Managing Data

Haloooo Bloggers. After Information Security topic, now i will focus about Managing Data and Knowledge

Every company has a document that is very much making it difficult to classify the data, in this article and few next article we will focus on managing the data and knowledge.


  • Managing Data

Data required in many applications of information technology. Data must have a high quality, accurate, complete, timely, consistent, accessible anytime and anywhere, relevant and brief.


  • Difficulties in Data Management

Often the data is processed in several stages and variations of different locations, which cause many problems and difficulties. Here is a variety of the Difficulties of managing the data:


  1. The amount of data increases exponentially. For example, historical data, data that contains elements of the time variable and must be stored for a long time, as well as new data are often added.
  2. Data are scattered randomly in an organization, and collected by anyone using a variety of methods and equipment
  3. Data obtained from a variety of sources: internal sources (database of companies, company documents), personal sources (opinions, experience) and external sources (government reports, commercial databases).
  4. Degradation of data. For example, customers who move to a new address, or change the name, the discovery of new products, new employees as well as employees who are fired, etc.
  5. Data rot. This difficulty is related to data storage media. Over time, the recorded data can experience physical problems. This can be caused by temperature, humidity, light, and so forth. In addition, few players equipment data have been unable to find. For example, cassette players, which are now rarely found
  6. Safety, quality and integrity of data.
  7. The system of information that are not connected to each other, so can cause data inconsistencies.
  8. Federal Regulations. For example, Sarbanes-Oxley.


Next i will write about kind of the data, stay tuned and get knowledge together with learn-informationsystem :)
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