These PowerPoint slides from an online training present best practices, processes, and tips for caring for your organization’s data.

The goal of the attached questionnaire is to discover as much as possible about your client's capacity and information management needs before the first meeting. his questionnaire consists of the following sections:

Attached is a comprehensive Needs Assessment Questionnaire to be filled out either by or with your Client.

Documenting Processes

Goal

Within each program area, to understand the tasks involved for each project involved, including information tracked, reported and any improvements necessary.The goal for this next meeting is for each db committee member to describe at least half of the programs/projects.

Purpose

Views and Reports are the outputs of a database system. Any requirements an organization has to retrieve data from an information management system is considered a view or report. A report typically refers to a formatted view of the data developed for distribution to others (such as printing for meetings). A view is a more expansive category that includes any look at the data (flipping through database screens to find contact information is a view for instance).