Answer the following questions in small essays:

1. What is a document management system (DMS)? List some ways a DMS can help a business become more efficient and productive. Explain your ideas in scholarly detail. 

2. Discuss in scholarly detail how consolidating data marts into an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) help a company to meet its compliance requirements and a going green initiative. 

3. Discuss in scholarly detail why companies use portals and also list and briefly define three types of portals as part of the response.

4. Discuss in scholarly detail concepts behind business continuity and c (BC/DR) and describe characteristics of these BC/DR plans.