MIS2001L Database and Information Resource Management

Academic Year 2023/2024

Traditionally, the expertise of their employees, the success of the brand names under which the company sells its products, the financial base on which the company is set, the nature and location of their production plant, and the quality of its management team have all been seen as the resources that underlie a successful company. Information was never seen in the above light. However, information is now increasingly being recognised as an organisational resource on par with financial, infrastructure, and human resources. Information is a critical input to quality managerial decision-making. Managers need high quality information to manage change in a turbulent and highly competitive global environment. Information is based on systems for storage, maintenance, and timely retrieval of relevant data presented in an appropriate format. A successful company generates on a daily basis a large amount of data, this raw data must be distinguished from information and is of little use to management. The timely and efficient transformation of this data into information is the function of the database management system.This module contains a comprehensive treatment of databases and their function, and database management systems. Database structure is fundamental to the module, with particular emphasis on the relational model. Theory and practice are both addressed, and students are required to design and build a database system for a business organisation.