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... but then the next paragraph paints a different pictuere, """ It found that the “siloed nature” of the Lotus Notes databases made it difficult for officers
by ekovarski 8y ago
... but then the next paragraph paints a different pictuere,
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It found that the “siloed nature” of the Lotus Notes databases made it difficult for officers to match, verify or search for information. It also found that various systems may contain conflicting information about the same case, or may not reflect the most complete information. Downloading or querying data is made “difficult, if not impossible” because it isn’t inputted in a standard way across databases.
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The contract was awarded to the initial company that built out the holistic platform in 1996 so you've got to wonder how much it has cost them over the last 22yrs.
- MrEfficiency 8y agoThis kind of legacy stuff makes my stomach turn.
- megaman22 8y agoCalling this a "system" or "platform" is probably being very generous. It sounds like a very loosely related glom of Domino databases that grew up organically, probably with a little custom UI sprinkled on top. Notes can be infamous for that kind of thing, worse than Excel even, since it is more powerful...
- ekovarski 8y agoMost definitely - the systems apparently "talk to each other" throughout the day whatever that may mean in their case.
- scarface74 8y agoI once worked for a company where the software that ran thier back end was written in Powerbuilder by contractors in 1999. The two developers who were there had been there for 20 years supporting the system and writing stored procedures.