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Understand what tasks are necessary for managing enterprise applications, including administration of data resources, data administration, and database administration. Learn the responsibilities of data administrators and database administrators in maintaining a data dictionary.
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Question 4 .- What Tasks Are Necessary For Managing Enterprise Applications ?
Enterprise Applications Definition • Software designed to integrate all aspects of a firm'soperations and processes such as accounting, finance, human resources, inventory control, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and distribution, and resourceplanning. Advanced enterprise applications providelinkages with customers, business partners, and suppliers. • If an organization uses enterprise applications, it may need support staff for managing them. Either the IS department manages everything, or individuals and workgroups manage their own applications
This figure provides a list of tasks involved in managing enterprise applications
Administer Data • In addition to Managing enterprise applications there is also administering data resources. • Administering data resources is a very important function with two aspects: • Data administration, which pertains to all of an organization’s data assets. • Database administration, which pertains to a particular database. • A data administrator/database administrator supervises the entire data functional group.
This figure describes the responsibilities of data administration.
One of the responsibilities of data administration is to establish and maintain a data dictionary. This figure is an example of some of the fields found in a data dictionary.