Additional servers can be easily added to support the expanding needs of both data accumulation and processing. Advantages of the Centralizing Centralizing organizational data can eliminate many problems. Centralizing the data will facilitate building, maintaining and enhancing the database. Locating specific data sets required for creating a map can be easily accommodated. There will no longer be the requirement of searching each developer's workstations for the required data set.
Data integrity is improved.
Only the current data set is available. Trying to determine which developer has the latest version of data is eliminated. Developers are required to request a copy of the centralized data set from the data manager before enhancing it. The developer is also required to request that the revised data set is copied back to the network. Maps can be created with the current data sets as opposed to an obsolete data set.