The Ohio Historic Preservation Office 

 

The Ohio Historic Preservation Office

"We have been nothing but pleased with how straightforward and trouble free it has been to integrate Pervasive.SQL 2000 with our data automation program. We feel Pervasive.SQL 2000 will support our applications very well as we expand beyond internal operations."
-Todd Tucky
Computer Systems Manger, Ohio Historic Preservation Office

"By integrating Pervasive.SQL 2000 and PowerVista Bridge, we not only established our data automation program within budget, but we met or exceeded every capability necessary to accomplish our goals."
-Todd Tucky
Computer Systems Manger, Ohio Historic Preservation Office

The Ohio Historic Preservation Office: The Official State of Ohio Preservation Agency

About The Ohio Historic Preservation Office
Established in 1967, the Ohio Historic Preservation Office—a division of the Ohio Historical Society—is Ohio's official historic preservation agency. Ohio's non-profit historical agency is challenged with keeping track of enormous amounts of data, providing rapid and reliable information access and keeping pace with rapidly changing technology—all while working within limited IT budgets. At the Ohio Historic Preservation Office, IT staff face the challenge of managing the state's significant cultural and historic resource databases. The Preservation Office's database-intensive software applications include detailed descriptions of more than 90,000 buildings, 3,500 National Register properties, 33,000 archeological sites and more than 6,700 archeological reports. Ultimately, more than 10 million individual pieces of information must be maintained and made available to staff members and general-public users.

Business Challenge
Select a database platform that can support the Ohio Historic Preservation Office's current software applications and is able to grow to meet future information management demands.

Pervasive.SQL 2000 Solution
The divisions of the Ohio Historical Society had used a wide range of database and development tools, including Microsoft Access and Oracle8. However, the Preservation Office's IT department wanted to standardize on a single database platform that would meet the agency's diverse needs while allowing room for future growth. After careful consideration, evaluation and testing, the IT staff selected the combination of Pervasive.SQL 2000 and PowerVista Bridge as the tools of choice for developing, implementing and maintaining the agency's data automation program.

The Ohio Historic Preservation Office chose Pervasive.SQL 2000 in part because its ODBC connectivity with PowerVista Bridge was superior to that of Oracle8. In addition, Pervasive.SQL 2000 offered better ease of administration, price/performance and flexibility than Oracle8. Pervasive.SQL 2000 offers both transactional and relational database access, low total-cost-of-ownership (TCO), and the benefits of scalability and zero-administration. It was also a good fit for the non-profit agency's budget constraints.

Bottom Line
The Pervasive.SQL 2000 database proved to be a better choice than Oracle8 for the Ohio Historic Preservation Office's information management needs because it enabled more efficient connectivity with PowerVista Bridge.

For more information call 1.800.287.4383, or visit the Pervasive web site at www.pervasive.com. In addition, visit PowerVista Software at www.powervista.com and the Ohio Historical Society at www.ohiohistory.org.