An operational system is a term used in

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to refer to a system that is used to process the day-to-day transactions of an organization. These systems are designed in a manner that processing of day-to-day transactions is performed efficiently and the integrity of the transactional data is preserved.

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Sometimes operational systems are referred to as operational databases,

transaction processing system A transaction processing system (TPS) is a computer software, software system, or software/computer hardware, hardware combination, that supports transaction processing. History The first transaction processing system was Sabre (computer system), ...

s, or

online transaction processing Online transaction processing (OLTP) is a type of database system used in transaction-oriented applications, such as many operational systems. "Online" refers to the fact that such systems are expected to respond to user requests and process them i ...

systems (OLTP). However, the use of the last two terms as synonyms may be confusing, because operational systems can be

batch processing Computerized batch processing is a method of running software programs called jobs in batches automatically. While users are required to submit the jobs, no other interaction by the user is required to process the batch. Batches may automatically ...

systems as well. Any enterprise must necessarily maintain a lot of data about its operation.

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