Interview Six Pros and Cons List

Here is a Pros and Cons list that has been generated by the instructors for this course and has been enhanced by input from other students.

Pros	Cons
Off-the-shelf software that could meet your needs	Additional funds would be needed to purchase licenses for all of the users (people in your group using the data and anyone who might want to generate their own reports)
You wouldn't need to deal with trying to build security or file protection procedures that the previous Excel and word-processor recommendations required	Either the funds for the hardware and software required to stand up a database server would be required or space on an existing database server would have to setup
You wouldn't need to try and get a software package (like Excel or a word-processor) setup that isn't built to hold your data	Medium level support expected for the CIO office
It is more than likely that the data structures you will and might need for your data are already covered in this software	Training is more than likely required for the group on the usage of the software
It is built to be used by multiple people at the same time so you won't have sharing or permission issues that you would have from many of the previous approaches	Additional add-on packages might need to be purchased to extend the functionality or capabilities of the base system

Remember that you have the capability to further enhance and expand this Pros and Cons list through the use of the comments section on this page.

Now you can continue on to your next interview.