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A key benefit is the centralization of data - integrity, only one copy, maintenance, etc.

HTH

Vern

At 12:56 PM 4/23/2003 -0500, you wrote:
In one or two sentences, what is the benefit to a company of using a
multi-user computer system?

I mentioned to my mgmt that the fundamental purpose is to help management
enforce company policies and procedures, and received all sorts of flak.


This does lead to a technical point. We have a part of our organization that is having some problems. Many are sure that the problems are caused by users ie: "people not following company procedures".

My point is that if procedures are not being followed, that could be caused
by either:

1) People not following procedures

- or -

2)  The computer system is not adequately enforcing the company's policies
and procedures.


A simple example would be at an airline - a computer system helps gaurd against anyone walking onto an aircraft for a free flight. It is helping enforce the company policy that everyone must pay to fly!

Any other opinions?



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