Entreprise Resource Planning and MIS

Skateboarding is one of the fastest growing and most popular sports, enjoyed by young and old, males and females, all over the world. Here are a few amazing facts about skateboarding. Fact 1: Skateboarding Takes Off in California. Skateboarding originated in California in the late 1960s. Early boards were nothing more than boards or crates on roller-skate wheels. Some of these early boards even had handles. Skateboarding was seen as a good sport for surfers when the waves were poor and was often called “side-walk surfing”. It was only later when surfboard makers started to make skateboards that they started to resemble the boards we see today. The first official competition was in California in 1965. Fact 2: Early Wheels Were Made of Metal or Clay. It seems hard to believe but early boards did indeed use wheels made of metal or clay. As you can imagine, these were slow, noisy and clumsy. It was only in the early 1970s that polyurethane wheels came onto the market. We have ...

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE : DATABASE AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT An  effective information system provides users with accurate, timely, and relevant information. Accurate information is free of errors. Information is timely when it is available to decision makers when it is needed.  File Organization Terms and Concepts A computer system organizes data in a hierarchy that starts with bits and bytes and progresses to fields, records, files, and databases. Problems with The Traditional File Environment In most organizations, systems tended to grow independently without a company-wide plan. Accounting, finance, manufacturing, human resources, and sales and marketing all developed their own systems and data files. Data Redundancy and Inconsistency Data redundancy is the presence of duplicate data in multiple data files so that the same data are stored in more than place or location. Data redundancy wastes storage resources and also leads to data inconsistency, w...