I had an experience identical to this. One of my favorite clients (to remain nameless) tried to move from a home grown system (developed on McDonald Douglass, and migrated to UniVerse on a variety of platforms) onto Great Plains (which we eventually called "Great Pains").
Used their "Front-Office/Back-Office" solution with FRX for GL, and Fascor for warehouse. In summary... Data conversion was miserable. One MV programmer (myself) kept a whole team of SQL data experts busy with data. Once the data was finally scrubbed, applications tested, they flipped the almighty switch. Integration failed miserably. Orders were taking anywhere from 15 to 60 seconds PER RECORD to move from one system to another. The integration would bomb and duplicate sales orders would be generated causing double shipping with no record of the event happening. After a year of arguing with the system and making every attempt to make it work, they went back to their UV system. My understanding is that the total loss due to the tech side alone was over 2 mil. This doesn't even begin to touch the cost of lost merchandise, lost customers, lost sales, etc. The only thing we got out of the exercise was "wouldn't it be cool if we could get this report out of our UV system", which, for many of the requests, was done easily. Oh, I left out the fact that prior to conversion to GP, the entire shop was running on a single HP Net server, dual 66 MHz processors, 5GB HDD space. (no those numbers are not typo's). The GP system was installed on 5 state-of-the-art servers, running dual 1 GHz or better processors, 4-16 GB memory, etc. The GP solution was a snail compared to the old UV. When moving back, we did put UV on one of the nice new servers. Was amazing how fast it ran! Moral? Maybe what you got ain't so bad? Maybe a clean up and some new screens would be cheaper? Maybe even new hardware? Thanks, --Glenn. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Johnson Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 2:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [U2] Companies going belly up converting from PICK/MV I must add my 2 cents to this MV migration thing. One of my main clients just finished a year-long conversion from Results to Great Plains. GP is basically QuickBooks on steroids compared to Results. Nice screens and lots of helper screens. But basically a mis-match on fields and functionality. (Results is akin to SHIMS and PRIMAC) <<snip>> my 2 cents. ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.u2ug.org/listinfo/u2-users ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.u2ug.org/listinfo/u2-users
