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Explain why a database and a database management system are fundamental to business operations.
Short Essay Question
First thing to know that what is business operation?
In any operating business, there is a large amount of data which
can change the face and value of the business. The business may be
anything like cycle shop, health related, or large MNCs. They all
have customers and if they want more customers they need to analyze
the data. Now to keep this large amount of data you need a database
and a database management system. All the data is not useful in
database but to extract some useful data you need database
management system for example there is a social plateform Facebook.
Most of their users are mobile users, so they should give special
attention on mobile users, but the question is how they knew they
have mostly mobile users. Yes, you are right. It is due to use of
database management system. In the same way a cycle shop can
analyze hsi data that which cycle has more demand among customers
and which one is going to be out of stock. These can make you take
a strong decision for your business. As you can easily manage,
store, analyze and update the information in database management
system makes it fundamental to business operation.