1. What effort is required to initially build (design, implement, and populate with data) a database in your corporate databases (resources to include dollar costs or people hours and the database managements software.

2. What effort is required to maintain the data by database analysts or managers or the functions performed by the database analysts (DBA) in your corporation.

Quantitative metrics are the most helpful, i.e. cost to design and implement, time frame from design to implementation, cost per man-hour to maintain, man hours spent maintaining per week, etc.