When a proposed new road or railway is likely to have an impact on the surrounding environment, experts from infrastructure consultancy Halcrow are frequently called in by government organisations, international funding agencies and private companies to assess the extent of that impact and to carry out public consultations, among other tasks. Such activities create a sprawling mass of documents, reports and data that must be archived and stored for long periods of time across a network of 30 UK offices. Not only that, but the information must be regularly backed up, a process which, until recently, was conducted regularly and separately in each of those offices, says Anand Patel, management information systems (MIS) technology deployment manager at Halcrow.
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