[thelist] information reporting solution >> your thoughts?

[Paul Bennett]

Hi there, I am working completing a feasibility study for a government 
organisation (social work) which has a variety of information reporting 
needs.
They currently have a crude paper-based time sheeting 'system', a 
paper-based client information system, and an Access db based client 
database system (government mandated - can't touch or change this sorry).

They want to be able to:

   1. provide statistical reports to a board of trustess to show
      organisational prgress (mainly in terms of assisting clients)
   2. know how and where staff are spending their time (currently the
      paper-base system is not well supported)
   3. order cleint data efficiently and effectively (files have been
      lost / misplaced / duplicated in the past)

They have a central domain server for their internal network (windows 
2000 I think), and I am proposing to install a timesheeting web 
application (intra, not inter-net), a client file management app 
(browser based) and some scripting to process the .mdb files and produce 
printable html reports.

In the process of doing this, I was wondering if any Evolters had any 
other / different suggestions?

Paul