenges

1.What is the business value of a data
warehouse? Use Argosy Gaming as an
example.
2.Why did Argosy use an ETL software
tool? What benefits and problems arose?
How were they solved?

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Case #1: Data Warehouse Challenges

3. What are some of the major responsibilities that
business professionals and managers have in
data warehouse development? Use Argosy
Gaming as an example.
4. Why do analysts, users, and vendors say that
the benefits of data warehouses depend on
whether companies know their data resources
and what they want to achieve with them? Use
Argosy Gaming as an example.

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Foundation Data Concepts

Character single alphabetic, numeric or
other symbol
Field group of related characters
Entity person, place, object or event
Attribute characteristic of an entity

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Foundation Data Concepts

Record collection of attributes that
describe an entity
File group of related records
Database integrated collection of
logically related data elements

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Logical Data Elements

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Entities and Relationships

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Types of Databases

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Types of Databases
Operational store detailed data needed
to support the business processes and
operations of a company
Distributed databases that are
replicated and distributed in whole or in
part to network servers at a variety of
sites

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Types of Databases
External contain a wealth of information
available from commercial online services
and from many sources on the World
Wide Web
Hypermedia consist of hyperlinked
pages of multimedia

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Data Warehouse
Definition:
Large database that stores data that have
been extracted from the various
operational, external, and other
databases of an organization

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Data Warehouse System

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Data Mart
Definition:
Databases that hold subsets of data from
a data warehouse that focus on specific
aspects of a company, such as a
department or a business process

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Data Warehouse & Data Marts

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Data Mining
Definition:
Analyzing the data in a data warehouse to
reveal hidden patterns and trends in
historical business activity

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Data Mining

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Data Mining Uses

Perform market-basket analysis to identify new
product bundles.
Find root causes to quality or manufacturing
problems.
Prevent customer attrition and acquire new
customers.
Cross-sell to existing customers.
Profile customers with more accuracy.

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Traditional File Processing

Definition:
Data are organized, stored, and
processed in independent files of data
records

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Problems of File Processing

Data Redundancy duplicate data requires an
update to be made to all files storing that data
Lack of Data Integration data stored in
separate files require special programs for
output making ad hoc reporting difficult
Data Dependence programs must include
information about how the data is stored so a
change in storage format requires a change in
programs
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Database Management Approach

Definition:
Consolidates data records into one
database that can be accessed by many
different application programs.
Software interface between users and
databases
Data definition is stored once, separately
from application programs
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Database Management Approach

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Database Management Software (DBMS)

Definition:
Software that controls the creation,
maintenance, and use of databases

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DBMS Software Components

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Uses of DBMS Software

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Database Interrogation
Definition:
Capability of a DBMS to report information from
the database in response to end users requests
Query Language allows easy, immediate
access to ad hoc data requests
Report Generator - allows quick, easy
specification of a report format for information
users have requested

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Database Query vs. Report

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Natural Language vs. SQL Queries

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Database Maintenance
Updating a database continually to reflect
new business transactions and other
events
Updating a database to correct data and
ensure accuracy of the data

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Application Development
End users, systems analysts, and other
application developers can use the
internal 4GL programming language and
built-in software development tools
provided by many DBMS packages to
develop custom application programs.

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Case #2: Protecting the Data Jewels

In the casino industry, one of the most valuable
assets is the dossier that casinos keep on their
affluent customers.
While savvy companies are using business
intelligence and CRM systems to identify their
most profitable customers, theres a genuine
danger of that information falling into the wrong
hands.
Broader access to those applications and the
trend toward employees switching jobs more
frequently have made protecting customer lists
an even greater priority.
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Case #2: Protecting the Data Jewels

Prevention:
Employees with access to such information should be
required to sign nondisclosure, non-compete, and nonsolicitation agreements regarding customer lists.
Treat customer lists as confidential information
internally. Limit access to customer lists to only those
employees who need them.
Enforce strong physical security policies.
Scan e-mail for proprietary information.
Establish and review audit trails.

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Case #2: Protecting the Data Jewels

1.Why have developments in IT helped to
increase the value of the data resources
of many companies?
2.How have these capabilities increased the
security challenges associated with
protecting a companys data resources?
3.How can companies use IT to meet the
challenges of data resource security?
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Case #2: Protecting the Data Jewels

4.What are several major threats today to
the security of the data resources of a
company and its business partners?
Explain several ways a company could
protect their data resources from the
threats you identify.

