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From: btheisen@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Barb Theisen)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: scheduling software
Message-ID: <1991May30.135005.2616@macc.wisc.edu>
Date: 30 May 91 13:08:42 GMT
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My company is planning to automate several administrative and operational
activites associated with the studies we run.  A major requirement of this
automation is to have software assisted scheduling.  The type of scheduling
we need is similar to resource leveling done by project management software,
but we want to be able to add intelligence and put a user interface on
the scheduling module.  Much of the data involved in the scheduling will
reside in an Ingres database.  

We have been looking for some software package that we can use.  We have
as list of requirements for such a product which (in summary) say we are
looking for something modular, open, and extendible (links to Ingres,
run under Unix).  We have been considering products in the EIS and
Project Management categories, but what we really want is a very smart
scheduling module that can be made to interface with our database.

If anyone has any ideas about products, or any advice about developing
such software (ie any notable publications I can reference or algorithms
I should look into) I can be reached via email at:

              btheisen@macc.wisc.edu

by phone at:

              Barbara Theisen, 608 241 4471


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Barbara Theisen                                btheisen@macc.wisc.edu
DBA                                            
Hazleton Wisconsin
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