Business Strategy: How to Evaluate New Software Systems for Your Organization
Many companies augment their formal systems and databases with home-grown databases, especially lists of various types held in multiple Excel worksheets belonging to multiple staff members. In most cases, these subterranean databases are unknown to other staffers, even though the databases may be posted to a company intranet. In almost every case, these personal databases are not tied into the formal software. (The term “database” is used loosely here to define any collection of data that provides information to a user, however simple or complex.) Typically, home-grown databases are often functionally duplicated across the business. We have had clients, for instance, where the personnel head count has been exceeded by the number of separate databases. The result is usually highly inefficient, often dangerously insecure systems.
- Companies:
- Cross River Publishing Consultants
- People:
- Linda Garfinkel
- Thomas Woll