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Database Structures
Hierarchical relationships between
records form a hierarchy or treelike
structure
Network data can be accessed by one
of several paths because any data
element or record can be related to any
number of other data elements

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Relational Database Structure

Definition:
All data elements within the database are
viewed as being stored in the form of
simple tables

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Relational Database

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Multidimensional Database Structure

Definition:
Variation of the relational model that uses
multidimensional structures to organize
data and express the relationships
between data

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Multidimensional Database Structure

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Object-Oriented Database Structure

Definition:
Can accommodate more complex data types
including graphics, pictures, voice and text
Encapsulation data values and operations that
can be performed on them are stored as a unit
Inheritance automatically creating new objects
by replicating some or all of the characteristics
of one or more existing objects

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Evaluation of Database Structures

Hierarchical data structure is best for
structured, routine types of transaction
processing.
Network data structure is best when
many-to-many relationships are needed.
Relational data structure is best when ad
hoc reporting is required.

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Database Development
Enterprise-wide database development is
usually controlled by database
administrators (DBA)
Data dictionary catalog or directory
containing metadata
Metadata data about data

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Database Development Process

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Data Planning
Database administrators and designers
work with corporate and end user
management to develop an enterprise
model that defines the basic business
process of the enterprise.

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Data Modeling
Definition:
Process where the relationships between
data elements are identified

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Entity Relationship Diagram

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Logical vs. Physical Views

Logical data elements and relationships
among them
Physical describes how data are to be
stored and accessed on the storage
devices of a computer system

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Logical and Physical Database Views

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Case #3: Data Warehouse Business Value

IT Challenge:
How to integrate and massage reams of
data so that business units can respond
immediately to changes in sales and
customer preferences

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Case #3: Data Warehouse Business Value

Solution:
A data warehouse
Hire people with data warehousing skills
Ensure data quality by:
Cleansing data from TPS
Establishing standardized transaction codes
Interviewing end users about quality of
current data and future information needs

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Case #3: Data Warehouse Business Value

1.What are some of the key requirements
for building a good data warehouse? Use
Henry Schein Inc. as an example.
2.What are the key software tools needed
to construct and use a data warehouse?
3.What is the business value of a data
warehouse to Henry Schein? To any
company?
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Case #4: Data Stewards

Data Stewards
Department of employees dedicated to
establishing and maintaining the quality of data
entered into the operational systems that feed
the data warehouse
Research customer relationship, locations, and
corporate hierarchies
Train overseas workers to fix data in their native
languages

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Case #4: Data Stewards

Data Steward Skills
Technical knowledge to use tools necessary to analyze
and fix data
Business Knowledge needed to make judgment calls
about whats wrong with the data an how to fix it
Politically astute, diplomatic and good at conflict
resolution
Understand that data quality is a journey, not a
destination. One-hundred percent accuracy is just not
achievable.

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Case #4: Data Stewards

1. Why is the role of a data steward considered to
be innovative? Explain.
2. What are the business benefits associated with
the data steward program at Emerson?
3. How does effective data resource management
contribute to the strategic goals of an
organization? Provide examples from Emerson
and others.

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Summary
Data resource management is a
managerial activity that applies
information technology and software tools
to the task of managing an organizations
data resources.
The database management approach
consolidates data needed by different
applications into several common
databases and provides an easy-to-use
ad hoc reporting capability.
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Summary
Database management systems are software
packages that simplify the creation, use, and
maintenance of databases.
Several types of databases are used by
business organizations including operational,
distributed, and external databases.
Data warehouses are a central source of data
from other databases that have been cleaned,
transformed, and cataloged for business
analysis and decision support applications.
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Summary
Data must be organized in some logical manner
on physical storage devices so that they can be
efficiently processed. For this reason, data are
commonly organized into logical data elements
such as characters, fields, records, files and
databases.
Database structures such as the hierarchical,
network, relational, and object-oriented models
are used to organize the relationships among
the data records stored in databases.

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Summary
The development of databases can be
easily accomplished using microcomputer
database management packages for
small end-user applications.

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Chapter

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