Practicum 2: Day 4

Today was a fairly relaxed day, but I got involved in some interesting activity related to the company's document management system, or as they call it, the DM. It's a really interesting bit of technology, and while I'm still not exactly sure how it's achieved, I understand the basis of how it functions. You see, with over 150 employees, all trying to access documents, things get complicated as far as organization goes. To streamline things and to better prevent disaster, the DM is used. How it functions is that all files are kept in one place on the network. When someone tries to access that file, they are actually "checking out" the file, like they're renting a movie from a video rental store. When they're done with it, it's checked back in. There's also a record kept for each file, so they know when it's checked in and out, and who accessed it. That way, if disaster strikes, they know when in their backups they should retrieve the file.