IS 501 Accessing Information from Databases Question
What are the principal tools and technologies for accessing information from databases to improve business performance and decision making?
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Effectively and efficiently using information is crucial to the success of every single company not only in the United States but also around the world. Database provides companies a great place to store the information they generated in the past or will be used in the future. With a place to store data, accessing information from databases is key to the operating effectiveness of a company.
Each application that a company is using has an interface and one or more databases connected to it. One of the most commonly used databases is Oracle Database. It is connected to a great variety of applications that a company uses in daily operation, including ERP systems, such as SAP, PeopleSoft, and Oracle ERP cloud. The databases can also be connected to CRM systems such as Salesforce and Nutshell. All these applications can access information from databases to monitor daily operations, detect problems, optimize processes, and improve business performance and decision making, etc.
To ensure that the information extracted from databases is secure, complete, and accurate, a reliable network that connects databases and other applications is essential to a company. Also, given the rising risk of cybersecurity and data protection, effective controls that restrict unnecessary access to databases are more and more important.
References:
Elisa Bertino, Sushil Jajodia, Pierangela Samarati. Database security: Research and practice. Information Systems, Volume 20, Issue 7, November 1995, Pages 537 – 556