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In the Database Awards contest held by the technical journals Computerwoche and CIO, a fecher project has been awarded first place as "Germany's Best Database Project 2010". In a database porting project implemented for the "Landesbetrieb Hessen-Forst" (German State of Hesse, Agency for Forestry), comprised of 41 forestry offices and around 440 forest management areas, a more forward-looking operating platform was to be created for the central application for timber inventory compilation and marketing but also to minimize the maintenance efforts and expenses required. To achieve this goal, the migration experts consolidated 94 different Gupta databases into a single Oracle instance. The jury was particularly impressed that the entire project had not only been completed on time, the costs were significantly lower than budgeted.

"This project serves as an excellent example of what a committed path to a central database should look like and the advantages it provides. Particularly remarkable, as there was a simultaneous introduction of single sign-on, round-the-clock operations and a geo-information system", stated the five-person jury's official reasoning. The jury emphasized that the project's progression, the migration process and the operation of the solution itself all exceeded the client's expectations. The fecher project was not only completed within the targeted timeframe, it was completed for nearly 10% less than the budgeted amount.