Choosing a database for your organisation
Created: May 29, 2023 at 2:16 PM | Updated: February 25, 2025 | By NZ Navigator Trust
It's not something that organisations have to do very often, but when it's time to choose and implement a new database you need to have a robust plan in place for your project!
Datawise London have created a great How-To-Guide that clearly sets out seven steps to take to choose a database for your organisation.
You won't get a definitive answer about 'the best database to buy' - around 50% of the work of implementing a database has to happen before you consider which database you should choose.
What this guide does is step you through a process to clarify what you want a database to do and how it will fit with your current ways of working.
The seven stages are:
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- Scope - Taking stock - what have we currently got?
- Plan - how are we going to approach it?
- Specify - what do we need the database to do?
- Select - which database should we choose?
- Prepare - get everything ready
- Test and train - put it to the test
- Implement - use it everyday
Each of the stages has practical templates to help you through the process.
