Case Study
Israel Ministry of Education
1 About Suramericana The Israeli Ministry of Education is located in Jerusalem, the country's capital, but its IT facilities are spread over several locations. Like the student body it serves, the Ministry's database development is in constant motion, with changes being continuously implemented. The Ministry's IT managers were concerned by their lack of control over database changes, and by the different database versions that coexisted among its various facilities. They couldn’t precisely track who was doing what, when and why to its schema and contents. It was impossible for all of the developers in the Ministry to work together in complete synchronization. Further, the Ministry never knew