"Owain" wrote in message
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"Ric" wrote
| What may happen is that teh new systems will need to have the
| old data rolled onto them. Its quite a job really. Especially
| if its a new software system they are using.
| Yes, but as part of the development of the new system, processes
| to amalgamate the old data will be incorporated. It wouldn't be
| a case of a thousand monkeys copying all the data from one screen
| to another - it would programmatically be transferred from the
| old database and really shoudn't take very long.

It depends on how old their existing computer system is and how easy it is
to get the data off it in a form intelligible by the new system. Sometimes
it is cheaper and quicker to use skilled data preparation personnel. I
once
worked in a toffee factory for three weeks retyping last year's copy
invoices into next year's accounts system.

Ah, but did the toffee factory cease production while you were doing this?
Or was their changoever managed in such a way that productivity would not be
affected?