Management Considerations for an Information Center.

Abstract

Recent studies have shown that the data processing industry has a very severe problem to solve. In the next few years there is going to be an extensive increase in millions of instructions per second available due to increases in hardware technology. It is imperative that the software development industry find ways to utilize this capability. Increased programmer productivity is the key. This thesis introduces the Information Center concept that will allow management to better utilize existing data processing capability by providing users the tools required for increased software productivity. An actual government installation is used as an example of using a modern Systems Analysis approach in the installation of an Information Center. Industry trends are discussed and the debate of centralization versus decentralization presented. Additional keywords: Data base management systems, Software engineering, Microprocessors, Minicomputers. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA151774

Entities

People

  • J. D. Auvil

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Data Processing
  • Database Management Systems
  • Databases
  • Engineering
  • Information Processing
  • Information Security
  • Information Systems
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personal Computers
  • Processing Equipment
  • Security
  • Software Development
  • Systems Analysis

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Economics
  • Software Engineering.