I had a client that attempted just what you are doing. After 2 years, and a
little over 2 million dollars spent, they went back to their home grown
UniVerse system. I will not go into the gorey details of the nightmare, but
will summarize with this: limited customization, double billing, double
To answer the other questions:
I would gain ODBC access with MS Access to the Invoice Header/Line Tables,
Customer and Product Tables. I would maintain in Access a table of those
Invoices already converted. I would then create a CSV export of the new
Invoices and current Customer/Product tables an
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> Mark,
> Technically Overview:
>Using some sort of a schedule, you identify new and modified data
> on the Great Pl
Mark,
Technically Overview:
Using some sort of a schedule, you identify new and modified data
on the Great Plains system, and move just that data to the MV system,
converting the layout and data.
That leaves you with the following discreet tasks:
How do you identify new or mod
This sounds very tempting, using MV as a data warehouse to a non-MV (or MV)
primary application. Does anyone else have any insight on how this flies,
management-wise or technically.
I like it as all of the original reports are already written and tested and
it keeps the customer a MV customer.
Th
Hi Mark
I have one client that uses Great Plains. Although an old version I
felt that the system was not as aligned to the work flow as many PICK
systems are. There was also a trap similar to the old spreasheets in
the report generator, where the calculations are directional ir verticle
or horiz
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Thanks to all who have provide some good ideas. The conversion has occurred
and is in the growing pains. Still a mistmatch but there's no going back.
Perhaps I'll take this approach to learn Crystal Reports or MS Access
reports. There are many previous reports and
Mark,
Tell them you are re-purposing the old MV system as a data warehouse
as a cost savings measure. That they'll understand and hopefully
appreciate. Then do what you suggested:
One strange thought occurred to me that may not fly. Export all the
sales/customer/product data back to the MV sy
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Mark -- I don't have experience with Great Plains, but can definitely
sympathize with your situation. I have been on
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> Tony,
> Stupid question... If you and I built a company which was strictly
>
Hey my name's not Tony but if there's money involved you can call me anything
you want.
Will
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Mark -- I don't have experience with Great Plains, but can definitely
sympathize with your situation. I have been on both the technical and
management side of such conversions.
Given that it sounds like the decision has been made, money has been spent,
and work has been done, you could tackle it
You mean to overlap with what Clifton Oliver & Associates, Information
Management Advisors offers? No. I don't think that would work. No
market. Bad idea.
When do the consulting fee wars begin?
On Apr 2, 2004, at 10:06 PM, Results wrote:
Tony,
Stupid question... If you and I built a compa
Smack him about the left side of his head, Tony. I've been using the
right side for the last couple of days on the U2UG list hosting issues.
That area is desensitized by now.
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Clif
ps. Yes. Header munging has its problems. Don't start a war again now.
Wait for the new list hosts t
Post? What post? I don't see no stinkin' post.
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Please IGNORE last post. It was meant to be private. I was meant to be
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Sincerely,
Charles Barouch
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Smooth bro. Real smooth.
Excuse us ladies and gentlemen as I escort our colleague out by his ear and
smack him around a little.
>Please IGNORE last post. It was meant to be private. I was meant to be
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>Sincerely,
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Tony,
Stupid question... If you and I built a company which was strictly
Business Process Consulting, Workflow Consulting, and Business Change
Consulting, (i.e. no direct programming) do you see a way for us to
market it successfully? It would expand our market and I believe we
could both do
You have my sympathy/empathy, and I'm sure that of many others here. I have
some thoughts that may seem common sense, but they may be worth mentioning:
Document everything.
-- Downtime
-- Delays
-- End-user complaints
-- Discussions with management and software vendors
-- Missing features, report
Mark,
As a Business Process Consultant (one of my hats), here's how I
would approach it.
1. You are already moving in the correct direction by pointing up
productivity loss, but you have to frame the argument correctly:
1. "We have implied and explicit deadlines in serving our
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