BUS 237 Chapter 5: Databases and Content Management

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUS 237
• Professor: Jie Mein Goh

Document Summary

Is related to intellectual property (long: a form of creative endeavour that can be protected through a trademark, patent, copyright, industrial design. The data, graphics, sound, images, and video that are of important to the organization (short) Creating, storing, and editing content an organization has captured. Enables integration w/ multi application: cms (content management systems) Used to format the presentation of data to a uniform standard. Challenges: processing and storing the right content, getting the right content to the right person in the right format at the right time. Spreadsheet: keeps list typically involving a single important thing ex. Database: keeps multiple lists of related things ex. W/ is, all content is stored in digital form. Bit: smallest unit is bit which represents either 1 or 0. Byte: a byte = 8 bits the most common storage unit. 1 byte can be translated into a character: ex.