Data

•Management

•$125,000/yr

• Your Job– Where does the data come from?– What form?

• Pictures• Numbers• Telephone conversations

– How do I sort it -- organize it?

– How do I make sense of it?

•Make Decision

•NOW!!!

• Almost everyone’s job is to make decisions

• Management makes important high cost decisions

• Have powerful tools to help make decisions

History

• Payroll System• Invoicing System• Inventory System

• Production System• TPS System

• The MIS department

• Replaced by

• The Management System

•MANAGEMENT– Uses data organized to fit into computers

– Stored and sorted in computers– Available in whatever order you want it

•But:

•Don’t know what to do.

•You’re FIRED

• Next

• I KNOW

• I KNOW

•I KNOW

• Know what?

• I know what a Database management System is

• Know what?

• I know what a Database management System is

• I know what they are designed to do

• Know what?

• I know what a Database management System is

• I know what they are designed to do

• I know how to make decisions using the right data

•YOU Know what?• What ERP is

– and how it works

• What SOA is– And how it works

• What SaaS is– And how it works

•YOU Know what?• What Web 2 is

– and how it opens opportunities

• What Enterprise 2 is– And how it utilizes the best of ERP

• What web 3 is– And how social implications fit

•You’re Hired!

• Data• The format of facts….the elements

• Information• Arranged so that you can Manipulate, Sort, Graph and• Communicate

• Computer• The hardware in any form and linked by any source to

everything else…the invisible tool.

• Decisions……that’s your “thinking” job!

In the beginning

• There was a computer

In the beginning

• In an air conditioned room

• Secure (very expensive)

• Highly trained operators and programmers• Linked to CRT, printer and other input by

hard wires

• Backed up by tape systems

In the beginning

• The result of the computer’s work was specific in nature.

• Designed to do Inventory

• Designed to do Payroll

• BUT

• I want a different report

• And I want it NOW!@!!!!!

•Tough Luck!

• How about coming back next month!

• Maybe we will have it ready then.

Today

• Data Base management Systems provide the data

• You access the data

• You manipulate data to find the patterns

• You make decisions NOW!

Today

• Data from all sources

• Data can be Mined (sorted through) for specific relationships– Why is it so slow?– How can I make product faster?– How can I make the product faster?

– How can I make the product cheaper?

Today

• How can internet connect help?

• What web apps are applicable?

• How do we mash-up web apps to give us a competitive edge?

• Would a wiki work here?

• How can we use blogs to help?

• How can we interface with the masses on line?

Today

• Your Mind

•Is the IMPORTANT tool

Today

• Can you use the tools that management is expected to use?

• How much are you worth if you can’t?