Effectively Populate the Database. Once you are ready to begin your asset tracking work, you need to have decided how you are going to populate the asset information into the central database. Some customers have their assets in another software application, on a spreadsheet, or on sheets of paper. If you have the data in an electronic form, it is usually best to import that into CG4 and then polish the data from there. If you do not have any electronic data, then adding all the assets manually using the web screens or the handheld scanners will be a good idea for you. Some people think that the quality of their existing data is poor and that they would like to enter everything from scratch. If you are able to start with some data and improve it, at the end of your initial asset tracking effort, it will usually be less effort than if you added them all from scratch.