{"id":11249,"date":"2018-05-29T23:29:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T23:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wmintrobusiness\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=11249"},"modified":"2024-05-07T16:58:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T16:58:50","slug":"introduction-to-managing-data","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-introductiontobusiness\/chapter\/introduction-to-managing-data\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Information Networks","rendered":"Introduction to Information Networks"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you\u2019ll learn to do: compare the ways that businesses can manage information<\/h2>\r\nBillions and billions of bits of data\u00a0flood into an organization's information system, but how\u00a0does that data get utilized effectively? The challenge lies\u00a0not so much with the\u00a0collection or storage\u00a0of the data: today, it is possible to collect and even store vast amounts of information\u00a0relatively cheaply.\u00a0The main difficulty\u00a0is figuring out the best and most efficient way\u00a0to extract and manage the relevant data and resulting information. In this section you will learn how organizations use a variety of networks to manage their information.","rendered":"<h2>What you\u2019ll learn to do: compare the ways that businesses can manage information<\/h2>\n<p>Billions and billions of bits of data\u00a0flood into an organization&#8217;s information system, but how\u00a0does that data get utilized effectively? The challenge lies\u00a0not so much with the\u00a0collection or storage\u00a0of the data: today, it is possible to collect and even store vast amounts of information\u00a0relatively cheaply.\u00a0The main difficulty\u00a0is figuring out the best and most efficient way\u00a0to extract and manage the relevant data and resulting information. 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