In my own life application, I believe I could effectively use informatics to help me in my current role by utilizing databases to query for business analysis to save my company money. In my current job I am responsible for managing operation cost and finding ways to cut our outgoing spending while capitalizing our end profits. With informatics, I want to learn how to develop a system for our network that tracks our profitability and compares our operating cost in real time. This system would have to be complex but what I hope to take away from this class is a better understanding of how systems work so I can take my idea to our IT team and see if we can make my system a reality. After having worked with computers for the past three years,