Guide to business and data trends
Data manipulation and interpretation has been an integral part
of enterprises since long only the methods of data entry,
storage and retrieval keep on being upgraded to suit growing
needs of business world. Older methods of huge paper work for
data management requirements of a company have long given way to
the computer age and an era of paperless offices is on its way
to live for long. Computer handling of data is much more
efficient, reliable and fast for all types of data needs in any
business. Gathering huge amounts of data at one place and being
able to manipulate it easily is one of the greatest advantage of
digital data setups.
Computerized information's can be stored on variety of media
depending on the requirement, nature and volume of data. Very
Large amounts of data that is necessary to be retrieved only
when needed can be stored on secondary storage devices for
permanent accumulation. Hard disks and CD-ROM's have been
popular in acting as data repositories. Data can be written to
CD-ROM's by way of burning them using CD-writers and information
in hard-disk is stored with the help of any computer.
Even data sharing and transfer has become a matter of minutes by
the invention of computerized data management. Information about
anything in business can be easily accessed by anyone whoever
has the powers to do so even of he is situated at remote
distances. In special business organizations where data transfer
and sharing is vital for its success emergence of computers has
been a heavenly blessing and has given a huge boost to its
economic status. Airline reservations, railway bookings, knowing
the performance of business in different branches of the
organization all has been made easy by introduction of digital
computing systems.
These data spreading and keeping of backup copies, apart from
serving good to the business has also created threat of data
theft and data damages for business. Hackers from all over world
and also social technical culprits impose high risk of accessing
and misusing vital facts of business. Apart from natural damages
like that of fire, flood, lightning or sudden accidents business
data needs to be safeguarded from ill- intentions of some
malicious human beings. All these necessities have given intense
boost to data security software and other safety measures
implied by companies. Even the extra costs incurred in beginning
for implying protection against anticipated data loss are worth
being considered for long term gains of business houses
About the author:
Mansi gupta writes about business and data
trends .