In today’s workplace, large organizations are increasingly licensing standardized software from vendors such as SAP, Oracle, and Siebel. Such software already has a database design. But with every organization running the same software, many are learning that they can only gain a competitive advantage if they make better use of the data in those predesigned databases. Hence, students who know how to extract data and create read-only databases for reporting and data mining have obtained marketable skills in the world of ERP and other packaged software solutions.