ITM 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Amazon Relational Database Service, Apache Software Foundation, Data Redundancy

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Information Technology Management
• Course: ITM 102
• Professor: Bharat Shah

Document Summary

Postal service rebound: with more people using e-mail, messaging systems, and social networking instead of. Snail mail, the volume of first-class mail has plummeted. Service has built sophisticated computer models that map the most efficient and cost- effective mail delivery routes: with annual revenue of billion, the usps saves many millions per year by analyzing the data. Cochrane believes the usps could use imb data to help retailers and catalog companies drive more sales: the experience of the u. s. Postal service illustrates the importance of data management. Business performance depends on what an organization can or cannot do with its data: the u. s. Postal service is a huge, sprawling government agency where insufficient data, along with antiquated equipment and business processes, affected both operational efficiency and management decision making. In order to achieve more value from automated scanning and processing technologies as well as information from the database, the usps had to redesign jobs, business processes, and workflows.