User Managers' Systems Needs : Center for Information Systems Research Sloan School of Management Massachusetts Institute of Technolgy (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from User Managers' Systems Needs: Center for Information Systems Research Sloan School of Management Massachusetts Institute of Technolgy

Flexible inquiry systems were originally developed to provide ad-hoc inquiry ljnkd transaction processing'data They have been enhanced to also provide flexible monitor and exception reporting. They require specialized software (database man agement systems anui high level inquiry languages), hardware (disks and terminals), and are generally limited to accessing one database at a time _(eg. Order entry or purchasing) although progress is being made in linking databases together.

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