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Use of phase I (Jul 93 - Mar 94): Phase I conversion

'They then introduced it, the only trouble was it was actually unworkable at that time for all sorts of reasons. One of the things that we hadn't thought about, and again it comes down to testing, is that, we downloaded ... most of the data off Q&A ... we did this Q&A download after I'd cleaned up some of the database and it was dropped in. And let's say 75% of the data was downloaded the rest failed the download for whatever reason. ... there was in my view at that stage an insufficent check on the quality of the download because for example we insure Lucas and Lucas had an MDBI programme so there was a separate record for each MD policy and a separate record for every BI policy. The download changed them all into MD. ...

So there were these things that went in totally inaccurately and we decided that we'd keep the status as it was on Q&A but once it was live the database, the way it was written, which was the way we wanted it written, prohibited you changing some of these things. So because it was live you couldn't change the policy class. So we had to get them to change the status on everything.'

X071 page 004.02 (tape 02.1.05) Keith Notes/Tape 20/01/95

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