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A multinational corporation, \"Global Harmony Enterprises,\" with offices in Beijing, New York, and London, is consolidating its global information systems. Historically, the Beijing office has used a mix of Wade-Giles and Pinyin for romanizing Chinese names and locations in its customer database. The New York office primarily uses a simplified, in-house romanization system developed before the widespread adoption of ISO 7098:2015. The London office, acquired more recently, uses Pinyin but with inconsistent tone marking. As the IT department begins to integrate these disparate systems, significant data inconsistencies and searchability issues arise. The head of IT, Anya Sharma, needs to propose a solution that adheres to ISO 7098:2015 while minimizing data loss and disruption to daily operations. Considering the historical context, the need for standardization, and the practical challenges of migrating existing data, which of the following approaches would be the MOST effective in addressing the romanization inconsistencies across Global Harmony Enterprises\' information systems, ensuring long-term compliance with ISO 7098:2015, and maintaining data integrity and searchability?
Implement a phased migration to Pinyin as the standard romanization system, developing a mapping system to convert existing data from Wade-Giles and the in-house system to Pinyin, and providing training to employees on the new standard and the use of tone marks.
Mandate the immediate adoption of Pinyin across all offices, deleting any records that cannot be automatically converted, and relying on employees to manually correct any remaining inconsistencies as they encounter them.
Maintain all three romanization systems (Wade-Giles, Pinyin, and the in-house system) within the integrated database, tagging each record with its corresponding system and instructing users to search using all three systems to ensure comprehensive results.
Adopt a simplified romanization system that ignores tone marks and simplifies complex sounds, arguing that this approach is easier for non-Chinese speakers and reduces the potential for errors during data entry.

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