
Chapter 1 Introducing Business Metadata
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Prior to online processing, if the computer went down, the business hardly
knew it. But with online processing, if the computer went down or the computer
slowed, the business was affected negatively in many ways. With the power
rendered by online processing and disk storage came even more applications.
1.2.3 Access to Data
Soon lots of applications were springing up, and with the applications came
the realization that entire large groups of people who needed data from the
applications could not access the data. The applications that were built were
designed for the specific requirements of a few user