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Phase II (Sep 93 - Mar 94): Marine investigation

' ... we have done a review of the Marine side of X and produced a report ... the result of that report was that we need to get off the mainframe because it's completely useless, it just does not give them the information they need ... at management level to control the business. ... there are off the shelf packages that will provide a solution for the Marine business. I have got an evaluation team at the moment consisting of two of my people, this is a new team that has been formed, two full time business people and involvement from claims people, the re-insurers and so forth as well. They are virtually finished, in fact there's a presentation next Tuesday, the accounts presentation in the morning and a Marine presentation in the afternoon. ... We are recommending to go in one of the packages. Now the package that we have chosen is a client-server system, it does use a relational database but this time we haven't been as lucky with the technology but you can't expect it, it's Ingres this one. These things are separate really, they only come together at the IS level ultimately. ... '

X022 page 008.02 (tape 01.2.03) Gordan Notes/Trans/Tape 27/01/94

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