Technik

Yeah, but in this case it really is idiotic. They are receiving data via some communication line from the sub, are manually typing it in excel and then are manually loading it into a mapping software. And then they are telling the contractor, who is proposing to use automatic, standard software for that, which is available on the market, to shut up and that they want to develop their own system, which they then proceed do don't develop. That might also be common, but is far away from best practices. Just writing the text message contents to CSV and importing that via cron would have been easier.