The use of data for effective decision making

Many businesses rely extensively on the innovative leverage of their data to guide their decision making.

It’s therefore important that any data held by a company meets the needs of the decision makers and also is in line with the company’s policies.

Business Intelligence involves using data for decision making. Business intelligence should make it easy for decision-makers at all levels in a company to access, analyse, interpret, and act on information. In order to support good decision making, data and the information generated from it needs to be easily available in an intuitive way.

In today’s business environment, storing, accumulating, managing and accessing data efficiently in a secure environment is a specialist job.

Talk to DBAteam, the data professionals that work in partnership with companies to ensure their data is continuously monitored, expertly managed and secure.

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Data Loss

DataLossDB is a research project aimed at documenting known and reported data loss incidents world-wide.

The effort is now a community one, and with the move to Open Security Foundation's DataLossDB.org, asks for contributions of new incidents and new data for existing incidents

http://datalossdb.org/

There are some frightening statistics available on this site:

·         In one of the biggest incidents Heartland Payment Systems, Tower Federal Credit Union, Beverly National Bank lost 130 million records in 2009.

·         The SONY corporation lost over 100 million records in two incidents in 2011

·         In 2011 Tianya, China’s biggest Internet forum lost 40 million records

There are some often quoted statistics available from various sources:
·         6% of all PCs will suffer an episode of data loss in any given year

30% of all businesses that have a major fire go out of business within a year. 70% fail within five years. (Home Office Computing Magazine)
60% of companies that lose their data will shut down within 6 months of the disaster.
93% of companies that lost their data centre for 10 days or more due to a disaster filed for bankruptcy within one year of the disaster. 50% of businesses that found themselves without database management for this same time period filed for bankruptcy immediately. (National Archives & Records Administration in Washington)
Don’t let your business become one of these frightening statistics!

Talk to DBAteam, the data professionals that work in partnership with companies to ensure their data is continuously monitored, expertly managed and secure.

Who are DBAs and what do they do?

DBAs or database administrators are the people in charge of a company’s database strategy. This can include the development design, implementation, monitoring and performance improvement of databases. In some companies they also have responsibility for database security.

So therefore, DBAs are highly skilled personnel, an experienced DBA is usually a ‘high ticket’ employee.

Is a DBA a resource that can be successfully outsourced?

All companies in the current economic climate are looking to outsource where ever they can. Database administration outsourcing can help organisations move through periods when the business and therefore the database requirements are growing, especially when IT budgets are tight or when the expertise required is not readily available.

It is inevitable that database capacities and the complexities will markedly increase, as will the way in which information is used. It therefore seems logical to outsource the DBA function.
Not only to reduce costs, but to benefit from high level of skills and experience, and to have the reassurance of 24/7 maintenance, support and security of your company’s databases.

ProDBA are THE experts in databases – they can cater for ALL your database outsource requirements.
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