Management system in the context of "Online transaction processing"

An information silo, or a group of such silos, is an insular management system in which one information system or subsystem is incapable of reciprocal operation with others that are, or should be, related. Thus information is not adequately shared but rather remains sequestered within each system or subsystem, figuratively trapped within a container as grain is trapped within a silo: there may be much of it, and it may be stacked quite high and be freely available within those limits, but it has no effect outside them.

Information silos occur whenever a data system is incompatible, or not integrated, with other data systems. This incompatibility may occur in the technical architecture, in the application architecture, or in the data architecture of a data system. Such data silos are proving an obstacle for businesses wishing to use data mining to make productive use of their data. However, since it has been shown that established data-modeling methods are the root cause of the data-integration problem, most data systems are at least incompatible in the data-architecture layer.

The ISO 14000 family is a set of international standards for environment management systems. It was developed in March 1996 by International Organization for Standardization. The goal of these standards is to help organizations (a) minimize how their operations (processes, etc.) negatively affect the environment (i.e. cause adverse changes to air, water, or land); (b) comply with applicable laws, regulations, and other environmentally oriented requirements; and (c) continually improve in the above. The standards were designed to fit into an integrated management system.

ISO 14000 is similar to ISO 9000 quality management in that both pertain to the process of how a service/product is rendered, rather than to the service/product itself. As with ISO 9001, certification is performed by third-party organizations rather than being awarded by ISO directly. The ISO 19011 and ISO 17021 audit standards apply when audits are being performed. The current version of ISO 14001 is ISO 14001:2015, which was published in September 2015.