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Managing Data Resources

The document discusses data resource management and the importance of managing organizational data. It describes different types of databases like operational, distributed, and hypermedia databases. It also covers data warehousing, data mining, and the components of a complete data warehouse system. Traditional file processing had issues like data redundancy, lack of integration and integrity that a database management approach helps address.

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Managing Data Resources

The document discusses data resource management and the importance of managing organizational data. It describes different types of databases like operational, distributed, and hypermedia databases. It also covers data warehousing, data mining, and the components of a complete data warehouse system. Traditional file processing had issues like data redundancy, lack of integration and integrity that a database management approach helps address.

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Managing Data Resources

Chapter 5
Data Resource Management
 Data are a vital organizational resource that need to be managed

 business enterprises cannot survive or succeed without quality data


about their internal operations and external environment

 organizations and their managers need to practice data resource


management

 a managerial activity that applies information systems technologies


like database management , data warehousing ,and other data
management tools to the task of managing an organization’s data
resources to meet the information needs of their business
stakeholders
Types of Databases
 Operational database
◦ Stores detailed data needed to support the business processes and operations of
a company
◦ also called subject area databases (SADB), transaction databases ,and
production databases
◦ For example, customer database, human resource database, inventory database,
and other databases containing data generated by business operations

 Distributed database
◦ can reside on network servers on the World Wide Web, on corporate intranets
or extranets, or on other company networks
◦ may be copies of operational or analytical databases, hypermedia or discussion
databases, or any other type of database
◦ Ensuring that the data in an organization’s distributed databases are consistently
and concurrently updated is a major challenge
Types of Databases
 Distributed database
◦ One primary advantage of a distributed database lies with the protection
of valuable data
◦ Another advantage of distributed databases is found in their storage
requirements.
◦ Primary challenge is the maintenance of data accuracy.
◦ One additional challenge associated with distributed databases is the
extra computing power and bandwidth necessary to access multiple
databases in multiple locations.

 Hypermedia Database
◦ consists of hyperlinked pages of multimedia (text, graphic and
photographic images, video clips, audio segments, and so on)
Data Warehousing and Data Mining
 Data Warehouse
◦ stores data that have been extracted from the various operational,
external, and other databases of an organization
◦ central source of the data that have been cleaned, transformed, and
cataloged so that they can be used by managers and business
professionals for data mining
◦ Data marts holds subsets of data from data warehouse that focus on
specific aspects of company
The components of a complete data warehouse
system.
Data Warehousing and Data Mining
 Data Warehouse
• data from various operational and external databases are captured,
cleaned, and transformed into data that can be better used for analysis
• acquisition process might include activities like consolidating data from
several sources, filtering out unwanted data, correcting incorrect data,
converting data to new data elements, or aggregating data into new data
subsets
• data are then stored in the enterprise data warehouse, from which they
can be moved into data marts or to an analytical data store that holds
data in a more useful form for certain types of analysis
• Metadata (data that define the data in the data warehouse) are stored in a
metadata repository and cataloged by a metadata directory.
• Finally, a variety of analytical software tools can be provided to query,
report, mine, and analyze the data for delivery via Internet and intranet
Web systems to business end users
Data Warehousing and Data Mining
 data in a data warehouse are static - means that once the data are
gathered up, formatted for storage, and stored in the data
warehouse, they will never change
 Data Mining
◦ the data in a data warehouse are analyzed to reveal hidden patterns and
trends in historical business activity
◦ analysis can be used to help managers make decisions about strategic
changes in business operations to gain competitive advantages in the
marketplace
◦ can discover new correlations, patterns, and trends in vast amounts of
business data stored in data warehouses
Traditional file processing
 data are organized, stored, and processed in independent files of data
records
 Problems of File Processing
◦ Data Redundancy: Independent data files included a lot of duplicated data
◦ It caused problems when data had to be updated
◦ Separate file maintenance programs had to be developed and coordinated
to ensure that each file was properly updated

◦ Lack of Data Integration: Having data in independent files made it


difficult to provide end users with information for requests that required
accessing data stored in several different files
◦ Special computer programs had to be written to retrieve data from each
independent file
◦ Retrieval was so difficult, time-consuming, and costly
 Lack of Data Integrity
◦ the integrity (i.e., the accuracy and completeness) of the data was
suspect because there was no control over their use and maintenance by
authorized end users
◦ Caused inconsistency problems in the development of programs to
access data
Database Management Approach
◦ consolidates data records, formerly held in separate files, into databases
that can be accessed by many different application programs

◦ DBMS serves as a software interface between users and databases,


which helps users easily access the data in a database

◦ database management involves the use of database management


software to control how databases are created, interrogated, and
maintained to provide information that end users need

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