You have just been named Director of Data Administration of General Hardware Co. General Hardware maintains a large central IS organization with several operational relational databases at its headquarters. It also has databases on several local-area network servers, some located at its headquarters and some in regional offices. Of course, there are many relational databases on individual employees' PCs, too. Certain data is sent from the central databases to the LAN databases nightly. You have been given a free hand to create a data administration department and supporting database administration departments for General Hardware and its IS environment. Design your data and database administration functions. Include their responsibilities and explain how they will add value to the corporation.

Since General Hardware has a "huge, central IS organization," this organization ought to incorporate the two data administration and database administration departments.

The data administration department will be required to deal with the full scope of data administration duties regarding the whole corporation, both at the central station and at the local offices.

The central database administration department will give the standard operational database administrations for the home office databases.

It will likewise give direction and coordination to the individuals at the provincial offices who are answerable for their databases.

Obviously, database administration will likewise be answerable for the daily data downloads alluded to.

Data administration and database administration will increase the value of the corporation by making arrangements for and overseeing data as a corporate asset with the objective of increasing an upper hand from it.