How have we been helping?

Work continues with NDA Computing Pty Ltd (NDA) to complete the Dept of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Infectious Diseases database. The new system was put on hold for a while when DHHS had "all hands on deck" for the Swine Flu outbreak. It is now back on track and progressing well. We are currently working out some of the workflow bugs and will then be importing the historical data to bring the system up to date and ready for some real testing. This system interfaces with a national database for infectious disease control.

The Tasmanian Dairy Industry Authority's Licensing system had some changes rolled out at the start of the month, to help keep track of herd numbers. This was done in anticipation of changes to the legislation regarding herd effluent management and future farm audit requirements.

The big one for this month was Agvita Analytical Pty Ltd's new premises (congratulations) and analysis equipment. We integrated the two new analysis machines output results (CVS and MDB file formats) with the existing reporting database (MS SQL Server 2005). This now adds Total Nitrate, Total Carbon, Carbon/Nitrate Ratio to their mix of reportable nutrients/elements for plant, soil and water analysis. Agvita is a real success story for Tasmania and the future looks bright.

Lenah Game and Gourmet rate a mention with 10 CDs being cut for Version 2 of the Carcass Rejection Monitoring system. It looks like this may end up as a web based application with emails being automatically sent when rejection conditions are met. Network/Internet based applications are the future and you may have heard that Microsoft and Telstra have partnered to offer an online applications suite called T-Suite.

With the elections drawing near, we had the opportunity to help one political party re-establish access to their contacts database. A key member of staff who had developed and maintained the database left the organisation and of course, so did their knowledge. So now you know who to thank when you get those political flyers in the mail.

As you can see, life has not been boring and work continues on getting the message so that we can help others. The lead up to Christmas looks good with quotes out to Tasmania Police and the New Horizon Club.

If I don't see you before hand, have a great Christmas and New Year.

Best regards, Jeff Garner. Senior Consultant.