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DATA MANAGEMENT

This is the practice of collecting, organising and accessing data to support productivity, efficiency and decision making.

DATA MANAGEMENT PROCESSES

Data management involves different processes which among others include the following;

1.Data collection, processing, validating and storage.

2.Integrating different types of data from disparate sourceswith structured and unstructured data inclusive

3.Ensuring high data availability and disaster recovery

4.Governing how data is used and accessed by people and apps

5.Protecting and securing data and ensuring data privacy

ADVANTAGES OF DATA MANAGEMENT

1.It helps to reduce potential errors by establishing processes and policies for usage

2.It also improves decision making in organisations

3.It improves customer relationship management

4.It increases productivity in the organization It ensures research integrity and validation of results

5.It avoids duplication of efforts It ensures accountability

DISADVANTAGES OF DATA MANAGEMENT

1.The increased costs where the hardware and software needed to run the data management system are expensive

2.The staff required to run the data management system are also expensive and hard to get since the process requires trained personnel to run it

3.Complexity

4.Currency maintenance

5.Huge size

6.Difficult backup and recovery

7.Confidentiality, privacy and security