Principles of Data Management

Introduction

This book is called Principles of Data Management but it is really about having the policies and procedures in place within an organisation so that the various information systems that the organisation uses to support its activities can provide high-quality information to their users, even if that information did not originate in the information system with which the user is currently interacting. For this to happen, the organisation’s information systems must be able to share information. If there is no automatic sharing of information between the information systems, some departments may be kept in the dark about what is going on in other departments and information may have to be keyed into more than one system. Neither of these ...