Twenty-nine local councils, hundreds of points of vulnerability, huge costs of records management, 152 media and file types, and one solution.
The Australian state of Tasmania moved from water and sewerage services being managed by 29 local councils to 3 regional authorities.
Two hundred years of water and sewerage records were stored on paper, film, aperture cards, CAD files, word documents, Lotus 123 spread sheets, emails, and 144 other forms of information storage in hundreds of locations.
Records covering hundreds of thousands of connections, 68,401 square kilometres of land mass, and millions of kilometres of infrastructure are now accessible in future proof file types that are searchable and immediately available. That is a revolution.