SIDO SME Database Management System with LibreBase
Introduction The Small Industries Development Organization (SIDO) offices in Tanzania would like to develop a computerized SME database to better serve their clientele in their regions. As a result the Canadian Executive Service Organization (CESO) has initiated two assignments for the SIDO offices in Mara and Arusha regions with a Canadian Volunteer Advisor (VA) specialist Augusto Ribeiro. Based on experience with copyright issues with unlicensed software applications the VA proposes the use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for the project. The software is LibreOffice Base from the Document Foundation established in Germany with support globally. LibreOffice is a powerful office application that can replace Microsoft Office and it runs on multiple operating systems including Windows, Linux and Apple based systems. It supports both open document formats odt, ods, odp, and Microsoft office file formats like doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx, etc. For more information on the Doc...