The document discusses challenges faced by the Northwestern Memorial Foundation database team prior to implementing automation solutions. It summarizes key issues such as:
1) Managing duplicates was extremely time-consuming, with an estimated 16,500 duplicates that would take over 2 years to merge manually.
2) Event registration and participant management for 31 events was inefficient, taking over 1 minute to complete basic tasks.
3) List management was difficult with separate spreadsheets, slowing gift entry and analysis.
4) Lack of profiling made affinity-based engagement and predictive modeling impossible.
5) Data was segmented in silos, leading to duplicated efforts and inconsistencies.
The document argues that implementing Omatic automation