What you’ll learn to do: explain how organizations support operations by mining, warehousing, and sharing data

Organizations and operations managers heavily rely on data for critical information about everything from their customers to their products and and processes to their competitors. In this section you’ll learn what organizations do with data to make them usable, storable, and shareable.

The specific things you’ll learn in this section include:

• Differentiate between data and information
• Explain how data mining is used by operations
• Explain how data warehousing is used by operations
• Explain how organizations support operations by sharing data