Depending on your role type users may be able to bulk import data into the database. This powerful feature will assist you in getting up and running with information into the primary tables quickly. Firstly talk this over with your system administrator and if in agreement he will assist you in importing information into the required screen. The database can easily suck informaiton from a number of different formats but excel spreadsheets work particularly well. There may be some additional development work required as the number and type of fields in the database are unlikely to perfectly match the information which you have collected. It is likely that this data however will be important but some development work may be required to ensure the data can be imported in.