Data Base Directions. The Next Steps.

摘要

What information about data base technology does a manager need to make prudent decisions about using this new technology. To provide this information the National Bureau of Standards and the Association for Computing Machinery established a workshop of approximately 80experts in five major subject areas. The five subject areas were auditing,evolving technology,government regulations,standards,and user experience. Each area prepared a report contained in these proceedings. The proceedings provide guidance on steps managers should follow to prepare themselves and their organization for the installation of data base management concepts. The auditing working panel noted the increased vulnerability of organizations who integrate their formerly dispersed and redundant files into a data base and suggest actions to address this risk. The technology report noted several promising parallel developments but concluded that the future would see evolving,rather than revolutionary data base progress. Government regulations,particularly the drive for individual privacy rights,were seen to play an important role in determining data base directions and the panel's guidance on cost impact suggest that organizations would experience reduced costs with data base technology. Standards pervaded all issues and were found necessary in several sub-areas of data base technology but the panel saw no immediate likelihood of national data base standards.