Database & Data Analysis Software
When storing and analyzing data, firms
tend to use various forms of software. Two prominent but completely
interlinked types of software for capturing and storing data are database
programs and spreadsheet programs.
Databases typically store data in a way that allows you to deal with
each observation (e.g. one employee) at a time. For example, they
can have a screen that displays all the data for one employee. The
actual data tends to be saved in a table-based spreadsheet program
as seen above, where each observation is a row. There are several
specialist database programs, such as VIP and PeopleSoft for HR.
Larger companies often have special Enterprise Resource Programs (ERPs), where all the data for the ...
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