A system and method for distributed database data and file access and
retrieval, and managing assets of a company can include the steps of
obtaining one or more data elements, storing each of the data elements,
determining one or more factors related to a manner in which each of the
data elements was obtained, associating a confidence index with each
factor, and calculating a confidence index for each of the stored data
elements, as well as a composite confidence index for the entire data
store, based on the confidence index score for the individual data
elements. The system and method can include calculating a confidence
index for each of the stored data elements. The factors can include the
date that the data elements were obtained. The factors can include from
which of one or more sources the data elements were obtained.