Benefits of distributed data processing to an organisation?

Distance and Location Independence: You don't have to travel to central computer to get your information needed.

Expandable (Incremental Growth): New nodes can add to network easily.

Flexible: Easier to users to get things done.

Resource Sharing: Number of nodes can have access to a printer/scanner attached to a a specific node.

Increased End User Productivity: User can log-in to a computer using his passWord and according to user name and passWord using any node withing the network

Vendor Independence: Products from different vendors can be attached to form the network

More responsive than a CDP unit.

Hope this will help you!

( H.W Thushara Indika from Bandarawela, Sri Lanka)