Behalf Of Mark Johnson
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 10:05 PM
To: U2 Users Discussion List
Subject: Conversions
Does anyone have a short paper on the care and feeding of both the company
and its employees during a conversion/migration from one system to another.
I'm facilitating a migration from
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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Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: Conversions
> 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
bject: Re: Conversions
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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Subject: RE: Conversions
Mark -- I don't have experience with Great Plains, but can definitely
sympathize with your situation. I have been on
In a message dated 4/2/2004 10:06:39 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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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 tack
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.
On Apr 2, 2004, at 10:10 PM, Results wrote:
Please IGNORE last post. It was meant to be private. I was meant to be
asleep.
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
>asleep.
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>Sincerely,
> Charles Barouch
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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
o:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Johnson
>Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 8:05 PM
>To: U2 Users Discussion List
>Subject: Conversions
>
>
>Does anyone have a short paper on the care and feeding of both
>the company and its employees during a conversion/migration
>from one sy
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
Does anyone have a short paper on the care and feeding of both the company and its
employees during a conversion/migration from one system to another.
I'm facilitating a migration from MV/Results/Primac to Great Plains and it is a very
large mismatch. GP seems to be shopping-cart oriented and Re
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Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 21:17:11 -0600
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Universe Date Conversions Using the SQL.B.INTDATE
> I've been trying to get a date conversion to work for data being inserted
> into a SQL/Server table with no success. When I use the SQL.
I've been trying to get a date conversion to work for data being inserted
into a SQL/Server table with no success. When I use the SQL.B.INTDATE and
SQL.DATE parameters in the SQLBindParameter statement, I get the following
error:
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