Transactional and analytical information - Answers all the information contained within a
business unit. The primary purpose of this is to support day-to-day operations of the unit
Information Timeliness - Answers The availability of the output information at a time suitable
for its use.
Information quality - Answers a measure of the value which the information provides to the user
of that information
Information governance - Answers The management of information at an organization relating
to the security of the information at hand
Information - Answers Data converted into meaningful and useful context
Database - Answers maintains information about various types of objects (inventory), events
(transactions), people (employees), and places (warehouses).
Database Management System (DBMS) - Answers Creates, reads, updates, and deletes data in a
database while controlling access and security. It also provides methodologies for creating,
updating, storing, and retrieving data in a database. In addition, it provides facilities for
controlling data access and security, allowing data sharing, and enforcing data integrity.
Data driven website - Answers an interactive website kept constantly updated and relevant to
the needs of its customers using a database
useful when the website offers a great deal of information, products, or services because
visitors are frequently annoyed if they are buried under an avalanche of information when
searching a website. Many companies use the Web to make some of the information in their
internal databases available to customers and business partners. - Answers Benefits of a data
driven website
Data Warehouse - Answers a logical collection of information, gathered from many different
operational databases, that supports business analysis and decision making
to combine information, more specifically, strategic information, throughout an organization
into a single repository in such a way that the people who need that information can make
decisions and undertake business analysis. - Answers Primary use of a data warehouse
1. Faster reporting, analysis, and planning
2. More accurate reporting, analysis, and planning
3. Provides information to make better business decisions
4. Improved data quality