“Double Data Entry” vs “Single Data Entry”

juliarutherford
2 min readJan 27, 2017

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It has been seen over the span of our 15 years of involvement in the data entry business that customers take after the single data entry technique for their disconnected and, exceptionally for, online data entry.

While the precision for the single entry technique can go as high as 99%, yet is typically lower. This exactness may suffice for measurable data like reviews, it would not in most different cases. There is no cross checking the data entered by an administrator.

To the extent precision goes the “twofold entry” strategy, likewise called “double entry”, is ended up being the most exact (Kawado et al., 2003; Reynolds-Haertle and McBride, 1992). Exactness can be as high as 99.99%. Many reviews have been made by specialists, regarding this matter, and can be found on the net.

Online data entry

A considerable measure of the data entry work is outsourced to merchants for entry into customer end servers. The procedure utilizes high data transfer capacity web at the merchant end. At the customer end there is an electronic shape which shows the pictures and the data entry fields. Data is keyed off every picture remotely by the administrator and put away in a database dwelling in the customer end server. While this is a protected procedure since no pictures or data is downloaded to merchant organize, the exactness of the data misses the mark regarding desires.

The online frame in the customer end server could be intended to support “twofold entry”. In “twofold entry” a similar arrangement of pictures are entered by two distinct administrators. The customer end online programming could be based on the .Net stage with MS Access in the back end.

In the “twofold entry” strategy, amid the second entry, known as “confirmation”, the product coordinates the data entered, on a character level, with the data from the “principal entry”. The product shows both variants any place there is a confound between what has been already entered and is being entered now. The administrator would need to make a determination of one adaptation, in the wake of confirming with the picture. Unless the administrator clears a jumble the framework would not permit the administrator to continue assist.

The “twofold entry” strategy is a demonstrated procedure for accomplishing high exactness’s and ought to be taken after notwithstanding for online data entry. The main lacuna is outlining the product which bolsters “twofold entry”. Regularly engineers don’t know about the prerequisite so have not taken a shot at this viewpoint.

We could build up an online data entry framework which underpins “twofold entry” for a customer. The framework would pay-off if the volumes are high and data entry never-ending in nature or for a genuinely long stretch.

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