Database Management

Sporting association and organisation will very often collect huge amounts of information about several stakeholder groups, such as members, athletes, spectators and commercial partners etc. Every time organisations, it being for-profit or non-profit organisations, have asses to large amounts of information effective and efficient database management become important.

Firstly having an effective and efficient process of handling the information that an organisation is in possession of, help the organisation live up to any requirement which it might face regarding data protection (please see Data Protection).

Secondly having appropriate database management could help better utilisation of data in service provision, commercial activities and project management. 
 

Related Links:
Best Tool
A list of the five best tools for database management.
Creating and managing a database
How to create and managing a database, the text is produced by Microsoft and can be assumed to be biased towards its own products.
Membership database
Openoffice tutorial on creating a membership database.
Getting Data Out
Blog that focuses on how Charities can use it database to get usable data out.
Customer Relationship Management
A blog explaining why having a customer relation management system is not enough to do customer relationship management.
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