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IT System in Dole Offices

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    #32
    rolion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,362 ✭✭✭rolion


    Graham wrote: »
    Perhaps if the NSA are passing they can decode your post :pac:

    Sorry for off-topic.
    Thanks Graham...your reply means you have nothing with/to/in NSA !
    You're safe. :)

    Enjoy IT !


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    #33
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    Cork24 wrote: »

    Right You have 6 Data-centers in Dublin figures,
    You have around 3 in Galway
    and 1 crap Data-Center in Cork.

    other then that the likes of EMC and Vmware have their own DataCenters.

    I just pissed on my couch :(

    Cork24, there are 6 datacenters in Citywest ALONE probably closer than 20 in Dublin (one of the largest in the world in Clondalkin)

    You're right about the one in Cork though, it's not great, but they are very much working on it.


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    #34
    CptSternn
    Registered Users Posts: 1,530 ✭✭✭CptSternn


    There are data centres in Limerick in Laois as well sure.


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    #35
    belinda502
    Registered Users Posts: 63 ✭✭belinda502


    belinda502 wrote: »
    Thanks for your comprehensive response. I am doing a project on Information Systems on an ICT Skills course. I am primarily interested in correspondence that comes into the offices. Presumably when any correspondence comes into a social welfare it has to be logged. What sort of system, presumably database is the correspondence logged into? Is it a Linux based system? Do they scan the document in, or is simply a note entered into the system that a letter was received on a particular date. Whenever I have been into the office, they seem to hold large hard copy files for clients.

    I have enjoyed reading the entertaining discussion about servers and different data storage facilities but could anyone answer my query above about what physically happens when hard copy data comes into dole offices.


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    #36
    eddiehen
    Registered Users Posts: 155 ✭✭eddiehen


    belinda502 wrote: »
    I have enjoyed reading the entertaining discussion about servers and different data storage facilities but could anyone answer my query above about what physically happens when hard copy data comes into dole offices.

    I'm afraid it's more than likely as simple as "open envelope, stamp to say received, stick it in the file with all the rest".

    There is a huge modernisation project being undertaken there over the last few years, what with electronic signing, etc but as far as hard copy info coming into the offices, there is no large scale IT system in place, it's still logged manually. There are a range of online services they offer (like signing off, registering a claim) but the old paper-trail won't be forgotten there any time soon.


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    #37
    TheBoffin
    Registered Users Posts: 434 ✭✭TheBoffin


    I'm afraid it's more than likely as simple as "open envelope, stamp to say received, stick it in the file with all the rest".

    +1


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    #38
    belinda502
    Registered Users Posts: 63 ✭✭belinda502


    Thanks Eddiehen - the brave new world hopefully once day will involve some sort of scanning system unless paper is bypassed altogether - you can't contact local offices directly currently by email as far as I am aware so that's probably quite some while away.


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