The program is Fast, the sales team is Furious, and their data is definitely not Expendable
On Call It’s been a bit of a week hasn’t it? Grab yourself a biscuit and settle down for another story from a brave Register reader who was only trying to help. Welcome to On Call. Today’s tale is from a reader Regomised as «Paul» and concerns his days as a programmer at a manufacturing plant in England. This was in the time of Windows 7, and Paul was an apprentice coder, keen to wedge his foot in the door of application development. «I was tasked with developing a simple application for the Sales department,» he told us. «This application would simplify the act of moving folders full of customer manufacturing data from the salesperson’s Windows desktop to one of two network drives and folder trees for each customer and job number.» The current process was manual, time-consuming, and prone to error. With Paul’s whizzy new application, all the salesperson needed to do was to point the app at the folders on their desktop. Processing would happen and data would be available to the engineers to do engineer-type stuff as well as being purged from the salesperson’s PC. Simple enough – just a bit of file transfer.
