Lemme hope that a former HK employee turned Avante rep now no longer with either company wasn't involved in the roll-out ;-)
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Brutzman, Bill Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 4:56 PM To: 'u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org' Subject: RE: [U2]: Epicor While I suppose that is true that Avante is not "Tier One", Avante runs in some rather large organizations... perhaps 1000 users. Avante has quite a lot of features and functionality. I never considered Jeter to be a "heavy-weight". Thus, a more meaningful analogy would be... a luxury van to a luxury bus. Let's go Mets. --Bill -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 3:39 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2]: Epicor X-Squeeze me But comparing Avante to JD Edwards & Sap is like putting a 2.5 foot T-ball player up against Derek Jeter..its not in the same league Avante is not a tier 1 no matter how much you would like to think that its playing with the big boys... -- Debster -------------- Original message -------------- > There are a few Epicor people that do read this list. They just tend to > lay low unless the discussion effects them directly. > I can say a that there are a few people still in the Manage-2000 group > that are very good with the interfaces to U2. > From my past experience with Epicor, they are a very good company for > support, and regardless of how many developers you have, there will > always be bugs in the software that require patches. Many times these > bugs are not evident due to the fact that everyone will use the software > slightly different. > I think their long term plan is to take the many packages they have and > migrate them all into one package that is all inclusive and database > independent. Although making it database independent may be counter > productive to their plan on consolidating the software packages. > > If you look at who the other choices are for software, I'd say Epicor > is still one of the top choices. Especially when you consider the > flexibility needed in dealing in a manufacturing environment. What are > your other choices? JD Edwards? SAP? > They are also trying to focus on integrating all of their other packages > together into a complete solution. Kind of like cross selling. If you > run ERP and want CRM then they want to integrate the 2. > They have many initiatives that are good ideas, in my humble opinion, > but it will take them years to make it work. > > Jeffrey Lettau > ERP Systems Manager > polkaudio > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 12:58 PM > To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > Subject: Re: [U2]: Epicor > > Another interesting consideration is seeing no response from anyone > within > Epicor to this thread. That tells me they have little to no interest in > U2 > which is a red flag in my book. Certainly implies that they don't have > knowledgeable or extensive support for how Epicor interfaces or doesn't > with U2 in > general. > > Will Johnson > ------- > u2-users mailing list > u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > ------- > u2-users mailing list > u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
