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TAD is a web-based database, produced by a company called EPC, which was designed to store all our brochure based data. It is updated on a continual basis which means it is always up to date and accurate as it holds the latest information concerning tour-itineraries, hotels, extensions, text etc. It is then downloaded to the designers who output to Quark. As each edition is produced we store an archive of the previous database.

Of equal importance is that it also directly powers our Archers and Cosmos websites for searches etc. In this way we avoid having to duplicate inputting/outputting and maintain total accuracy.

The development although complicated went extremely smoothly and it has proved to be very successful and a major step forward for us. We now wish to develop it to the next stage and see if we can use TAD to improve and semi-automate our documentation process. We are intending to significantly improve the quality of what we send out to customers and ease the internal work burden which is totally manual.

Ali Naqvi
Marketing Director
Cosmos Tourama & Archers Direct