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Unit 11: Collaborating on Database Storage and Sharing Files

Self Assessment Notes

Fill in the blanks:
13. ……………….. bookmarking means storing your bookmarks online.
14. ………………. is a powerful productivity tool that makes it easier for anyone to share and
save their web-links to use them later on.
15. …………………… is the only bookmarking service that lets you place groups of tags in
folders that are displayed high up on the page.

Case Study Management Information Systems (MIS)

anagement Information Systems (MIS) consists of a collection of interrelated
data and information structure that organized in such a way that it corresponds
Mto the needs and structure of an organization and can be used by more than one
person for more than one application. A (MIS) is a formal, computer-based system, intended
to retrieve, extract, and integrate data from various sources in order to provide timely
information for routine, structured, and anticipated types of decisions. In addition, it has
been successful in acquiring and storing large quantities of detailed data concerning
transaction processing. MIS has the following characteristics:
1. It supports recording keeping and data processing functions.
2. Same databases can be shared for all functions of the organization.
3. Every manager, from the different levels of the organization can reach easily to the
data.
4. All data and information can be used only by authorized personnel. Thus, system's
security is provided.
Organizations require MIS because of some specific causes. These causes are:
1. Complexity of data transfer and communication problems because of this complexity.

2. Work and force repetitions, creation of same data, and storing them in many different
places.
3. Applying many kinds of operations and information flows when obtaining same
data.
4. Impossibility of working with data. It is hard to get useful and necessary information
because their form and positions are not proper.
5. Insufficient data source.
6. Limited information support.
Database Approach

Misplacing information is a problem. Having the right information is not enough; we
also have it logically and physically organized so that you can easily access it and make
the sense of it. Having the right information and being able to get it quickly will increase
productivity. Once getting the information; it must be stored so that people can get it
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