He had originally said that:timvw wrote:- And exactly what makes you believe that a webapplication will deliver the reduced look-up time?
That tells me that there is no single storage medium for ALL the data, and his boss's solution is to merely synchronize employee info. My perception of syncing in this manner is just syncing all the data that is the same field, ie names, addresses, not have all the data stored in 1000 places. That would defeat his bosses entire purpose of having it in multiple excel files and access db's.when someone is trying to get some specific employee information its a problem because there is not a single place to check this information.
If you design it properly, and have all the data readily available, how does it not reduce lookup time? Besides, have it stored in multiple locations puts greater strain on a potential backup solution, whereas a single, central db can be backed up easily.