I have seen the term online database software more lately. What
is it and why should you care? First, what is a database? A
database is simply an organized system of related information.
It could be a system of related information about health
records, or car registrations, or in the case of project
management perhaps resources, projects, or tasks. In many ways,
the project management software tool that you use can be
considered a database. Even a filing cabinet could be considered
a database - an organized system of related information. Online
database software refers to an actual software tool that is used
to organization your related information into a system. "Online"
in many people's minds also refers to something accessible via
the Internet, but I would broaden this to any software tool
available to lots of people. An online project management
software system is really online database software. It just
happens to be organizing project-related information and
providing tools to manage project-related inf