Abstract

The purpose of this research is to provide practioners with information from the perspective of end users, database administrators, and developers regarding concerns and benefits of data management, data access, data manipulation, data query, and data storage in today’s workplace. Synergy between data managers and end users is also a topic of discussion in this paper. The research results find that end users requirements are growing, organizational data needs are expanding, and database administrators and developers have more data challenges due to the increase of data security requirements and administrative processes within organizations. Due to the increasing data needs, end users are becoming more adept in creating their own reports. The reporting techniques available to end users must ensure data security and integrity standards are in place. Developers of graphical user interface (GUI) tools are responsible for safeguarding data. Database administrators and developers must always think of data security throughout the entire lifecycle of the data when coding applications to ensure data security is consistent, even after it leaves the premise. Cloud computing and big data is also an important aspect of data management in the future. An examination of cloud computing and big data constructs on existing data is also important as organizations adopt new technologies.

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