DBMS in Business
Database Management Systems are arguably the most useful tools for managing information within almost any organization. If you imagine an organization without a DBMS, it is likely that you may visualize room after room full of papers, folders and filing cabinets. For some organizations, it would be impossible to organize or even have adequate space to hold the amount of information that the company has on customers, products, competition, etc...the list goes on and on. Now, imagine that you as an employee need to find all of your current customers who are male, between the age of 35 and 50, and are divorced. Perhaps you are searching for all of these individuals to target for a new product that the company believes will appeal to such individuals. This task is virtually impossible without a DBMS within the organization. With the use of a DBMS the corporation could pinpoint all of these individuals in a matter of seconds. Whereas, without such a system retreival of such information would take many individuals, potentially an infinite amount of time.
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The costs associated with such data management without the use of a DBMS would ultimately lead to the deterioration and destruction of any organization. Although many DBMSs for large organizations can cost very large sums of money and require many IT employees to maintain and uprade on a regular basis, they don't compare to the alternative. If you consider the number of times each day that multiple employees use company information in a number of different ways, it is impossible to justify using techniques that were used before the introduction of DBMSs.
Database Management Systems are arguably the most useful tools for managing information within almost any organization. If you imagine an organization without a DBMS, it is likely that you may visualize room after room full of papers, folders and filing cabinets. For some organizations, it would be impossible to organize or even have adequate space to hold the amount of information that the company has on customers, products, competition, etc...the list goes on and on. Now, imagine that you as an employee need to find all of your current customers who are male, between the age of 35 and 50, and are divorced. Perhaps you are searching for all of these individuals to target for a new product that the company believes will appeal to such individuals. This task is virtually impossible without a DBMS within the organization. With the use of a DBMS the corporation could pinpoint all of these individuals in a matter of seconds. Whereas, without such a system retreival of such information would take many individuals, potentially an infinite amount of time.
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The costs associated with such data management without the use of a DBMS would ultimately lead to the deterioration and destruction of any organization. Although many DBMSs for large organizations can cost very large sums of money and require many IT employees to maintain and uprade on a regular basis, they don't compare to the alternative. If you consider the number of times each day that multiple employees use company information in a number of different ways, it is impossible to justify using techniques that were used before the introduction of DBMSs.
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References
Encyclopedia of Business: Database Management Systems. (2nd Ed.) Acceessed April 6th, 2009 from: http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/encyclopedia/Cos-Des/Database-Management-Systems.html#BUSINESS_APPLICATIONS
A brief history of modern RDBMS IT management. (2002). Accessed April 6th, 2009 from: http://www.mountainman.com.au/software/history/intro.html
A brief history of modern RDBMS IT management. (2002). Accessed April 6th, 2009 from: http://www.mountainman.com.au/software/history/intro.html
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