• Universities:
– For student information, course registrations, and
grades (in addition to standard enterprise information
such as human resources and accounting).
• Airlines:
– For reservations and schedule information. Airlines
were among the first to use databases in a
geographically distributed manner.
• Telecommunication:
– For keeping records of calls made, generating
monthly bills, maintaining balances on prepaid calling
cards, and storing information about the
communication networks.