Well, one thing you can say about the approach Dan was talking about it seems that you could end up getting something that is built to your specifications as far as how the data is stored and that you have a multiple user (at least some times) capability. And you haven't gotten that from any of the other electronic multiple person based approaches. You came close with Denise's interview talking about the Act! software. One of the differences is here you can get the data storage setup to meet your requirements and the interface the way you and your people are used to seeing and accessing the information. With Act! you can't say all of that.
But it would require more of an effort on the IT department since they will be required to get a good understanding of your requirements and then they would design, build, and deploy an Access database. And they would also be expected to maintain the database. So their overhead could be either medium or high. And that's based on the amount of work they will have to expend to do this. A good thing is that MS Access is already installed on everyone's machine and you wouldn’t need to buy anything for this approach.
The above section covers some of the key lessons noted after the interview with Dan. If you have any insights in this approach or any other thoughts that you feel would enhance the lessons above remember that the built-in comments system is there for you.
Before we go to the next page take out a piece of paper and your favorite writing instrument (you should be seeing a pattern here) and see how many pros and cons that you can come up with regarding this approach.
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