Dog's Best Friend Working with volunteers from The Shelter Connection, the Town of North Hempstead Animal Shelter has become the first municipal shelter to use the DogMatch software. According to Max Wright, the database engineer who designed and developed DogMatch, a lot of dogs are already adopted through the Web, proving the public's willingness to use the Internet as an adoption vehicle. But other Web-based adoption services have rudimentary database technology, which limits their effectiveness. Our approach fits better with the adoption process. Using these requirements, the system then returns photos of potential adoption candidates, along with information about their backgrounds.
Users can enter zip codes to look for dogs in designated geographic areas.
And by offering their e-mail address, potential adopters can be notified as new animals are brought in that match their profile. Our goal is to significantly reduce the number of shelter inmates and the catastrophic death toll associated with these loving animals. As a database engineer with more than 20 years of IT consulting experience, Wright has been involved with many large data warehouses that were built using Information Builders technology. Today, as president of Arisoft, one of Information Builders' InfoElite partners, he is leveraging his experience to create an industrial-strength data warehouse for dog adoptions on a national scale. They use the software to enter data about the animals in their shelters, building up a valuable database of information on their local computers.