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Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 14:30:17 -0700
From: "John Kanagaraj" <john.kanagaraj@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Oracle - MS Access - Does your company have a policy about local vs. centralized data storage? (Perhaps a bit off topic?)
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> two realities are identical. In the case of this company revenues were being
> misreported as well but to the downside and the company took it in stride,
> many of the division chiefs were very upset and it took a long time to
> convince them that the warehouse was correct but we spun it to them saying
> profits were actually higher as percentage as they now had a smaller

Financial data being misreported is a serious offense for SOX-audited
companies. This in itself should force your users to move off
Access/Excel to an auditable reporting platform such as Oracle.

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