1. You have a new Business Register – Now What
You have a new Business Register – Now What? Presented to International Roundtable on Business Survey Frames– Wiesbaden Group on Business Registers
Eddie Salyers

2. Background
New Business Register Fall 2002
Complete Redesign
Oracle

3. Expanded and New Work Quality Assurance User Support and Training
“Re” redesign
System Upgrades
Security
New Functionality

4. Quality Assurance Most at time of update New Register
Administrative Records prior to loading
Survey data at data capture
Edits to check for inconsistencies
New Register
Compare old to new
Validate all links
Month to Month Comparisons

5. User Support Business Register User’s Group
The Business Register Users Group (BRUG) is a forum that provides opportunities to:
Inquire about the content and structure of the Business Register.
Get answers to processing and sampling issues related to Business Register data.
Gain access to the latest Business Register enhancements.

6. User Support Business Register User’s Group Objectives Educate Inform
Explore
Communicate

7. User Support Training Fundamentals 2 Days BR Roles and uses
Concepts and definitions
Company Structure
Administrative Records
Economic Census and Company Organization Survey

8. User Support Training Interactive System New Routines New Staff 1 Day
Classes of 1 to 15 as requested
Hands on
New Routines
New Staff

9. Re-redesign Modifications based on initial production Issues
Complexity
Performance

10. Re-redesign Proposed fixes Simplify structure of links
Links tables designed to identify all possible combinations resulting in flexible but complex system
Simplified structure based on how links actually used
Change required updates to hundreds of software routines
Project approved but discontinued due to lack of time

11. Re-redesign Proposed fixes Denormalize
Denormalization is the process of attempting to optimize the performance of a database by adding redundant data. (Wikipedia)
Combine data frequently used in searches to improve performance
Project Completed Successfully
Search time decreased from 10 minutes to seconds

12. System Upgrades Old system “frozen” Oracle
Frequent updates
Many include security patches
Conversion from VMS to Linux/Blade
Time consuming / unexpected problems

13. Security New security requirements VA lost laptop
Removal of all SSNs from BR

14. New Functionality Planned development not completed
Creating multiple establishment companies
Large Company Review tools
New demands / opportunities
Company reporting summary
Summary of locations by industry

15. Conclusion User support critical to success and challenging QA
New opportunities for software tools
New demands
Security
Technology

16. Conclusion New system paid off More efficient processing
Better customer service
New development opportunities available
Improved usability