In Cumbria we are currently in the middle of migrating between office
management systems, the old system (Officepower-if anyone is familiar with
that?) is being gradually phased out and will cease working in March/April
2003. Ways have already been found to replace our communciations function
using Microsoft Outlook but little thought has been given to
data/information management.
At the Records Centre we have several huge databases covering accessions
and locations, that we are currently having difficulty converting but the
main problem is finding a suitable db management system - that must be
relational with an advanced search mechanism. The problem that we have is
that the authority does not take a uniform approach to information
management with different departments using diiferent methods and
software.
Obviously information management is paramount to our unit and I was
wondering if anyone has any experience of any suitable systems or has any
suggestions?
thanks
Claire
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