The collection departments can make use of the data to recognized the past due accounts and direct their efforts to these particular customers. As have discussed in the previous sections, the imaging system, the EDI system and the MDR system will greatly help First Nations' collection department to do their work more efficiently. All the invoices are stored in the imaging database and can be pulled out instantly. The MDR database allows users to request different reports for different periods, this system can print out reports on customers' payment history, the past due account reports, the bad debt reports, etc. in seconds. These all can greatly improve the efficiency of the collection process and increase the profit margin of the business.
Managers can use query languages to ask questions and retrieve data in any manner.
As long as the data exists in the database, managers can ask any type of question and examine the data in any way they need. Every departments wants to see different information, despite these information all come from the same set of data but just being presented differently. With out the DBMS, all the departments would have procedures or computer programs to track their own information. There will a lot data redundancy and duplicate efforts. Data Independence - most of the time, First Nations management and sales people would want to see different information that can affect their decisions and positions in negotiating deals with clients and competing with other factors.