QUESTION

Most organizations began information processing on a small scale, automating one application at a time. Systems tended to raise independently and not according to some grand plan. Every functional area tended to develop systems in isolation from other functional areas. The organization was collecting the same information in far too many files.

(a) Describe any three resulting problems of this traditional file environment.

(b) Illustrate with the aid of a clear diagram, what is a data management system (DBMS).

(c) State the three E-Commerce categories and the benefits of each.

(d) (i) What is an Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)?

(ii) Describe briefly five benefits of EDI.