SIGNIFICANCE OF THE DATABASE ENVIRONMENT - Database Design and Development: An Essential Guide for IT Professionals - page 90

EXERCISES
1. Match the columns:
1. primary business processes A. promotes collaboration
2. supervisory users B. create own queries and reports
3. global information C. support core business
4. informational systems D. devoid of inconsistencies
5. collective information E. need information for control
6. information sharing F. common for all users
7. integrated data G. need trend analysis
8. power users H. analyze operational results
9. standards and controls I. synergistic effect
10. executive users J. easy in database environment
2. The core business for a car dealership is buying and selling cars. List some of
the major processes supporting this core business. Describe the elements of
information needed for two of these processes.
3. You are the new project manager for the database project at a large depart-
ment store launching its first database. Your CIO has asked you to write a
memo to the Executive VP on initiating the project. List the major benefits of
a database system in the memo.
4. Describe the ways in which information can be provided to executives and
supervisors from the database system of a large retail grocery chain.
5. The database system in an organization promotes information sharing. Discuss
how the database system enables information sharing. List the major benefits
of information sharing.