Over the last several years environmental regulations have proliferated ata pace similar to the explosive growth of micro-computing. The new desktop computing power has encouraged compliance soltuions developed in-house using PC based database tools. The result has often been numerous internally developed applications scattered throughout the company, managed or supported by personnel unfaciliar with the underlying principles of the original software. Each individual database may contain redundant and sometimes conflicting data. Expertise on these systems is often not transferable to the next system and may be lost as staff is promoted, transferred, or downsized.
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